Princess Mononoke

Auteur

Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan’s most beloved animation directors. In 2005 he was awarded the Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement, and his Studio Ghibli received the festival’s Osella Award for overall achievement in 2004. Miyazaki’s films include Spirited Away, winner of the 2002 Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature Film, as well as Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, and Ponyo, all of which have received great acclaim in the U.S. Miyazaki’s other achievements include the highly regarded manga series Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Starting Point: 1979-1996, a collection of essays, interviews, and memoirs that chronicle his early career and the development of his theories of animation. Both are published in English by VIZ Media.

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The original story by Hayao Miyazaki that deleloped into the beloved film, Princess Mononoke. Includes Miyazaki's original illustrations.

Résumé
An oversized, lavishly illustrated storybook featuring original watercolorart by legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki! This is the original PrincessMononoke story, created by Hayao Miyazaki in 1980 while he was firstconceptualizing the landmark animated film that would be released to universalacclaim seventeen years later. As an initial version of the tale, it offers anew and different perspective from the final version presented in the film.After a long, exhausting war, a samurai lost in a forest encounters a giantwildcat--a mononoke. The beast saves his life, but at the price of hisdaughter's hand in marriage...