Princess Mononoke(《幽灵公主》)came back to Chinese cinemas on May 1st ,
2025. The movie first came out in Japan in 1997 and later in America in 1999. It was made by Hayao Miyazak, a famous Japanese animation(动画) director.
The story is about people fighting nature. After being hurt by an evil spirit(邪恶的灵魂), a young man called Ashitaka travels to find help from the Forest Spirit. On his journey, he sees people cutting down the trees to build their town. This makes the forest animals very angry, especially a mother wolf and her human daughter, Princess Mononoke. Ashitaka thinks it's important to make the town better as well as protecting the nature. This puts him into a difficult situation. He tries to make peace between the two sides.
The movie is still popular today because it shows the hard relationship(关系)between humans and nature. The characters are not just good or bad. Everyone acts for their own reasons: some want to protect the forest, while others believe it's better to cut down the trees to develop the town. Their different ideas make them do different things.
Can humans and nature live together in peace? The movie doesn't give an easy answer. But it shows
us that even though the problem is very difficult, we can still choose kindness over hate(憎恨), and try to find a way out.