Princess Mononoke

## Princess Mononoke *Princess Mononoke* (*Mononoke Hime*) stands as one of cinema's greatest epics — a morally complex, visually stunning tale of the conflict between nature and human civilization from Hayao Miyazaki. Young Emishi warrior Ashitaka is cursed by a corrupted boar god and sets out to find a cure in the western lands. There he becomes caught between Lady Eboshi's iron-smelting Irontown — which destroys the forest to thrive — and San, a human girl raised by wolf gods who fights to protect the wilderness. The film refuses easy villains: Eboshi's town liberates outcasts and lepers even as it devastates nature; San is feral and fierce but acts from love. A meditation on industry, ecology, war, and the impossibility of simple answers.