[Strider{TSU}]

well i was only gonna make this a one topic thread but meh w.e
u can post ur old favorite movies 2007 or lower. just in case someone hasnt seen a 2008 one..dont wanna be a spoiler now.

well im posting about Princess Mononoke. its anime its super 1337 though and for those of u who dont like anime. but like violence and fantasy. should watch this. its fricking pwn.

heres the story

its "A Sh it aka" but pronounced a-she-ta-ka


A****aka is the last Emishi prince ,who saves his village from an assault by a demon. After killing the demon, A****aka finds out that the demon was the Boar God Nago suffering under a curse. Having received a demon mark on his right arm during his battle with Nago, A****aka is cursed by the Boar God's hatred and pain. However, after consulting the shamanistic wise woman of the village, it is found that a lump of metal was in Nago's corpse, which was likely the source of the curse. Though currently limited to just his arm, the curse will eventually spread throughout A****aka's body, and then A****aka will die.

A****aka cuts his hair, signifying his permanent departure from his village,and sets out from his home to head to lands to the West, where Nago originated. He rides out with his steed Yakul, his loyal red elk. Since it was considered taboo to see off one who is banished, only one person dared to say goodbye to A****aka: his 'little sister,' Kaya (according to Miyazaki, actually his bride-to-be; calling herself his 'little sister' was a term of affection who gives him her crystal dagger so that he would not forget her.

As A****aka travels westward, he encounters a group of samurai slaughtering defenceless villagers. A****aka attempts to restrain the samurai with his bow and arrow, but his anger activates the heretofore latent forces of Nago's curse, which imbues his arm with supernatural strength.

After the battle, he meets a strange monk, Jigo, who was saved by A****aka during the attack. A****aka shows Jigo the iron bullet that was in Nago, and Jigo tells him that he may be able to find some answers at a place called Irontown.

Meanwhile, a pack of wolf gods assaults a wagon train transporting rice to Irontown. One of the wolves attacking the train is ridden by a human girl, Princess Mononoke, or the Princess of the Spirits. The wolf goddess Moro, mother of the other two wolf gods, is shot by Lady Eboshi, the leader of Irontown, and falls off a cliff.

On his way to Irontown, A****aka passes by the wreckage and remains of those who fell down the cliff in the battle, including a nearly comatose soldier and a wounded cattle herder. A****aka also sees San sucking the blood from the wound of Moro in an attempt to purify the wound and remove any infection from the site. He tries to talk to her, but she just tells him to "go away."

Several kodama, or tree spirits, appear and, having been asked by A****aka for help getting through the forest, lead him and the wounded men to Irontown.

At Irontown, A****aka has the opportunity to meet Lady Eboshi, who explains much of the plotline to him. There is a great war between Irontown, which cuts down the forest in order to mine the mountain's iron, and the kami ("god"—in this case forest god), whom the humans weaken or kill by destroying their habitat.

San, the Princess Mononoke, has tried several times to assassinate Lady Eboshi, since Irontown will probably fall apart without her leadership. A****aka witnesses such an attack that night, when San enters Irontown and engages Eboshi in a duel. A****aka stops the two women from fighting and says that he is going to take San, unconscious, back to the forest. As he leaves, one woman accidentally shoots A****aka with her gun, but he continues out of the town, unfazed.

As A****aka is riding from Irontown on Yakul, with San as a passenger, he loses the strength bestowed by the curse, and falls off Yakul. The two wolves who are San's "brothers" immediately want to eat A****aka, but San stops them. San demands that A****aka explain himself, to which he simply responds that he wanted her to live. This only enrages her further, as she considers herself a wolf, and is ready to die for her cause.

San takes A****aka to a sacred pond deep within the heart of the forest. There, she lays him on an island in the center of the lake and leaves a plant next to A****aka's body as an offering. San departs to allow Shishigami, the Forest Spirit, to arrive in solitude and decide A****aka's fate. Shishigami heals A****aka's bullet wound with a touch of its lips, but does not remove the curse.

The next day, Boar God Okkoto and his herd arrive at Shishigami's forest after months of travelling. Their mission is to kill all the humans and thus protect the forest of Shishigami, or die trying, picking up where Nago left off.

A****aka wakes up from days of recuperation in the den of the Moro tribe. He confronts Moro, trying to get her to "free" San, who is a human, but the wolf explains that she raised San when she caught her parents defiling the forest; as they ran they threw their baby at her paws. This makes San neither human nor wolf, but a child of the wolf tribe all the same; when the forest dies, so does she.

A****aka tries to mediate the conflict between man and the creatures of the forest. He sees Eboshi and San as two people who are blinded by their hatred for one another, and wants to find a solution that will please both sides. However, he fails, and thus the war begins.

The war is three-way. A powerful samurai lord, Asano, intent on controlling Irontown's forge and resources, has led troops to attack the fortress. Meanwhile, Okkoto attack force prepares its own war. Eboshi leads the Jibashiri, the emperor's agents who arrived with the manipulative monk Jigo, as well as the ishibiya troops to fight the boars and kill Shishigami. The Emperor believes that the Forest Spirit's head will grant him immortality and will pay a mountain of gold for it. Eboshi leaves the women to defend Irontown, knowing that they are strong enough to hold their own.

The boars, despite their huge numbers, are no match for the humans' mines and ishibiya. Only Okkoto, fatally wounded, is still alive. In order to kill Shishigami, the Jibashiri skin the dead boars for use as disguises to confuse Okkotonushi, who is blind. Okkoto turns into a full demon, with many red tendrils of burning hate seeping through his skin. San tries to push the tendrils off of Okkoto, but a hunter with a sling knocks San unconscious. San is engulfed by the red tendrils as Lord Okkoto plows towards the sacred lake.

A****aka senses that San is in trouble. With one of San's brother wolves, A****aka delves into the forest to find San. Along the way, A****aka attempts to tell Lady Eboshi about the attack on Irontown. Eboshi's men have already gone back, but Eboshi continues to hunt Shishigami. By the time A****aka gets to San, Okkoto has already reached the sacred island. A****aka tries to reach through the red tendrils to save San, but cannot reach her, and Lord Okkoto throws A****aka off into the pond. Moro, who was unconscious from the progress of infection caused by the ishibiya rifle wound she earlier received, awakens, and rushes towards Okkoto, demanding her daughter's return. Moro is able to dig San out, using her remaining strength to save her daughter instead of fighting Eboshi. A****aka takes San from Moro's mouth, and rushes San into the water to clean the tendrils off of her body.

Shishigami, the Great Forest Spirit, finally arrives. Eboshi, having arrived at the pond clearing, attempts to kill Shishigami with her gun, but Shishigami continues on, ignoring the wound. Okkoto, despite being blind, half-mad, and without much of a sense of smell, still is able to sense Shishigami. When Shishigami reaches Okkoto and Moro, Shishigami touches the nose of Okkoto, and the giant boar falls over, dead and at peace. Moro, succumbing to the rifle wound she sustained earlier, as well as her struggle with Okkoto, falls as well.

Eboshi rushes out once again, attempting to shoot Shishigami. Despite A****aka and Shishigami's attempts to stop her, Eboshi manages to shoot Shishigami in the neck just as he begins to change into the Nightwalker, and his head is severed completely. As this happens, Shishigami's body sends out a black ooze, which drains the life from everything in its path, trying to get its head back. With her last ounce of strength, Moro's severed head bites off Eboshi's right arm before falling into the black ooze. Jigo and his men put Shishigami's head in a box and try to run off.

The Shishigami's corpse begins an ever-widening search for its head, killing much of the forest and its kodama and destroying Irontown in the process. Ultimately, San and A****aka force Jigo to return the Shishigami's head. Thus appeased, the corpse's killing touch is abated, and the Nightwalker falls as the sun rises. Its disappearance is followed by a great wind. When the wind stops blowing, the surviving humans are astonished to witness the Shishigami's final gifts: a blanket of green grasses, flowers, and the shoots of new trees covering the vast empty plain that the rampage had left in the forest's place. The lepers among the Irontown survivors are healed of their disease, and A****aka and San are both healed of the demon curse.


A KodamaThe Irontown survivors and Lady Eboshi vow to build a new and better town where they can live in peace with the forest. Jigo quietly mocks A****aka and San for being fools, but is also seemingly impressed with what they have done and departs without any more fuss. San mourns the death of the Great Forest Spirit, but A****aka insists that Shishigami cannot truly die, as it is life itself. San returns to the wilderness, saying that though she cares for A****aka, she cannot forgive the humans for what they have done. A****aka announces that he will be staying at Irontown, but that he will come to the wilderness and visit her whenever he can.

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