Made in 1997, it depicts the clash between the natural world and its old gods and the rise of humans with the beginning of of modern civilization, showing three elements of the Japanese psyche warring for supremacy in the form of an ecological fable
Young warrior Ashitaka sustains a wound that refuses to heel from battling with a cursed beast.
Anxious to secure a remedy for this supernatural injury, he leaves the remote village he lives for the forbidding forests of the west where he discovers an enclave of humans under siege from divine powers. They are the deities of the past, the wolf gods and a wild girl of the forest called San.
Updated 2017 for blu ray image and tag
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