dollars at the Japanese box office, topping “ E.T.” and “ Jurassic Park.” Only “Titanic” has made more.īut while “Mononoke” was a breakout success, it wasn’t his first. Upon its release in summer 1997, “ Princess Mononoke” went on to gross more than $150 million in U.S. That’s because Miyazaki’s film stands as a masterpiece on its own.
“And I actually really don’t think I’m going to watch (it)… If I start watching their version, I may start making all these comments.” “To tell you the truth, I have not seen the English dubbed version done by Miramax,” Miyazaki said. So what does Miyazaki think about the new production? He doesn’t. And also regarding the music, the basic idea was to maintain the original music score.”
“No editing, but they would be able to dub the film. “We talked about the conditions,” Miyazaki said through a translator. Miyazaki says he puts his trust in the studio, but drew his lines. Other stars lending their words are “The X-Files” Gillian Anderson and Jada Pinkett Smith.Įven with a star pedigree and a refurbished script by DC Comics creator Neil Gaiman, Miramax promises a faithful presentation of the film. Claire Danes voices the title role of the angry Mononoke Billy Crudup (“ Without Limits“) plays Ashitaka Minnie Driver is Lady Eboshi and Billy Bob Thornton voices Jigo Boh, a pragmatic monk. Ashitaka finds his mission is to facilitate peace between humans and nature.īut it’s not your run-of-the-mill cartoon actors taking on the task. Her enemy is Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolf gods who hates the human race. The journey takes him to a mining colony led by the regal Lady Eboshi, who provides for her people but is bent on destroying the forest gods, who protect the land she is trying to raze for industrial purposes. But in doing so he is cursed, and must find its cure before it kills him. The story, drawn from folklore, follows a young warrior prince named Ashitaka, who kills a demon boar in the forests of Japan. So it’s no surprise that the soft-spoken, 58-year-old filmmaker seems bewildered by not only the phenomenal success of “ Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime)” but America’s fascination with his anime films, such that Miramax plans to release “ Mononoke” with English-language dubbing on Oct. 22, 1999 - One never expects a film legend to be pulling out chairs for reporters.īut Hayao Miyazaki does, in such a quiet, unassuming way that makes him appear more banquet host than director of one of the highest-grossing films in Japan.
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