To me, it embodies all the major themes present throughout Miyazaki’s works: strong female characters, struggles between industrialism and environmentalism, mysticism as well as touching on elements of how society treats women and disabled people. I often can’t decide between this film and Grave of the Fireflies as my favourite films of all time, but Princess Mononoke is definitely up there in my top 3. Continuing my reviews of Studio Ghibli films, I’m going to talk about Princess Mononoke today.
