“When gods bleed and men forget, the forest remembers.” 

Cursed by the fury of a demon boar, Prince Ashitaka (Tom Holland) is exiled from his homeland and driven toward a land where ancient spirits clash with iron and fire.  His journey leads him into the heart of a sacred forest under siege—where gods still walk, beasts still speak, and humanity’s hunger threatens to erase everything untouched by steel.

There, he encounters San (Anya Taylor-Joy), the feral warrior known as Princess Mononoke—raised by wolves, bound to the forest, and unafraid to spill human blood to protect the world that gave her life. As iron-forging colonists, commanded by a ruthless warlord voiced by Ken Watanabe, tear deeper into the ancient woods, the fragile balance between nature and civilization collapses with terrifying force.

Boar gods thunder through burning trees, wolf packs soar across shattered battlements, and the Forest Spirit glides over moonlit marshes, dispensing life and death with divine indifference.  Caught between hatred and hope, Ashitaka and San must confront what they truly are to each other—enemies, allies, or the final bridge between two worlds destined to destroy one another. Their choices will determine whether the forest dies in flames… or whether humanity learns, at last, to bow before something greater than itself. 

 Rating: 9.1/10 — a visually awe-inspiring, emotionally ferocious, and hauntingly powerful live-action reimagining of a timeless masterpiece.