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 Mononoke Hime
(Princess Mononoke)		  
 

 

Credits, Figures & Other Information

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General Information

 

Release Information

Japan

  • Version: Japanese dialogue
  • Opening Date: July 12, 1997
  • Opening Screens: 260
  • Showing Period: about 8 months
  • Admissions: 13.53 million
  • Film Grosses: ¥18.65 billion
    (US$154 million; US$1 = ¥121)
  • Film Rental: ¥11.22 billion
    (US$92.7 million)

("Film Rental" means the distributor's share of total ticket sales. It is usually 50-60% of gross revenue, and theater owners will take the rest. In Japan, film rentals are usually used to rank films by sales, while film grosses are used in the US.)

Hong Kong

  • Version: Cantonese dub
    (one screen showed Chinese sub version)
  • Opening Date: Aug 14, 1997
  • Opening Screens: 20
  • Showing Period: 56 days
  • Film Grosses: HK$6.54 million
  • Film Classification:
    Category IIA -- not suitable for children

Taiwan

  • Opening Date: Aug 2, 1997
  • Showing Period: about a few weeks

United States & Canada

  • Version: English (Miramax) dub
  • Premiere: Aug 13, 1999
    San Diego ComicCon (special showing)
    (See the     fan reviews of the dub)
  • Opening Date: October 29, 1999
    (tentative, may be changed)
  • MPAA rating: PG-13
    (for images of violence and gore)

Germany

  • Premiere: Feb 12, 1998;
    48th Berlin International Film Festival;
    (Miyazaki attended the Q&A session)
    German sub was shown
  • Opening Date: Unknown

France

  • Premiere: Apr 5, 1998;
    9th Valenciennes Action & Adventures Film Festival;
    French sub was shown
  • Opening Date: Unknown (rumored to be January, 2000)

 

Original Staff Credits for Japanese Version
 
Chief Executive Producer :   Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Executive Producers :   Seiichiro Ujiie   Yutaka Narita
Original Story,
Written &
Directed by		 :   Hayao Miyazaki
Music by :   Joe Hisaishi
Theme Song :   "Mononoke Hime" (Princess Mononoke)
    Lyrics by Hayao Miyazaki
    Written and Arranged by Joe Hisaishi
    Performed by Yoshikazu Mera
Animation Supervisors :   Masashi Ando
    Kitaro Kosaka   Yoshifumi Kondo
Key Animators :   Shinji Otsuka   Masako Shinohara   Noriko Moritomo
    Megumi Kagawa   Ken'ichi Konishi   Masaaki Endo
    Hiroshi Shimizu   Tsutomu Awatai   Hiroko Minowa
    Michio Mihara   Atsuko Otani   Takeshi Inamura
    Hideaki Yoshio   Makiko Futaki   Ken'ichi Yamada
    Sinsaki Sasaki   Eiji Yamamori   Ken'ichi Yoshida
    Masaru Matsuse   Ikuo Kuwana   Mariko Matsuo
    Toshio Kawaguchi   Takehiro Noda   Sachiko Sugino
    Katsuya Kondo   Yoshinori Kanada
Animation Checkers :   Hitomi Tateno
    Katsutoshi Nakamura   Masaya Saito
    Rie Nakagome   Kazuyoshi Onoda
In-Between :   Akiko Tejima   Mayumi Omura   Yumiko Kitajima
    Suzuko Mano   Houko Sakano   Kazuko Shibata
    Misuzu Kurata   Kuri Sawa   Makiko Suzuki
    Mariko Suzuki   Hana Kikuchi   Koujiro Tsuruoka
    Atsushi Tamura   Minori Noguchi   Kaori Fujii
    Hiromasa Yonebayashi   Hisako Yachi   Tamami Yamada
    Manabu Kawada   Sachie Sakou   Alexandra Weihrauch
    David Encinas   (etc)
    Telecom Animation Film
Supporting
Animation Studios		 :   Anime Torotoro  ·  OH Production  ·  Studio Cockpit  · 
    Studio Takuranke  ·  Group Donguri
Art Directors :   Nizo Yamamoto   Naoya Tanaka
    Youji Takeshige   Satoshi Kuroda
    Kazuo Oga
Background :   Noboru Yoshida   Naomi Kasugai   Kyoko Naganawa
    Hisae Saito   Ryoko Ina   Sayaka Hirahara
    Sadayuki Arai   Kiyomi Ota   Jun'ichi Taniguchi
    Masako Osada   Hiroaki Sasaki   Masaki Tamura
Special Art :   Kaichi Fukutome
Special Effects :   Touji Tanifuji
    Houji Hashizume   Masahiro Murakami
    Toyohiko Sakakibara   Kumiko Tamiguchi
Color Stylist :   Michiyo Yasuda
Color Designation :   Masayo Iseki   Naomi Mori   Kanako Moriya
Ink and Paint :   Akiko Ono   Naomi Atsuta   Tomiko Oda
    Yukie Nomura   Kazuko Yamada   Eiichi Suzuki
    Yuriko Katayama
    Studio Killy
    IM Studio
    Trace Studio M
    Toei Doga
    Telecom Animation Film
    Studio OM Aomori Works  ·  Anime House  ·  Hadashi Pro  · 
    Peacock  ·  Monsieur Onion  ·  Studio OZ  ·  Studio Ado
Digital Paint :   Hiroaki Ishii   Makiko Sato   Ryo Sugino
    Keiichiro Hattori
    Takahashi Production/T2 Studio
    D.R Movie  ·  T&V
CG Production :   Yoshinori Sugano   Yoshiyuki Momose   Mitsunori Kataama
    Masafumi Inoue
Director of Photography :   Atsushi Okui
Camera :   Junji Yabuta   Wataru Takahashi   Tamaki Kojyo
Sound Production :   Omnibus Promotion
Recording Supervisor :   Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
Recording and
Sound Engineer		 :   Shuji Inoue
Sound Effects
Production		 :   Sound Ring
Sound Effects :   Michihiro Ito
Recording Studio :   Wonder Station
    Abaco Creative Studio
    MIT Studio
Editor :   Takeshi Seyama
Assistants
to the Director		 :   Hiroyuki Ito   Kouji Aritomi   Masakatsu Ishisone
Production Manager :   Toshiyuki Kawabata
Publicity Producer :   Masaya Tokuyama
Lab :   IMAGICA
Producer :   Toshio Suzuki
Production :   Studio Ghibli
A Production of :   Tokuma Publishing Co., Ltd
    Nihon TV
    Dentsu
    Studio Ghibli
(full staff credit in Japanese)

 

Additional Staff Credits for Miramax Version
 
Voice Director :   Jack Fletcher
English Script :   Neil Gaiman
(...)

 

Casts

Japanese Voices

Ashitaka:   Youji Matsuda
San:   Yuriko Ishida
Eboshi Gozen:   Yuko Tanaka
Jiko Bou:   Kaoru Kobayashi
Kouroku:   Masahiko Nishimura
Gonza:   Tsunehiko Kamijo
Toki:   Sumi Shimamoto
Moro's Son:   Tetsu Watanabe
Tatari Gami:   Mitsuru Sato
Porter:   Akira Nagoya
Moro no Kimi:   Akihiro Miwa
Hii-Sama:   Mitsuko Mori
Okkotonushi:   Hisaya Morishige
(etc)
(full voice credit in Japanese)
(To see the filmography of each cast member,
visit this film's entry in Japanese Movie Database.)

English (Miramax) Voices

(Spelling of character names may be
different from the final version)
Ashitaka:   Billy Crudup
San:   Claire Danes
Moro:   Gillian Anderson
Eboshi:   Minnie Driver
Jiko Bou:   Billy Bob Thornton
Okkotonushi:   Keith David
Otoki:   Jada Pinkett
With (??)
Angelina Jolie   Matthew Lillard
    Sean "Puffy" Combs
(These three are said to be in the dub,
but not comfirmed.)

 

Award List

(List of awards, in Japanese, at Studio Ghibli website)

 

Note:The English romanization of some Japanese names may be inaccurate.

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