That is precisely why it is important to make this film as we enter the chaotic times of the twenty-first century. Princess Mononoke does not purport to solve the problems of the entire world. The battle between rampaging forest gods and humanity cannot end well; there can be no happy ending. Yet, even amid the hatred and slaughter, there are thing

Children watching it might forget the story completely and remember only one certain scene, as if it were a beautiful, shiny treasure. Even if they were to see it again as adults and find it didn’t really amount to much, they would still want it to be the way they remembered it. This is probably because it is something that has been personally expe

Audiences need to be challenged, too. They are also on a journey and it’s up to the artists to, I don’t know, light the way, so that we can all move forward.