Princess Mononoke

This 1997 movie, much admired as the crowning work of Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli, is now on release in the dubbed American version—although British critics were shown the subtitled original— and it emerges as a fervently inventive and imaginative legend about man’s collision with nature: medieval warrior Prince Ashitaka and his alliance with Forest Spirits and Wolf Gods against the early Iron Age profiteers.