In Miyazaki’s beautifully constructed and dark PRINCESS MONONOKE, the young warrior Prince Ashitaka kills a gigantic animal god to protect his village resulting in a cursed wound that will not heal. Determined to find a cure, he embarks on a quest and stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the leader of the ore-refining Iron Town; and the mysterious Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home. As the conflict between humans, animals, and gods intensifies, Ashitaka attempts to forge peace. In PRINCESS MONONOKE, Miyazaki layers visceral violence and devastating destruction of nature into his signature fantastical-world building acknowledging that some things once lost can never be replaced.