![]() ![]() Claire Danes voices the title role of the angry Mononoke Billy Crudup (“ Without Limits“) plays Ashitaka Minnie Driver is Lady Eboshi and Billy Bob Thornton voices Jigo Boh, a pragmatic monk. Ashitaka finds his mission is to facilitate peace between humans and nature.īut it’s not your run-of-the-mill cartoon actors taking on the task. Her enemy is Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolf gods who hates the human race. The journey takes him to a mining colony led by the regal Lady Eboshi, who provides for her people but is bent on destroying the forest gods, who protect the land she is trying to raze for industrial purposes. But in doing so he is cursed, and must find its cure before it kills him. The story, drawn from folklore, follows a young warrior prince named Ashitaka, who kills a demon boar in the forests of Japan. So it’s no surprise that the soft-spoken, 58-year-old filmmaker seems bewildered by not only the phenomenal success of “ Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime)” but America’s fascination with his anime films, such that Miramax plans to release “ Mononoke” with English-language dubbing on Oct. 22, 1999 - One never expects a film legend to be pulling out chairs for reporters.īut Hayao Miyazaki does, in such a quiet, unassuming way that makes him appear more banquet host than director of one of the highest-grossing films in Japan.
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