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Princess Mononoke

When an Emishi village is attacked by a fierce demon boar, the young prince Ashitaka puts his life at stake to defend his tribe. With its dying breath, the beast curses the prince's arm, granting him demonic powers while gradually siphoning his life away. Instructed by the village elders to travel westward for a cure, Ashitaka arrives at Tatara, the Iron Town, where he finds himself embroiled in a fierce conflict: Lady Eboshi of Tatara, promoting constant deforestation, stands against Princess San and the sacred spirits of the forest, who are furious at the destruction brought by the humans. As the opposing forces of nature and mankind begin to clash in a desperate struggle for survival, Ashitaka attempts to seek harmony between the two, all the while battling the latent demon inside of him. Princess Mononoke is a tale depicting the connection of technology and nature, while showing the path to harmony that could be achieved by mutual acceptance.

Score: 8.67 out of 10
★★★★☆
Princess Mononoke: Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still you find reasons to keep living.
- Lady Eboshi
Princess Mononoke: Well, I give up. Can't win against fools.
- Jigo
Princess Mononoke: Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
- Lady Eboshi
Princess Mononoke: I'm getting a litte bored of this curse of yours Ashitaka just let me cut the damn thing off.
- Lady Eboshi
Princess Mononoke: When you're going to kill a god, let someone else do your dirty work.
- Jigo
Princess Mononoke: The trees cry out as they die, but you cannot hear them. I lie here. I listen to the pain of the forest and feel the ache of the bullet in my chest and dream of the day when I will finally crunch that gun woman's head in my jaws... She is my daughter. One of the wolf tribe. When the forest dies, so does she. I caught her human parents defiling my forest. They threw their baby at my feet as they ran away. Instead of eating her, I raised her as my own. Now my poor, ugly, beautiful daughter is neither human nor wolf.
- Moro
Princess Mononoke: Well, they say that happy women make a happy village.
- Prince Ashitaka
Princess Mononoke: These days, there are angry ghosts all around us. Dead from wars, sickness, starvation, and nobody cares. So - you say you're under a curse. So what, so's the whole damn world.
- Jigo
Princess Mononoke: Ugh! I smell like a human.
- Moro