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The passing a day that seems just like any other, but in an instant can change the course of many lives. In the views of people, what they think is for the greater good of their people, can be devastating to others. The war between the Great Forest and Iron Town proved to be the changing point that everyone needed to open their eyes. Ashitaka is the last hope to restore order and see the world with eyes unclouded by hearted.
Princess Mononoke directed by Hayao Miyazaki in 1997 is a tale with a young prince of the Emishi people, Ashitaka, defending his village from what seemed like a demon. The demon was one a boar lord named Nago. He had been consumed by rage from the human destroying his forest, Nago had built up such hatred that it changed him, and he was blinded to anything around him. After his death, even after they offered to raise a burial in his honor, so he will not bear them any hatred in the afterlife.
During the battle Ashitaka was cursed by the demon and the wise woman used her stones to determine his fate. The curse will spread through his body and eventually kill him. Thus he was banished from his village in order to lift the curse and find out all the unrest that was happening in the west. Upon leaving his village he came across another that was on the verge of a massacre. Ashitaka using bow began to let his arrow fly, but the power of the curse increased his strength and overwhelmed the soldiers. Jigo a wandering monk was saved from the attack on the village, and found Ashitaka in the next village over. He meets him in another village while he is replenishing his supplies and begins to tell him the Great Forest Spirit that might be able to lift the cures.
After a wolf attack from one of the spirit gods, Moro...

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...t who roams over the forest and protects it. Corruption begins to pour from the body and kills living being that it touches in search of its head which Jigo has taken with him.
The forest begins to decay and the Kodama fall to the ground and dissolve. San and Ashitaka chase after Jigo in order to return the head before the end of the night. Both of them manage to return the head just in time. The Forest Spirit falls into the lake, destroying Iron Town. The forest and land start to come back to life, and the curse that was placed on San and Ashitaka was lifted.
The battle had subsided with the death if the Great Spirit. San decides that she still cannot forgive humans and will remain in the forest. Eboshi has seen the error of her ways and vows to rebuild Iron Town, an even better one. The lives of everyone that Ashitaka had encounter had been changed for the better

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