Princess Mononoke

Princess Mononoke
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	もののけ姫
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Mononoke-hime
Directed by	Hayao Miyazaki
Written by	Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by	Toshio Suzuki
Starring	Yōji Matsuda Yuriko Ishida Yūko Tanaka Kaoru Kobayashi Masahiko Nishimura Tsunehiko Kamijō Akihiro Miwa Mitsuko Mori Hisaya Morishige
Cinematography	Atsushi Okui
Edited by	Takeshi Seyama
Music by	Joe Hisaishi
Production company	Studio Ghibli
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	July 12, 1997 (1997-07-12)
Running time	133 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	¥2.35 billion ($23.5 million)
Box office	$194.3 million[1]

Princess Mononoke (Japanese: もののけ姫, Hepburn: Mononoke-hime) is a 1997 Japanese animated epic historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu. The film stars the voices of Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yūko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiko Nishimura, Tsunehiko Kamijo, Akihiro Miwa, Mitsuko Mori, and Hisaya Morishige.

Princess Mononoke is set in the late Muromachi period of Japan (approximately 1336 to 1573 AD) and includes fantasy elements. The story follows a young Emishi prince named Ashitaka, and his involvement in a struggle between the gods (kami) of a forest and the humans who consume its resources. The film deals with themes of Shinto and environmentalism.

The film was released in Japan on July 12, 1997, by Toho, and in the United States on October 29, 1999. It was a critical and commercial blockbuster, becoming the highest-grossing film in Japan of 1997, and also held Japan's box office record for domestic films until 2001's Spirited Away, another Miyazaki film. It was dubbed into English with a script by Neil Gaiman and initially distributed in North America by Miramax, where it sold well on home media despite not performing strongly at the box office.^[2] The film greatly increased Ghibli's popularity and influence outside Japan.^[3][4]