Word: tartary
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Dates: during 1999-1999
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...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 one of Princess Mononoke's major themes--that...
...Animation frees directors of the difficulties actors present, giving the director nearly complete control of their performances. At the opening of Princess Mononoke, for example, Ashitaka, the future leader of an Emishi village, defends his village from a Tartari Gemi, an enormous creature covered with snakelike tentacles that destroys everything in its path. No creature shop in Hollywood today could create a Tartari Gemi as convincingly weird as that drawn by Shinji Otsuka, Hiroshi Shimizu, and the other animators. To hear a low, gravelly human voice issue from the monster is almost as frighteningly intriguing as his words: "Filthy humans...
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