![]() When Princess Mononoke was first released in Japan on 12 July 1997, 25 years ago this week, it represented something of a departure for master animator and director Hayao Miyazaki. And I'm like, 'I have never seen anything like this. And now it's raining and the surface is slippery and wet. "But the moment that changed everything for me was the scene where you're looking at this large pebble. "I had zero plans to do it," Gaiman tells BBC Culture. – 11 of the best films to watch this July ![]() – The film that captures millennials' greatest fear So, I'm calling you." Miramax, a then-subsidiary of Disney, had acquired the rights to distribute Princess Mononoke, the newest film from Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli, in the United States, and Weinstein wanted to fly Gaiman to Los Angeles to watch a cut of the movie. I called Quentin Tarantino and said, 'Quentin, will you do the English language script?' And he said, you don't want me, you want Gaiman. So I thought I've got to get the best to do it. "This animated film, Princess Mononoke," Gaiman recalls him saying, "it's the biggest thing in Japan right now. The final storyboards of the film's ending were finished only months before the Japanese premiere date.In 1997, the British fantasy author Neil Gaiman received a call out of the blue from then-head of Miramax, Harvey Weinstein. Miyazaki personally oversaw each of the 144,000 cels in the film, and is estimated to have retouched parts of 80,000 of them. Animation production commenced in July 1995. That same month, Miyazaki and Ando went to the ancient forests of Yakushima, of Kyushu, an inspiration for the landscape of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and the mountains of Shirakami-Sanchi in northern Honshu for location scouting along with a group of art directors, background artists and digital animators for three days. In May 1995, Miyazaki drew the initial storyboards. ![]() In April 1995, supervising animator Masashi Ando devised the character designs from Miyazaki's storyboard. According to Toshio Suzuki, the diversion allowed Miyazaki to return for a fresh start on the creation of Princess Mononoke. This writer's block prompted him to accept a request for the creation of the On Your Mark promotional music video for the Chage and Aska song of the same title. He had difficulties adapting his early ideas and visualisations, because elements had already been used in My Neighbor Totoro and because of societal changes since the creation of the original sketches and image boards. Miyazaki began writing the film's plotline and drew the initial storyboards for the film in August 1994. In the late 1970s, Miyazaki drew sketches of a film about a princess living in the woods with a beast.
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