Princess Mononoke

From the director Hayao Miyazaki, the creator of SPIRITED AWAY and PONYO, comes the masterpiece PRINCESS MONONOKE now available for the first time on Blu-ray™ in stunning high-definition.Young warrior Ashitaka receives a wound that refused to heal in a battle with a cursed beast. Searching for a remedy for the supernatural injury, he leaves his remote village for the forbidding forests of the west, where he finds a human enclave under siege from divine powers: deities of times past, the wolf gods, and San, a wild girl of the forest.The first of Miyazaki’s films to gain mainstream attention in the West, PRINCESS MONONOKE depicts the clash between the natural world and it’s old gods, and the rise of humans and the beginnings of modern civilisation. It shows three elements of the Japanese psyche warring for supremacy in an epic ecological fable of stirring mythic power. Featuring an English-language script by Neil Gaiman, author of Anansi Boys and American Gods, and vocal performances from Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Billy Crudup and Gillian Anderson, PRINCESS MONONOKE is a must-see, epic animated adventure.