#Ghibli 1997

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Princess Mononoke~

Who else remembers this masterpiece?🌙💖

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SHE WHO SPITS BLOOD AND RUNS WITH THE WOLVES -- THE WOLF GIRL PRINCESS.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on an original "Princess Mononoke" (1997) Japanese B5 Chirashi handbill. A Hayao Miyazaki film.

PIC #2: A commercial poster (20x29) design, a reported "rare style," of Miyazaki's animated fantasy classic.

Resolution at 960x1350 & 960x1371.

Source: https://posteritati.com/poster/39526/princess-mononoke-original-1997-japanese-b5-chirashi-handbill (Posteritati 2x).

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Princess Mononoke (1997) background art

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Dancing: Waltz

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Maserati Ghibli, 1997, by Campana. A second generation Ghibli with bodywork by the Italian carrozzeria. The car pictured is a one-off that belongs to a Japanese collector

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Whenever I see people impatiently awaiting the next installment of their favourite franchise, I think about the Borrowers books and how Mary Norton originally ended her series with four books complete with a neat little bow that was the epilogue, confirming Arrietty's marriage to Spiller and their happy ever after, only to write a fifth book in the series a whooping twenty years after its original completion where ghosts are introduced into the world without explanation, a love triangle is forced between Arrietty, Spiller and new character Peagreen (who was made into her brother and his disability erased in the 1998 movie), the book ends on a cliffhanger with no resolution for any of the plotlines introduced; Arrietty's family STILL forbid her from mingling with humans and she chickens out on speaking with her friends from book 4 again, then Arrietty and Spiller fight over his refusal to interact with humans (which, given Spiller's backstory is entirely justified), Arrietty runs to Peagreen for comfort and the story ENDS, Mary Norton DIED before she could write the next book and conclude their story, if that's not bad enough, modern publications of book 4 omit the original epilogue so there's no clear satisfying ending, I think about this a lot

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Forest Spirit

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Round 5 - SEMIFINALS

It's the battle of albums and anime in 1997! Which will be the last anime standing?

Revolutionary Girl Utena: If it cannot break its shell, the chick will die without ever being born. This sentiment, originally found in Hermann Hesse’s 1919 novel Demian, features during a repeated sequence in the 1997 anime Revolutionary Girl Utena. Hesse is far from the only reference to philosophical, surrealist, or heavily symbolic text in the show, which trades in visual metaphor and multi-layered subtext. Revolutionary Girl Utena follows the story of Utena Tenjou, a young orphan who aspires to princehood-- challenging or outright circumventing the place of gender in that aspiration-- and is entangled in a series of duels centered around a girl named Anthy Himemiya. Written by Kunihiko Ikuhara, Chiho Saito, and Yōji Enokido (known collectively as Be-Papas) and soundtracked by J.A. Seazer and Shinkichi Mitsumune, the show has an instantly recognizable style, combining lush fairytale visuals and French-inspired architecture with a choir that functions as a sort of Greek chorus to the internal worlds externalized in combat. Utena is a story about many things, arguably all things, taking a surgical scalpel to adolescence and using the flat of the blade as a paintbrush, leaving a deeply human, visceral work of art in its wake. It has been massively influential on feminist, queer & sapphic, and otherwise gender-deconstructive or gender-subversive modern media. Smash the world's shell! For the revolution of the world!

Princess Mononoke: Cut off a wolf’s head, and it still has the power to bite. Princess Mononoke is a critically acclaimed animated film created by globally renowned director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, released in 1997. The film tells a complex environmental story, set in a fantastical ancient forest based on late Muromachi period Japan; we join a young warrior, Ashitaka, who becomes embroiled in a conflict between the inhabitants of the forest and a mining town encroaching on their land. At the heart of the story is San, a human girl raised by wolves, and Lady Eboshi, the leader of the mining community. Princess Mononoke is admired by Ghibli and non-Ghibli fans alike for its beautiful hand-drawn animation and its exploration of the themes of nature, industrialization, and the delicate balance between the consistent push of humanity and the weariness of a long-surviving environment. It was the highest-grossing film in Japan for 1997, and also held Japan's box office record for domestic films until Miyazaki’s 2001 release Spirited Away; for many, these films also filled a long-existing gap for skillfully-crafted Japanese animated films appealing to the wider Western market.

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Princess Mononoke (1997) Dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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Boris Style Challenge

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Nature in film.

Orlando (1992/Sally Potter) | Stalker (1979/Andrei Tarkovski) | Howard's End (1992/James Ivory) | Princess Mononoke (1997/Hayao Miyazaki) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001/Peter Jackson)

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moodboard: just finished watching princess mononoke for the five billionth time