Mononoke-hime (1999)
Catch Jada Pinkett-Smith as Toki (voice)
Theatrical Release Date: November 26, 1999
Summary:A prince is infected with an incurable disease by a possessed boar/god. He is to die unless he can find a cure to rid the curse from his body.
It seems that his only hope is to travel to the far east. When he arrives to get help from the deer god, he finds himself in the middle of a battle between the animal inhabitants of the forest and an iron mining town that is exploiting and killing the forest.
Leading the forest animals in the battle is a human raised by wolves, Princess Mononoko.
Review:
Even with the language barrier, the film is of such intense emotion that it caries you through to the end.
The change in dynamic between the crashing fight scenes and the quiet scenes of healing by the lake is so broad and so well paced that I can't remember a film where my emotional state was so expertly varied.
Jada Pinkett-Smith Movies:
- Collateral (2004)
- Matrix Revolutions (2003)
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- Kingdom Come (2001)
- Bamboozled (2000)
- Mononoke-hime (1999)
- Return to Paradise (1998)
- Scream 2 (1997)
- Set It Off (1996)
- If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
- The Nutty Professor (1996)
- Tales from the Crypt -- Demon knight (1995)
- A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
- Jason's Lyric (1994)
- The Inkwell (1994)
- Menace II Society (1993)