Michael B. Jordan names Princess Mononoke his favorite film

Michael B. Jordan is famously a big old nerd with a deep love for anime, and when asked about his favorite movie while holding his Oscar after his Best Actor win for Sinners at the 98th Academy Awards, he replied without hesitation: Princess Mononoke. Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 historical fantasy grew from inspirations he had been mulling over since 1980, including literary classics, postmodern environmentalism, and feminist theory.

It was the first time Miyazaki combined his hand-drawn animation with computer-generated imagery, even as he maintained that the primary “tool of an animator is the pencil,” and the film is often called his angriest to date. Set in Japan’s Muromachi era, the story opens with the last Emishi prince Ashitaka cursed after he kills a boar god to protect his village.

A monk tells him to seek the Shishigami, and on his journey he meets Lady Eboshi, who runs Irontown by deforesting the surrounding land, and the wolf god Moro and her feral human daughter San.

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