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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Sat Nov 01, 2003 9:01 pm

I saw this movie a long time ago... be4 i really knew what anime is... i remeber..well a lot of missing limbs and heads when people got shot with arrows,, er something... anyway is this a kids movie ou know like
G,PG, PG-13?
please! its driving me crazy!
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Postby true_noir_chloe » Sun Nov 02, 2003 8:49 am

Are you talking about Princess Mononoke? It's a film by Hiyao Miyazaki. It's PG-13 and it's one of his best films, IMHO.

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beyond the fog I hide behind.

You cast your light upon the shadows

that stretch like cobwebs in my mind.

You ease the pain when I am hurting,

and morbid visions from my past

pierce into the realm of Reason

as though I danced on blades of glass.

You grant me strength when I have fallen

and, once again, I've lost my way.

You take my hand in Yours and lead me

into the promise of a brand new day.

You bring order to all my chaos,

yet set my well-laid plans awry.

You place me on a firm foundation ---

then give me wings so I can fly.

You sand away my roughened edges

and polish all the dullest parts

until I stand before Your presence...

a newly-sculpted work of art.

You see into the heart within me,

right through my motives and selfish will.

And yet, in spite of all You see

You say You love me even still.


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Postby Taslin_Jewel » Sun Nov 02, 2003 8:51 am

Princess Monoke is terrific, just like all the Miyazaki films, but I personally prefer Castle in the Sky and Spirited Away.
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Postby Straylight » Sun Nov 02, 2003 9:09 am

I'm a big fan of Mononoke, though Spirited Away is my favourite Miyazaki film.
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Sun Nov 02, 2003 9:13 am

PG 13? so i see! was for the violence? or was there language? i dont remember... but spirited away is my faveorite! i wathed it just last night. but the rental store only had VHS so it shows up reall grainy in my 65'' mistsu *sob*
dont they know alot of us probly have dvd players??? *grr*
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Postby Mithrandir » Sun Nov 02, 2003 9:34 am

Woah. I didn't even know they had SA out on video tape. That's just disturbing. Sorry your video store's odd, Ruroken.

The blockbuster down the street from here only has DVDs. Well, there's a tiny little VHS section. At the back of the store. Actually, I haven't been there in a while. I don't watch many movies. And I have lots of friends from whom I can borrow anime... Hmm... You know, there's this show I've been wanting to watch... :sweat:
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Sun Nov 02, 2003 9:37 am

what show is that? well the rental store has quite a few dvd's. i believe they only have the Three Miyazaki films and only on VHS
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Postby The Silence » Sun Nov 02, 2003 2:04 pm

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Postby Haibane Shadsie » Sun Nov 02, 2003 2:25 pm

Ah, Princess Mononoke! Yes, it's a GREAT movie. I personally liked Spritied Away better, which I got on VHS. Unfortunately for me, I shared it with my young nieces by letting them borrow the tape... They've become addicted to the movie, watching it nearly every day (as kids do with movies they really like), and I seem to be unable to get my tape back...
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Postby madphilb » Sun Nov 02, 2003 2:38 pm

Ruroken wrote:the rental store only had VHS so it shows up reall grainy in my 65'' mistsu *sob*


Oh you're breaking my heart here...

let me intorduce you to my 19" Zenith... those knobs on the side of the TV, that's how they used to switch channels before remote controls. :grin:

On a few occasions I was going to rent Spirited Away (I think I'll just buy it eventually), but the DVD copy is gone, much like some of the other movies... people steal that stuff left and right, the only thing is that my Blockbuster is too lazy to pull the empty DVD case off the shelf when the DVD turns up missing.

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Postby Kagan » Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:12 pm

Hmm.. Miyazaki also had made another film about some girl who lived in a post-apocalyptic world full of giant insects. Too bad i've forgotten its name, but from what I've gathered from Mononoke, SA and that movie was that Miyazaki likes to reflect on how pollution and humans in general are ruining the environment. Probably has to do with the high pollution rate in Japan during its high-growth era.
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Postby Bobtheduck » Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:59 pm

Mononoke is great... It's definately violence that netted the PG-13... The violence is pretty pronounced in Mononoke...

It is one of the most beautiful anime ever made, though...
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Postby Gypsy » Wed Nov 05, 2003 10:32 am

There were also other images of .. well, it's not really violence, but some of the animal god scenes were obviously not something to show a younger kid. I think it deserved the PG-13 rating. I'm not a Miyazaki fan at all, but that one was cool.
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Postby EireWolf » Thu Nov 06, 2003 2:29 pm

Yeah, Princess Mononoke was pretty gruesome in parts... and it had some disturbing themes. I would NOT recommend it to a younger viewer, but I would recommend it to a mature viewer who isn't bothered by graphic violence.
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Postby MasterDias » Thu Nov 06, 2003 2:44 pm

I enjoyed Mononoke. It had some pretty cool scenes in it.
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Sat Nov 29, 2003 9:00 am

i just watched monoke this morning. yeah it was gruesom and had the d word once or twice. who is the princess? all i see is San and prince ashitaka. it was a very good movie and my youngest bro wasnt bothered at all
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Postby cbwing0 » Sat Nov 29, 2003 9:05 am

It is a great movie, although there are some gross scenes (not gory, just gross). So, if you don't like that sort of thing, this might not be the movie for you, although it is probably worth sitting through those scenes to see the rest of the movie.

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Postby That Dude » Sat Nov 29, 2003 12:08 pm

Kagan wrote:Hmm.. Miyazaki also had made another film about some girl who lived in a post-apocalyptic world full of giant insects. Too bad i've forgotten its name, but from what I've gathered from Mononoke, SA and that movie was that Miyazaki likes to reflect on how pollution and humans in general are ruining the environment. Probably has to do with the high pollution rate in Japan during its high-growth era.

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Hey the one your talking about is "Nausicaa Valley Of The Wind." I haven't seen it yet but I will if I can find it anywhere. Mononoke is a great movie. Great animation and stuff...It's really cool.
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Postby Tet-chan » Sun Nov 30, 2003 3:04 am

Is princess Mononoke about a girl living in a jungle hanging out animals?
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Postby Nia-chan » Sun Nov 30, 2003 5:33 am

Close. The princess San lives in the forest with her wolf mother and brothers and they want to protect it from the humans who want to dig up the forest for iron. But I'm really not good with summaries. -_-'
By the way, what are all of Miyazaki's films? I want to see them all!
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Postby cbwing0 » Sun Nov 30, 2003 6:09 am

I would add the part about prince Ashitaka, who his the real main character despite the name of the movie. He lives peacefully in his village until a demon attacks. He kills it, but is infected by it in the process. The infection is kind of vague, but it appears to some sort of physical manifestation of evil. So, Ashitaka has to search for a cure. Along the way, he meets princess San. That's about all I can say without giving away the story.
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Postby Orange Kitten » Sun Nov 30, 2003 1:44 pm

Nia-chan wrote:By the way, what are all of Miyazaki's films? I want to see them all!


The following films were directed by Miyazaki:

Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds) (1984)

Tenku no Shiro Laputa (Castle in the Sky) (1986)

Tonari No Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) (1988)

Majo no Takkyubin (Witche's Special Express Delivery) [aka: Kiki's Delivery Service] (1989)

Kurenai no Buta (Porco Ross) (1992)

Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke) (1997)

Sen to Chihiro no Kamikiakushi (Spirited Away) (2001)


Miyazaki had a key role in the following films

Omoide Poro Poro (Only Yesterday) (1991)

Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko (Modern-Day Raccoon War Ponpoko) (1994)

Mimio Sumaseba (Whisper of the Heart) (1995)

He has helped make many tv series an other films, those are most of the major ones though.
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