Princess Mononoke (movie)

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Alternative title:

Công chúa sói (Vietnamese)

Księżniczka Mononoke (Polish)

La Princesa Mononoke (Spanish)

Mononoke Hime (Japanese)

Princesa Mononoke (Portuguese)

Princesse Mononoké (French)

Principessa Mononoke (Italian)

Prinsessan Mononoke (Swedish)

Prinsesse Mononoke (Danish)

Prinzessin Mononoke (German)

Принцесса Мононоке (Russian)

もののけ姫 (Japanese)

幽靈公主 (Chinese (Hong Kong))

魔法公主 (Chinese (Taiwan))

모노노케 히메 (Korean)

원령공주 (Korean)

Genres: adventure

, drama

, fantasy

Themes: deforestation

, forest spirit

, spirits

Objectionable content: Significant

Plot Summary: While fighting to save his village from the attack of a demon-god, Ashitaka comes in contact with it and is inflicted with a deadly curse. In his search for a cure he is forced to leave his village forever and journey to the forest inhabited by animal gods. There he finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and a village led by Lady Eboshi.

User Ratings: 8903 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 3859 votes (sub:2002, dub:1609, ?:40, raw:36, edit.dub:22, others:150

38 Spanish subtitled
29 German dubbed
14 Spanish dubbed
13 French dubbed
12 French subtitled
8 Portuguese subtitled
7 Italian dubbed
5 Russian subtitled
4 German subtitled
3 Polish subtitled
2 Polish dubbed
2 Arabic subtitled
2 Russian dubbed
2 Italian subtitled
1 Mandarin subtitled
1 French edited dub
1 Danish subtitled
1 Finnish subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
1 German edited dub
1 Dutch subtitled
1 Polish edited dub
1 Italian edited dub

)

Excellent: 2609 votes (sub:1367, dub:1095, ?:27, raw:14, edit.dub:12, others:94

19 Spanish subtitled
15 German dubbed
12 Spanish dubbed
9 French subtitled
6 Portuguese subtitled
6 Italian dubbed
4 Russian dubbed
4 Polish subtitled
3 Russian subtitled
3 French dubbed
2 German subtitled
2 Korean subtitled
2 Russian edited dub
2 Swedish subtitled
1 Spanish edited dub
1 Croatian subtitled
1 Catalan dubbed
1 Polish dubbed
1 czech dubbed

)

Very good: 1301 votes (sub:655, dub:579, ?:11, edit.dub:7, raw:7, others:42

8 German dubbed
7 Spanish dubbed
5 Portuguese subtitled
5 Spanish subtitled
3 Russian subtitled
3 French dubbed
2 Italian dubbed
2 Polish subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 Russian edited dub
1 German edited dub
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Russian dubbed

)

Good: 684 votes (sub:357, dub:269, ?:15, edit.dub:6, raw:2, others:35

11 German dubbed
5 Spanish subtitled
5 French subtitled
4 Italian dubbed
2 Russian dubbed
1 Korean subtitled
1 Swedish subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 French dubbed
1 German subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Serbian subtitled subtitled

)

Decent: 218 votes (sub:114, dub:92, ?:6, raw:2, edit.dub:1, others:3

2 German dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled

)

So-so: 123 votes (sub:62, dub:55, edit.dub:1, ?:1, others:4

2 German dubbed
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled

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Not really good: 35 votes (sub:20, dub:12, ?:2, others:1

1 French dubbed

)

Weak: 40 votes (sub:24, dub:15, others:1

1 French subtitled

)

Bad: 12 votes (sub:9, dub:3)

Awful: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)

Worst ever: 19 votes (sub:14, dub:5)

Seen in part or in whole by 13830 users, rank: #9 (of 5564)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.927 (Excellent), std. dev.: 1.3577, rank: #76 (of 5553)
Weighted mean: 8.864 (Excellent), rank: #73 (of 5553) (seen all: 8.87 / seen some: 6.65 / won't finish: 4.45)
Bayesian estimate: 8.863 (Excellent), rank: #9 (of 4228)

Running time: 133 minutes

Production cost: ¥2,400,000,000

Vintage:

1997

2006-12-30 (Spain, Cuatroº)

Premiere date:

1997-07-12 (Japan)

1999-08-13 (United States, Special Premiere Showing at Comicon)

1999-10-29 (United States and Canada wide release)

2000-01-12 (France)

2000-01-25 (Italy - Future Film Festival)

2000-04-29 (Japan, In English with Japanese Subtitles)

2000-09-08 (Poland)

2001-01-04 (Croatia)

2003-12-24 (Germany, RTL II - TV Premiere)

2006-01-28 (Canada, YTV)

Release dates: We have 33

Chronology:

(1994-08) Started Production

Opening Theme:

"Ashitaka Sekki" (アシタカせっき; "The Legend of Ashitaka") by Joe Hisaishi

Ending Theme:

"Mononoke Hime" (もののけ姫) by Joe Hisaishi

Official website:

Official Danish Princess Mononoke Website (Danish)

Madman's Official Princess Mononoke Website

Miramax Films' Official Princess Mononoke Homepage

Official French Princess Mononoke Website (French)

Optimum's Official Princess Mononoke Sales Site

UFA Anime's Official Prinzessin Mononoke Sales Site (German)

Links: We have 7

Trivia: We have 24

Comment:

At just under US$20 million production costs, Princess Mononoke was the most expensive anime ever created when it was released.

Princess Mononoke was also the most successful Japanese, and in fact international (non-US) film ever created. Princess Mononoke earned over US$150 million at the Japanese box office. Mononoke was, however, beaten at the Japanese box office shortly after by the US-produced Titanic, but it kept its title as the most successful Japanese film ever produced until Miyazaki's Sen to Chihiro surpassed it, earning in excess of $200 million dollars in Japan alone (also surpassing Titanic for the Japanese box office crown).

Mononoke was included when Disney and Tokuma signed an agreement in 1996 giving Disney exclusive worldwide rights to a number of Ghibli films. Part of the deal in fact stipulated that Disney must release Mononoke theatrically in the United States. Disney agreed to this without ever seeing Mononoke.

When Disney finally saw Mononoke for the first time it was nothing like what they expected (they expected a cute, children's anime similar to Miyazaki's other films), but they were contractually obligated to release it.

The North American theatrical run of Princess Mononoke was deemed an abysmal failure in the end, the most successful international film ever created (at the time) earned a paltry $2.4 million dollars in the United States and Canada.

Review:

Princess Mononoke DVD (Jan 1, 1970)

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