Studio Ghibli’s legendary environmentalist epic Princess Mononoke (1997) has been re-released in Imax across North America, just as Studio Ghibli became the unwitting subject of an AI-generated trend.
Set in Japan’s Muromachi era, Princess Mononoke opens with the last Emishi prince, Ashitaka, getting cursed after he kills a boar god to protect his village. The boar god’s dying words are steeped in ...