234. Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke) - Ani-May 2021 (#69)

The 250

Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney and with special guests Deirdre Molumby, Graham Day and Bríd Martin, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT. This year, we are proud to continue the tradition of Anime May, a fortnight looking at two of the animated Japanese films on the list. This year, we watched a double feature of the last two anime movies on the list, Hayao Miyazaki's Mononoke-hime and Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi. This week, the first part of the double bill, Mononoke-hime, the last film before Miyazaki's first announced retirement. A freak demon attack disturbs the peace of a remote village, and places a curse on a young prince. The hero must venture into the larger world in search of a cure, and quickly finds himself embroiled in a struggle between industrialisation and nature, between city and forest, between man and god. At time of recording, it was ranked 69th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.