Ep 63: Anime Edition: Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke – Collateral Cinema Movie Podcast (SPOILERS)

Title: Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫, Mononoke-hime)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Producer: Toshio Suzuki

Writer(s): Hayao Miyazaki, Neil Gaiman (English dub)

Stars: Yōji Matsuda/Billy Crudup, Yuriko Ishida/Claire Danes, Yūko Tanaka/Minnie Driver, et al.

Release date: July 12, 1997

PROMO: Too Many Captains (@ItsaFilmPodcast)

SHOWNOTES: Hajimemashite, yōkoso, and all that weeb shit. This month, Collateral Cinema is talking anime films—and by anime films we mostly mean the pre-weeaboo era of the 80s and 90s (you know, when anime was GOOD, amirite?). And whaddya' know, this is our first Studio Ghibli movie as it happens. That's right, folks; we are exploring Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 supernatural/historical fantasy classic Princess Mononoke! While considered by many to be Miyazaki-sensei's greatest work, is Mononoke-hime (as it is known in Japan) truly "influential of an entire generation"? Ok, probably not, but this movie is dope as fuck, and it's part of what's you weebs owe your entire personality to.

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