Seeking a means to lift his curse, he heads westward into mainland Japan, where he becomes trapped in the middle of a conflict between an industrialized village and the ancient spirits that rule the nearby forest. Princess Mononoke is the story of Prince Ashitaka, a man who is forced to leave his home after being cursed by an ancient demon. A film that I first watched during my formative years as a tenth grader, it changed my perception of what could be accomplished with an animated film. At the core of my list of game changers, which has been quietly curated since my days as a high school student is Hiyao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke, his 1997 animated epic that depicts a massive conflict between man and nature for control of the Earth’s resources. There are movies out there that I like to call “game changers.” These are movies that I’ve watched at critical points in my life that have helped redefine what movies have meant to me in a significant way Lawrence of Arabia played a huge role in defining how large of a scale a character drama can be while maintaining a rather singular focus, Star Wars and its sequel, The Empire Strikes Back helped define what movies can do with special effects and a solid balance between crisis and fun, and so on and such forth.
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