| Overview: | A period when samurai warriors raided each other's territories whenever they sensed weakness or advantage. Men and women driven from areas of conflict eked out their living in remote forests ruled by ancient gods.
Ashitaka, a young warrior from the Emishi Clan, is forced to kill a boar-god who has gone mad and threatened his village. Subsequently, he is wounded by the god, and the wound carries a curse of slow death. In his journey to lift the curse, Ashitaka encounters the girl SAN, raised by wolves and called Princess Mononoke, Princess of Demons and Spirits, by her human enemies. He also encounters a samurai who massacres helpless villages, a wily itinerant Buddhist priest, and a proud village of ironsmiths whose leader, the Lady Eboshi, would fight against samurai or forest gods to turn her walled fortress of a town into a safe and prosperous place to live.
Princess Mononoke is the story of a young man's quest to reconcile the powerful forces of human civilization and industry with the need to live harmoniously in the natural world.
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