Princess Mononoke - The Legend of Ashitaka 

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Wagner pissed his pants when he saw the movie and compared it to one of his operas

Eyes unclouded?! Hahahahaha 😂

That explains it. Come. I’ll show you all my secrets

seen enough

such a good line

He was a true man- in lack of better terms xD

A true mensch

I'm pretty sure that doesn't make him a badass. San is the real badass

He is just a good man

@@toogoodforaname4041 are you implying that good men aren't badasses? In the face of adversity, the individual still does a noble act and is selfless despite facing an impending doom for the greater good. Most men would turn tail, but this young man stood his ground and saved innocents that he just recently met. He's a badass in my book. San is just angry at the world because her "mother" hates humans and instilled her ideals in a baby she had pity for.

Still very relevant today

I would suggest you watch a video called "Lady Eboshi is Wrong". This movie has even more nuance than you might think. It finds empathy in all characters and sides, but still picks a side in the conflict. It's all about "seeing with eyes unclouded" through moral relativism, while still understanding how hate poisons everyone. It's a perfect movie imo vimeo.com/357117766

This is one of the most beatiful comments I ever read.

@@danielclaro6049 I may choose to watch that...but I will probably very much disagree with what’s been said. Do you realize how many lives Lady Aboshi saved! Not only was she willing to rescue women and sickly people nobody else would touch, but she accepted Ashitaka’s curse, and the wolf girl, without overtly choosing to kill either. As a dictator she is uncommonly fair.

@@danielclaro6049 imo the red nosed Hunter (I forget his name) was the only bad guy. He wanted to kill the forest god for the king and manipulated anyone he could to get it so he could be rich and happy.

And a very poetic and freaking badass line as well It sets up what not only Ashitaka’s mission is but we as the viewer see as well

That never occurred to me, and I'll see the movie differently now that you mention it.

wow

@@TheBurbyGirl In the scene where San attacks Lady Eboshi, you can hear some of the surrounding men and women yell out things like "Skin her!" and "Behead her!" further demonstrating their non-human interpretation of San. That specifically was the moment when this concept clicked for me.

And we never know, of course, her own actual name given by her parents, nor does she bc she was a baby when they abandoned her. “San” is the number three- she is Moro-no-Kimi’s third “cub”, after the two wolves, her own offspring.

That could explain why Ashitaka calling her beautiful caught her off guard

Just finished my 3rd time, I know that feel

dafuq

Having found my copy after clearing out my house, I've watched it every night since. Anyone ever seen the art book? It's beautiful.

insert "you should up those rookie numbers" meme

Holy whrn i was a kid like five or six i wanted to watch this movie everyday and i watched it everyday but then my older brother didnt watch it so i didnt watch that movie anymore but now many, many years later i have watched it again like three times and i like cry everytime cuz i remember that when i was a kid and i remember San when i was kid i fell in love with and i wanted to marry her when i grow up!

Welcome to the club

i watched almost of movies of Gibli studios anf i'm keeping this one to a special moment i'm 22 years to, and i'm preparing myself to cry

I do have a ton of nostalgia for this movie, so it's nice to hear someone from a different perspective got a lot out of it too.

This is late, but my friend and I are 21 and saw the movie for the first time today.

Best animated film of all time. still holds that title for me. wish I could experience it for the first time again. lucky you. Welcome to our fandom its timeless and fantastic

As far as traditional animation goes, they have made several of the highest grossing animated films of all times, though Disney has made many more films in total, and has more films in the higest grossing rankings.

The bad thing is that this is labeled As Otaku, and therefore people believe that it is a typical anime of these days and goes unnoticed. Ghibli Studios deserves to be among the clouds of the cinema, in a wonderful floating castle....

It's already famous as Disney. Especially when Disney went downhill in quality content.

@@lolstationvita5922 No its not, just think how, Disney destroys or consumes any company that could get more popular than them, like they did with Pixar. Ghibli does actual masterpieces as other companies, but with the kiddos of this days and all the stupidity around the internet, people just focuses in Disney's recurrent ideas and fake emotional messages instead of other Studios' movies. I hope you'll be right some day and people will stop liking the childish wonders of an impossible life that Disney is talking about to the young ones.

@@MacElMasMancoDeTodos Not until American culture significantly improves, which is never lol

SAMEEEEE

Every Miyazaki movie teach us a lesson. Since this was my favorite from shildhood, it's the best for me

True

Cultural Game Changer

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As you said this is all opinions not fact but I do agree that this is the best animated movie there is (I've not seen all of them of course but I think I've seen a good amount to say this is my favourite). I love spirited away as well of course but I do think that mononoke is better.

I couldn't event watch the beginning sequence of this movie when I was 10 why was ur children-brain so numb to violence? 😂

@@dilfhunter629 video games.

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU

@@Archibaldh1pp0 respect for responding to a dude 4 years after your original comment was posted

ginger psycho come on ! go ahead don't think to the past ! cheers from France

It is a quote from the movie, you have to watch it!

Planet Ratshit oooohhh !! sorry yes it is ! i'm french ... i did not make the relation..... i remember this scene .... 😊

Well, that explains it. Nevermind... :)

Haha, dommage, au moins l'intention était là :)

Always shall be.

@@microhomebrew *It's also my favorite, was a bit annoyed by that spirit causing a few unsanctioned deaths though*

Nausicaa is my no1 because of the manga.

@@ActuallyDeath I liked that part, actually. It is a spirit of the forest, and the forest is shown to be quite vengeful in this movie. Nature is not kind, and I do not think it would hesitate to kill a few humans.

​​@@wolfgangkolber381the humans are the killers and destroyers in the film. Everything spirits do in the film is justified, not by the film narrative but from an objective perspective

Agreed. I'm not even that much of an anime fan and Mononoke is still one of my favourite films.

Forget Ghibli, it's one of the greatest films period.

Yes! Haven't seen another animated film comparable to this one yet in my personal opinion. I mean... Well, Miyazaki's other films are pretty good too lol but for me, this one is a masterpiece.

+Seraph Fell agreed

fotakatos True😍

Is this quote from the English dub? Because in the sub version, only the first line appears in writing.

@@skyweeeeee yep.

"...Those that remained were guarded by gigantic beasts who owed their allegiances to the Great Forest Spirit. For those were the days of gods...and of demons." absolutely iconic voice acting by Keith David

+- Georyx - ths for the tip bro

+Cods Ekret You're welcome, bro

+- Georyx - Fuck yeah Pepe

+Thalles Guimarães Hell yea XD

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U need to see Manga version of Nausicaa

Ahh yep no one actually give two shits.

Bilbo Baggins Write tiny comment. People upvote tiny comment, it reaches the top. Random guy complains.

Kevin Mathewson thats how life works...

+Bilbo Baggins fuck you. Seriously. If you don't like this film you're definetily no human. It's like you would say you hate the air that you are breathing.

DerDoktor It is actually one of my favourite films of all time

Evan Marcy "The girl's life is now mine."

I thought the same

Shut up, Navi! I left so many skultullas down there... It was real scary when I was little, okay?

Pablo Griswold The hell you're talking about -_- shut up you -_- don't insult Navi like that you moron è.é

The entire series OOT onwards was inspired by this movie, if you ask me.

@@emilyrasputin Go watch Good Blood's video essay on Ocarina of Time; apart from having the best production quality of any RU-vid video i've ever seen, it also goes to show how the series and Mononoke share an underlying theme.

Mononoke was a gamble too, Disney produced it and they weren't ones to usually let the amount of blood and gore this movie had out. And it was a Gamble that paid off.

@@paladin276 Disney ain't do shit

Disney did not produce this movie. All they did was dub it to English...😂

@@oldskoolnp5512 Disney did not produce the movie, but distributed it in the US and initially was very insisting on making changes to the movie, to make it more in line with Disney princess stories and more approachable by what they believed was an average american viewer. In short, they wanted to cut some scenes and change dialogues, so characters get more clear motivations and became more easily recognisable as "good" or "bad". Ghibli did not let them cut anything, but Neil Gaiman, who was responsible for the script, had to write off some lines and add some others (although he was keeping Ghibli's side all the time, just to make it clear; he just had no choice). As a result, if you watch the movie with english dub you believe that monk Jigo was working on Emperors behalf, which is not the case, but because Americans like to blame state and government for everything bad that happens it kinda made sense in American context.

Better than anything disney has made in the past century :D

Which is even more hilarious because this just schooled Disney two years after they released Pocahontas and Princess Mononoke told that story LEAGUES better without messing with history And well, considering everything Disney touches now goes up in flames while Studio Ghibli continues to enchant generations upon generations along with many other animation studios, I think someone at Disney should see if they still have some Ghibli movies and watch those again for research on how to make a great story: simple or epic

Better than anything Disney has made

Whens the last time you had to learn about mozart in school💀

@@luke.5948 heheh true tho

They're not comparable. Mozart and Beethoven are part of a very old and compositionally complex tradition of art music, "music for its own sake," which film composers like Joe Hisaishi draw on as they compose the scores to movies like this one. Still, a lot of art music composers since the 20th century, like Dmitri Shostakovich, also composed film scores, in fact Shostakovich mostly made a living from his film scores!

@@dsch0 Of course I know that the composers compose music complete differently, these two people changed music history. In fact, they truly created music. Joe Hisaishi gets inspired by Beethoven and Mozart in a lot of his work, as he’s said so. And without them, basically most of the music we hear now, wouldn’t exist. And yes.. I understand that Joe Hisaishi is century’s ahead in music. These people literally created the music art form, I was being enthusiastic when writing this comment. And if we’re talking about schools, I do believe alongside learning Beethoven and Mozart, there’s many music artists from this generation that we learn from. I think we should learn more from composers who write film scores, because there’s many astonishing composers like Joe Hisaishi. All of Ghibli’s films are truly masterpieces, along with there music.

You do not get Hisaishi without Mozart, Beethoven and the many composers that came between then and 1997

I swear, the older I get and the more I watch this movie, the more emotional I get during it.

+Tess1061 same here!!! For me I believe it's because I can understand the themes in a deeper context than when I was a kid lol

this movie makes me hate humans

Saw it when I was just getting into anime and I fell in love with my favorite movie of all time, Spirited Away So I started researching more about Miyazaki and I realized “wait, I remember seeing Kiki’s Delivery Service when I was in Pre-K!”; little did I know I was already introduced to Miyazaki without even realizing it Then I found this masterpiece and my god, no matter how many times I’ve seen it; let alone any Studio Ghibli film by Miyazaki; I always get that feeling of wonder, adventure, beauty and so much more No matter how old I get, these movies shall continue to grow as big as a tree and age with grace for generations to come

this is so true and such a good way of phrasing it 😭 thanks for sharing a beautiful memory!

Gustavo Boschiazzo evil is hardly 'Meta'

Expelled? They fared him well on his journey to lift the curse from him. It wasn't like he was banished

@@boop99 He did got banished, its because of the law of their tribe, he can no longer go back, they were also forbidden to know what happened to him and to just accept that he is now "dead", Kaya (his former wife) said goodbye one last time knowing that he can no longer be with her and gave him a gift to remember her.

He made the choice to leave, but once he did, he was forbidden to return. The reason is probably because he could (intentionally or not) lead others back to his home and his people would be exterminated. Jigo mentions the Emishi were supposedly wiped out centuries ago, so it's implied someone would return to finish the job.

@@Someone-gj4rr bro Kaya was his sister 😂😂

do you live in an anime

It’s been five years and I don’t know if you’re still alive or if you forgot your password I’ll never know but I came to disagree

@@SolidForces no he's right

@@urarakasofia7148 NO

@@SolidForces YES.

@@SolidForces best Ghibli film I agree

I'm reading the comments and all of them are at least a year old, it's refreshing to see some new ones lol

@@emilyzhang5837 haha right

vanguardsky No. 0:00 - 5:47 , REAL best part.

@@Violett5712 👍🇲🇫

Wishing the best for you

@@AlienStorm7 ❤

​@@Worldwide-pt4vd They are in heaven now

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And he is the only character in the whole title story who have completely have stealing the show from start to finish.

It's 2023 and I'm here listening to this masterpiece 😂

Goddamn I wish I could watch this masterpiece in a theatre, you sir are very lucky

same it gives me chills

And teardrops..

in what universe is Hisaishi underrated?

@@microhomebrew I mean, in comparison. Actually, many people know about Williams and he's deeply grounded in western music culture.

@@moritzrein2907 I never heard of them, by name, but a fast google told me what they've done, which I would recognize by hearing. Hisaishi and Elfman are the only composers who's names I know.

Yes ghiblis are really amazing 😄

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