Film: Princess Mononoke (Mononoke hime, Miyazaki Hayao, 1997)Reading: Daisuke Miyao, “Before Anime: Animation and the Pure Film Movement in Pre-warJapan,” Japan Forum 14.2 (2002): 191-209.

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