PRINCESS

MONONOKE
STUDIO GHIBLI FILM

By Hayao Miyazaki
While protecting his village from a rampaging
boar- god/demon, a confident young warrior,
Ashitaka,is stricken by a deadly curse. To save
his life, he must journey to the forest of the
west.

Once there, he’s embroiled in a fierce

campaign that the humans were waging
on the forest.
 On the journey to find the cure to the curse,
Ashitaka reached the Iron City, where the
ambitious Lady Eboshi who rules the land
with iron fist battle with the fearless
Princess Mononoke: a mysterious young
woman who was raised by wolf-god, Moro.

In this quest, he meets the brave

young girl, San, the Mononoke
Hime
Lady Eboshi is a greedy woman who has no care
for the natural world and is willing to kill forest
gods to get her reward.But despite of her
greediness, she has compassion for her people
that’s why she’s willing to do anything.
Lady Eboshi shoots off the Spirit of
the Forest's head, and the headless
Spirit turns to black ooze that kills
everything it touches. Ashitaka and
San race to retrieve the head and
return it to the Spirit before he
reaches Iron Town
 The Forest Spirit euthanizes Okkoto and
Moro. As it transforms into the nightwalker,
Eboshi decapitates it. It bleeds ooze which
spreads over the land, killing anything it
touches as the nightwalker searches for its
head, which Jigo steals. The forest and
kodama begin to die
 After the samurai flee and Irontown is evacuated,
Ashitaka and San pursue Jigo and retrieve the head,
returning it to the Forest Spirit. The Spirit dies as the
sun rises, but its form washes over the land and heals
it, and Ashitaka's curse is lifted.
Ashitaka stays to help rebuild
Irontown, but promises San he will
.
visit her in the forest. Eboshi
reunites with the townspeople and
vows to build a better town. The
forest begins to regrow, and a
kodama emerges from the
undergrowth.