Princess Mononoke
| Anime movie | |
|---|---|
| title | Princess Mononoke |
| Original title | も の の け 姫 |
| transcription | Mononoke Hime |
 | |
| Country of production |
 Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| Studio | Studio Ghibli |
| length | 128 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hayao Miyazaki |
| script | Hayao Miyazaki |
| production | Toshio Suzuki |
| music | Joe Hisaishi |
Princess Mononoke ( Japanese も の の け 姫 Mononoke Hime , German for "Demon Princess ") is a Japanese cartoon ( anime ) by Hayao Miyazaki and his studio Ghibli from 1997.
Like other Miyazaki films, Mononoke Hime addresses environmental degradation and the question of whether there can be a real coexistence between humans and nature. Another central theme is a criticism of how to deal with leprosy sufferers.
action
Ashitaka, the young prince of an Emishi tribe, is attacked by a deadly curse while successfully defending his village against the attack of a boar who has become a demon. In search of a cure, he travels far west and finally arrives at the home of the boar Nago, a former protector of the forest. He finds himself between the front lines of a war between the workers of an ironworks who cut down the forest and mine metals, and the animal gods and animals of the forest who defend their territory.
Ashitaka meets the girl San (Princess Mononoke) who lives with the wolves and who fights on the side of the animals. Her opponent is the power-hungry Mistress Eboshi from the Tatara clan, who wants to protect the inhabitants of the ironworks from attacks by animals and animal gods. She tries to defeat Prince Asano with the firearms manufactured in the ironworks and to expand her sphere of influence. Ashitaka tries to mediate between the parties and prevent Eboshi from killing the forest god whose head she is supposed to bring to the Tennō . The head of the forest god is rumored to confer immortality. In return, the Tennō offers Eboshi's city protection from the constant attacks of the neighboring daimyō . During a nightly attack by San, Ashitaka is fatally wounded by a shot by a villager and brought by San to the lake of the forest god, who saves his life, but does not free him from his curse.
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While the still very weak Ashitaka is being tended by San for the next few days, the mighty tribe of wild boars is preparing for a final battle with the humans to put an end to the deforestation. San decides to go into battle with the wild boars and their wolf brothers. Meanwhile, Eboshi goes with hunters into the forest to kill the forest god, who during the day has the shape of a deer with a human face. All the wild boars are killed in battle and the blind Okoto, the leader of the wild boars, is seriously injured. When San tries to take him to the forest god, Okoto collapses from his injuries. Thanks to the help of the hunters, who hide under the skins of the dead wild boars and rub their blood on their bodies, Okoto believes that his warriors have returned from the realm of the dead and are also threatened with raging demons like Nago. San, who wants to protect him, is also hit by the curse. Arrived at the lake of the forest god, the recovered Ashitaka encounters San's foster mother, the wolf goddess Moro, who, wounded by Eboshi, is dying. When Okoto arrives, he calms down again, and the forest god sucks the rest of his life from him. Eboshi tries to kill the forest god, which fails because Ashitaka is able to stop her at first. With Moro's help, he freed the unconscious San from Okoto's violence and tries to wake her up. When night falls, the forest god turns into a daidarabotchi , a kind of gigantic night walker. During this transformation, Eboshi shoots his head off. His headless body turns into a slimy substance that sucks life out of everything that comes into contact with it. The half-dead wolf goddess tears off Eboshi's right arm with the last of her strength and thereby avenges herself for the destruction of the forest. The ironworks and almost the entire forest are destroyed by the slime. Only when Ashitaka and San give the head back to the forest god, his destructive power disappears and he lets new life sprout from the remnants of the forest and the ruins of the city, although he himself loses his physical shape because he himself, although the sun is already there rose, still in the form of the nightwalker. The forest god frees Ashitaka and San from their curse.
Mistress Eboshi wants to rebuild the city, but this time, as she says herself, a “good city”. Ashitaka offers San to live in the ironworks, but she cannot yet forgive the people and so she wants to stay in the forest, but he wants to live in the ironworks so that they can visit each other frequently.
reception
International
The film, which cost 2.4 billion yen (equivalent to approx. 18.9 million euros, exchange rate date: July 1997), was released in Japanese cinemas on July 17, 1997 and played 18.65 billion yen (approx. 9 million euros, exchange rate: July 1997). He played more in Japan than, for example, James Cameron's Titanic and was the most successful film there to date. In 2001, another Miyazaki film, Spirited Away , beat this record .
The film opened in cinemas in several countries by 2002.
In Germany
The anime had its first performance in Germany on February 12, 1998 at the 48th Berlinale , as the original version with German subtitles. The regular theatrical release finally took place on April 19, 2001 after several announcements, which were later withdrawn. The distributor Buena Vista had already had an elaborate and costly German dubbing done a year before at the Hanover Expo. Since there were only 35 copies of films, pre hardly Advertising has been made and the film mainly in small, ever-changing cinemas could be seen, became Princess Mononoke mainly in Anime -Fankreisen and by word of mouth a reputation. The film had a total of around 70,000 viewers in Germany.
Princess Mononoke was initially only released on VHS in Germany (released June 13, 2002) and was not originally planned as a DVD . Due to growing pressure from the fan base , Universum Film decided to publish the first DVD version on November 3rd in 2003, which some critics consider to be very careless and only with mediocre picture and sound quality. The second edition was published on November 13, 2006 and is characterized by better picture and sound quality as well as a few extras. On April 11, 2014, a new edition of the film was also released on Blu-ray.
The German television premiere followed on December 24, 2003 on RTL II . In the meantime, the film has been shown on television a few more times (including scenes that have been cut out).
synchronization
The German dubbing took place at Lingua Film in Munich . Cornelius Frommann wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Prince Ashitaka | Yōji Matsuda | Alexander Brem |
| San / Princess Mononoke | Yuriko Ishida | Stefanie von Lerchenfeld |
| Madame Eboshi | Yūko Tanaka | Marietta Meade |
| Moro | Akihiro Miwa | Mady Rahl |
| Jiko | Kaoru Kobayashi | Mogens von Gadow |
| Gonza | Tsunehiko Kamijō | Holger Schwiers |
| Toki | Sumi Shimamoto | Claudia Lössl |
| Kouroku | Masahiko Nishimura | Claus Brockmeyer |
| Ok-koto | Hisaya Morishige | Jochen Striebeck |
| Kaya | Yuriko Ishida | Shandra Schadt |
| Nago | Makoto Saitō | Dirk Galuba |
Awards
Princess Mononoke received in 1997 at the Japanese Academy Awards the award for Best Film and the Special Award for the title song of Yoshikazu Mera . At the award ceremony of the Kinema Jumpō Prize , the film won the audience award, at the Hochi Film Awards and the Blue Ribbon Awards special prizes . At the Mainichi Eiga Concours , he was awarded the audience award as well as best animated film and best film .
The film was nominated for the Golden Satellite Award in 2000 in the category of Best Animated Film, but had to admit defeat to John Lasseter's Toy Story 2 . The film also received a nomination for Best Animated Film at the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award ceremony in 2000. Hayao Miyazaki was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Director in an animated film for the English-language version of the film . Princess Mononoke was also Japan's entry for an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category , but it was neither nominated nor awarded.
The film received further awards at various film festivals.
Reviews
“In terms of drawing and narration, it is an outstanding cartoon that further develops the tradition of Japanese anime without committing to a striking good-and-bad scheme. In some fight scenes the depiction of cruelty is too clear for younger viewers. "
“Hayao Miyazaki not only succeeds in breathtaking pictures and fast-paced action scenes, but also in multi-layered characters whose characters do not fit into the unequivocal good-bad scheme common in fairy tales. So San is by no means the morally superior heroine and Eboshi is also not just the exploitative mistress. It is precisely the breaks in the classic clichés that make these characters extremely interesting. Against the background of the war between mythical animal gods and humans, Miyazaki resorts to one of his main themes and admonishes - without sounding instructive - the peaceful coexistence between humans and animals, technology and nature. He deliberately does not do without depicting violence, but always embeds it in the context of the plot. "
“Once the viewer finds his or her way around the Far Eastern mythology and mentality, which is alien to him, when he is no longer puzzled by the laconicity with which, for example, scenes of violence are depicted, then he is compensated by a multi-faceted animation film that is not just a fairy tale with an ecological message narrated, but also has numerous subplots with ironic refraction. A black and white drawing - the "good" nature and the "bad" civilization - is avoided. Instead, all characters act according to their own logic and interests. In addition, the story is optically opulent and imaginatively implemented in the drawing of the figures. The sound design is meticulous and occasionally even allows absolute silence in the midst of the tumult of the battle. On the other hand, a minority criticized the overly loud music and the fact that the viewer found it difficult to find their way around the many myths. "
backgrounds
Due to the fact that Miyazaki's characters, set and plot were deliberately set in the Muromachi period , Mononoke Hime is also traded as an indirect representative of the Jidai-geki film genre.
The film is one of the few from Studio Ghibli that is only released from the age of twelve. Hayao Miyazaki said, “ When there is a fight, it is inevitable that blood will flow, and we cannot avoid depicting it. "(" When there is a fight, some blood is inevitably spilled, and we cannot avoid depicting it. ").
The word mononoke ( 物 の 怪 ) is not a name, but a Japanese collective term for monsters, demons, ghosts and ghosts, and (partly) synonymous with yōkai .
Guiding themes
The destruction of the environment and dealing with leprosy sufferers are the two main themes of the anime.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack composed by Joe Hisaishi is available in Japan in different versions on CD : as a normal soundtrack (released 1997 on the Tokuma Japan Communications label , in Europe with Milan ( Warner )), as an image album, in an orchestral version and in combination with the Ghibli film Spirited Away as a double CD. In Germany, the soundtrack was released by Editions Milan Music.
The theme Mononoke Hime was written by Hayao Miyazaki, composed by Joe Hisaishi and sung by the countertenor Yoshikazu Mera .
Adaptations
There is a four-volume adaptation as an anime comic that was published in Germany by Carlsen Verlag .
Popular culture
The French Blackgaze project Alcest was inspired by Princess Mononoke for her fifth studio album Kodama , released in 2016 . In this, the musicians also take up the conflict between nature and humanity.
Web links
- Princess Mononoke in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Princess Mononoke atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Comparison of the cut versions RTL 2 Afternoon - FSK 12 of Princess Mononoke at Schnittberichte.com
- Ghibli Wiki - Wiki with further information and explanations about the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ EUR / JPY Historical Data , on www.investing.com.
- ↑ The movie releases review of Princess Mononoke. In: Filmstarts.de. Retrieved November 14, 2012 .
- ↑ Princess Mononoke [VHS]. In: Amazon.de. Amazon EU Sarl, accessed November 14, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Princess Mononoke. In: Universe Anime. Universum Film GmbH, accessed on August 22, 2013 .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Princess Mononoke. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Princess Mononoke. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ PRINCESS MONONOKE . Top video news. Publisher: Children's and Youth Film Center on behalf of the BMFSFJ .
- ↑ http://www.fbw-filmbeval.com/film/prinzessin_mononoke
- ↑ Princess Mononoke: Hayao Miyazaki confirms leprosy theory. February 1, 2016, accessed July 8, 2020 .