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...immediate future will see the American release of one of Japan's highest grossing films of all time, Miyazaki's Mononoke Hime (translated as The Princess Mononoke) by Disney, under their Miramax label. The film, which features the dub-over voices of Claire Danes, Gillian Anderson and Minnie Driver, will open in major U.S. cities, including Boston...

Author: By Richard Ho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Anime for Dummies: A User-Friendly Introduction | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

Regardless of the Hollywood roster, Princess Mononoke will still astound even seasoned anime fans. Hayao Miyazaki, writer and director of Princess Mononoke, is among the most celebrated directors of Japanese anime. Mononoke Hime, as it is called in Japan, takes place in the Muromanchi era, and begins in a remote Emishi village under attack from a Tartari Gemi, or "curse god", who curses Ashitaka, the last descendant of the Emishi royal house. In reality the last Emishi village had been taken over by the Japanese empire long before the Muromanchi era; the threat of the Emishi's extinction introduces...

Author: By Nia C. Stephens, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mononoke on the Horizon: Will the 'Princess' survive a precarious translation? | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...pretty good chance of making the team, even though the Cowboys had found him by mistake. As they were watching a film of Carter U. Lord '68, a wide receiver, they caught sight of Brooks in the background. Cowboy officials made a separate tape of Brooks, and gave hime the national ranking...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: Brooks Comes Full Circle | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...Western-style toilet outside the home. For ladies who do not want to waste water but wish to maintain decorum -- according to TOTO's investigations, women flush an average of 2.5 times per visit to drown out potentially embarrassing or offensive noises -- there is the Oto Hime (Sound Princess), which plays a recording of flushing water. "We want to change the toilet from a space that one wants to do without to a space where one can relax," says Fujita spokesman Kazuyuki Kume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: King for A Day | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Some city councilors have argued that the city should award Healy a contract in order to give hime better job security and dissuade him from taking job offers from other cities. Healy has reportedly received job offers from several cities but has turned them down...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Top Cambridge Administrator Awarded Five-Year Contract | 1/8/1985 | See Source »

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