Publisher Description

An oversized, lavishly illustrated storybook featuring original watercolor art by legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki!

This is the original Princess Mononoke story, created by Hayao Miyazaki in 1980 while he was first conceptualizing the landmark animated film that would be released to universal acclaim seventeen years later. As an initial version of the tale, it offers a new and different perspective from the final version presented in the film. After a long, exhausting war, a samurai lost in a forest encounters a giant wildcat - a mononoke. The beast saves his life, but at the price of his daughter's hand in marriage...

Author Biography

Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's most beloved animation directors. In 2005 he was awarded the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement, and his Studio Ghibli received the festival's Osella Award for overall achievement in 2004. Miyazaki's films include "Spirited Away", winner of the 2002 Academy Award(R) for Best Animated Feature Film, as well as "Castle in the Sky", "My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle", and "Ponyo", all of which have received great acclaim in the U.S. Miyazaki's other achievements include

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