The demon is both a masterclass of creepy and inventive character design and just insanely complex animation. thing comes bursting out of the forest and makes a beeline for the village.Īnd Hayao, c’mon man. As Ashitaka and the sentry watch, a huge, writhing…. The village wise woman has warned him that something is headed towards the village but can’t say what. Ashitaka, the prince of the Emishi, rides his red elk, Yakul to a sentry point on the outskirts of the village. The Emishi were a real historical group who came into conflict with the ancient Japanese and…well, it’s called “Japan” and not “Emishiland” so you can probably guess how that shook out. We begin in the village of a tribe of people called the Emishi. We got decapitations, monstrous transformations, severed limbs, giant bleeding boars turning into worm monsters of pure hatred and all kinds of dark horror that Disney just doesn’t do. Even Miyazaki, who is about as far as you can get from Fist of the Northstar, can serve you up some pretty disturbing imagery and Mononoke is probably the darkest movie in his filmography (I’ve heard Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is even darker but I haven’t seen it yet). Which, of course, is why it’s so popular here. There is an intensity to the violence and body horror in animé that’s like nothing you’d see in Western entertainment. Animé is into some messed up shit quite frankly, and I’m not even talking about their lax stance on schoolgirl/tentacle relationships. Having said that, it’s certainly true that animé can be…well, pretty shocking to Western audiences used to animation being almost totally comedic. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncutwas one of the biggest grossing movie musicals of all time.
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The airwaves are full of animated series specifically marketed towards adults. The most successful television show in American history is The Simpsons. No, animation in the West is no longer seen as being children’s entertainment. Now, it’s a tired old truism that the big difference between animation in Japan and in the West is that here, animation is seen as being “just for kids” and I really hope we can put that one to rest finally. Following that, Miramax, a tentacle of the vast Disney octopus, purchased the rights for distribution in the West. Monoke-Hime “The Spirit Princess” was released in Japan in 1997 and almost immediately became the most successful Japanese film of all time against a budget of 2 billion yen (aka around $20 million dollars or a third of what it cost to make Foodfight!). For Princess Mononoke I’m reviewing the dubbed version for the following reasons: So basically, when it comes to animé, subbed or dubbed, I’m easy. It’s also easier to make the lip movements more closely approximate the new language in animation. With an animated film, however, everyone, original voice actors and unwashed gaijin alike are in a recording booth anyway so it doesn’t matter.
Also, you just can’t make the lip movements synch up, it’s just not possible. One of my big problems with dubbing over live action is that even when the characters are outside in a forest or whatever the voices coming out of their mouths always sound like they’re in a recording booth. Der Untergang is one of my favourite films and if you ever suggested watching it in anything other than the original German, I’d accuse you of being the first person to ever talk about Der Untergang who was actually worse than the main character. When it comes to live action movies, I cannot STAND dubbing.
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