A desire to protect nature, Princess Mononoke There is awe for Nature ... As the battle escalates and the Forest Spirit is nearly destroyed, the film highlights themes of environmental destruction ...

The following contains spoilers for Princess Mononoke ... these animals wanted to protect their enchanted forest and their god, the Forest Spirit. San was a baby who Moro adopted after her ...

Never cloying or heavy-handed, Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece is nonetheless a work that seriously examines humanity's complex relationship with the planet we inhabit.

Studio Ghibli is a renowned Japanese animation studio famous for its stunning visuals and captivating stories.

Though they’ve become marginally more open to using digital technology in recent years, Studio Ghibli still has a well-deserved reputation for doing much of their work the old-fashioned, hand-drawn ...

Sure, it's just some cool images. But it shows the tide is with the customized and the automated — and away from originality.

GKIDS, Ghibli’s U.S. distributor, offered slightly lower-key shade when, upon announcing a new Imax restoration of Miyazaki’s 1997 historical fantasy Princess ... the Forest Spirit, or Mahito ...

My Neighbor Totoro (1988) – A heartwarming tale about two sisters and their friendship with a forest spirit ... wizard and a cursed young woman. Princess Mononoke (1997) – An epic adventure ...

To find a cure, he travels west in search of the Forest Spirit. On his journey, he meets San (Princess Mononoke), a fierce young woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, the leader ...