Princess Mononoke Movie Quotes
Osa
Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
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Hii-sama
You cannot change fate. However, you can rise to meet it, if you so choose.
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Lady Eboshi
What exactly are you here for?
Prince Ashitaka
To see with eyes unclouded by hate.
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San, The Princess Mononoke
Even if all the trees grow back, it won't be his forest anymore. The Forest Spirit is dead.
Prince Ashitaka
Never. He is life itself. He isn't dead, San. He is here with us now, telling us, it's time for both of us to live.
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Jigo
These days, there are angry ghosts all around us - dead from wars, sickness, starvation - and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? So what? So's the whole damn world.
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Lady Eboshi
Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
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San, The Princess Mononoke
Why did you stop me from killing her? Tell me while you're still alive!
Prince Ashitaka
I didn't want them to kill you. That's why.
San, The Princess Mononoke
I'm not afraid to die. I'd do anything to get you humans out of my forest!
Prince Ashitaka
I knew that... from the first moment I saw you.
San, The Princess Mononoke
And I'm not afraid of you! I should *kill* you for saving her!
[San turns Ashitaka around, takes out his sword, and aims it inches over his neck]
San, The Princess Mononoke
That woman is evil, and there's no one who can stop me from killing her.
Prince Ashitaka
No... Live...
San, The Princess Mononoke
That's enough! I'm not listening to you anymore!
[presses tip to throat]
[San gasps, jumps back]
San's Wolf Brother
What is it, San? Want me to crunch his face off?
[all stare at Ashitaka for a moment... until a rock sails in and breaks the moment]
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[first lines]
Narrator
In ancient times, the land lay covered in forests, where, from ages long past, dwelt the spirits of the gods. Back then, man and beast lived in harmony, but as time went by, most of the great forests were destroyed. Those that remained were guarded by gigantic beasts who owed their allegiances to the Great Forest Spirit. For those were the days of gods and of demons...
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Kôhroku
[testing his arm]
My arm... It doesn't hurt anymore. It's *healed!*
[bones crack]
Kôhroku
OW! No, it's still broken.
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Lady Eboshi
Now watch closely, everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god. A god of life and death. The trick is not to fear him.
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San, The Princess Mononoke
Ugh, I smell like a human.
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San, The Princess Mononoke
Ashitaka, you mean so much to me, but I can't forgive the humans for what they've done.
Prince Ashitaka
I understand. You'll live in the forest, and I'll help rebuild Irontown.
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Moro
Ah, you're awake. I was hoping you'd cry out in your sleep, then I would have bitten your head off to silence you.
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Prince Ashitaka
Stay your hand. The girl's life is now mine.
[San viciously bites Ashitaka's arm]
Lady Eboshi
I'm sure she'll make a lovely wife for you.
Prince Ashitaka
There's a demon inside you. It's inside both of you.
[the curse remanifests as a mass of worm-like tendrils, shocking everyone]
Prince Ashitaka
[to the crowd]
Look, everyone! *This* is what hatred looks like! This is what it does when it catches hold of you! It's eating me alive, and very soon it will kill me!
[San tries to make the curse leave her alone]
Prince Ashitaka
Fear and anger only make it grow faster!
Lady Eboshi
I'm getting a little bored of this curse of yours, Ashitaka. Let me just cut the damn thing - *off!*
[swings her needle at Ashitaka]
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Toki
Thanks, stranger. My husband's an idiot, but I'm glad he's safe and sound.
Prince Ashitaka
That's a relief. I was starting to think I'd done something wrong by bringing him back home.
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Jigo
When you're going to kill a god, let someone else do your dirty work.
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messenger from Lord Asano
You ladies need to be taught some respect!
Female fire worker
Respect? What's that?
Female fire worker
We haven't had any respect since the day we were born!
[the women collectively give the messenger the "raspberry"]
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Kaya
Ashitaka!
Prince Ashitaka
Kaya, what are you doing here? You know it's forbidden!
Kaya
[holding out her crystal dagger]
Do you think I care about that? I came to give you this, so you won't forget your little sister.
Kaya
Please keep it with you, brother, to protect you. You *must* take it with you. Please, I want you to have it, so you won't... forget.
Prince Ashitaka
Kaya, you know I could never forget you.
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Kôhroku
Huh, I didn't know the Forest Spirit made the flowers grow.
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Prince Ashitaka
Well, they say that happy women make a happy village.
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Lady Eboshi
They're just pups. Wait 'til you see their mother.
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Toki
Why don't you take off your mask? I bet you're really handsome...
[later, when Ashitaka pulls his mask off]
Toki
Hey...! You're not handsome, you're *gorgeous!*
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Jigo
Well, I give up. Can't win against fools.
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San, The Princess Mononoke
You two go on ahead. I'll stay here and deal with the human.
San's Wolf Brother
What about the elk?
San's Wolf Brother
Yes... Can we eat him?
[starts panting]
San, The Princess Mononoke
No, you may not. Go home!
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Toki
I wish the wolves *had* eaten you! Then maybe I could've found a real husband.
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Jigo
Are you selling soup or donkey piss?
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Boar in Okkoto's Tribe
The Forest Spirit saved *him?* Saved the life of this loathsome runt? Why didn't he save Nago? Is he not the guardian of the forest? Why?
Moro
The Forest Spirit gives life and takes life away. Life and death are his alone. Or have you boars forgotten than?
Boar in Okkoto's Tribe
*You lie!* You must have begged the Forest Spirit to spare his life! But you did not beg for Nago, did you?
Moro
Nago was afraid to die. Now, I too, carry within my breast a poisoned human bullet. Nago fled, and the darkness took him. I remain, and contemplate my death.
San, The Princess Mononoke
Mother, please ask the Forest Spirit to save you!
Moro
I have lived long enough, San. Soon, the Great Forest Sprit will let me rest forever.
San, The Princess Mononoke
All these years, you've defended the Forest Spirit! He *must* save you!
Boar in Okkoto's Tribe
You are not fooling us! Nago was beautiful and strong! He would not have run from anything! You wolves must have eaten him!
San, The Princess Mononoke
Quiet! Watch what you say, you filthy pig!
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Lady Eboshi
[as Ashitaka tries to keep his arm from drawing his sword]
Does that right hand of yours wish to kill me, Ashitaka?
Prince Ashitaka
[struggling]
If it would lift the curse, I'd let it tear you apart. But even that wouldn't end the killing now, would it?
Lady Eboshi
No, it wouldn't. It would have to kill all of us to be at peace.
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Okkoto
Look on my tribe, Moro. We grow small, and we grow stupid. We will soon be nothing but squealing game... that the humans hunt for their meat.
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Amishi Elder
I am the eldest of the Amishi. Our tribe was driven here by the ravages of the Emperor. Now our youngest warrior must cut his hair and go off into the unknown? Sometimes I think the Gods are laughing at us.
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Moro
Now leave this place at sunrise. Return, and I shall kill you.
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San's Wolf Brother
Apes! How *dare* you show such disrespect to the wolf clan!
Ape Tribe
This is our forest.
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The human... Give him to us.
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Give us the human and go.
San's Wolf Brother
*You* go, before my *fangs* find you.
Ape Tribe
We will not go.
Ape Tribe
We will eat the human.
Ape Tribe
Yes... we will eat the man creature.
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[San's first line]
San, The Princess Mononoke
Go away.
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Lady Eboshi
Stay here. Help me kill the Forest Spirit, Ashitaka.
Prince Ashitaka
You would do that? Kill the very heart of the forest?
Lady Eboshi
Without that ancient god, the animals here would be nothing but dumb beasts once again. Once the forest has been cleared and the wolves wiped out, this desolate place will become the richest land in the world... and Princess Mononoke will become human.
Prince Ashitaka
"Princess Mononoke"?
Lady Eboshi
Princess of the spirits of ghouls, beasts, and ancient gods. The wolf stole her soul, and now she lives to kill me.
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Jigo
Give the head back now? Come on, boy. Don't be silly. Now, when the sun's about to come up? Look! He's a brainless, life-sucking god of death. At sunrise he'll vanish like a bad dream.
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San, The Princess Mononoke
[trapped in Okkoto's corruption]
No! I don't wanna become a demon! Please stop, Okkoto!
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[Ashitaka walks forward, the curse manifesting on his arm]
[Ashitaka continue to approach, grabbing Gonza's sword by the blade]
Prince Ashitaka
Step aside.
[Ashitaka walks past him, leaving traces of the curse on Gonza's sword; Gonza suddenly holds it at a distance, whimpering]
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Hii-sama
My prince, are you prepared to learn what fate the stones have foretold you?
Prince Ashitaka
Yes. I was prepared the very moment that I let my arrow fly.
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Prince Ashitaka
[Sees riflemen readying guns]
It's a trap. No, wait! Princess of the wolf-gods, don't go down there! Go back to the forest! Listen to me, please, don't throw your life away!
San, The Princess Mononoke
[Wolf howls in distance, readies knife and charges down roof towards Lady Eboshi]
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Toki
Big dope. Don't ask me why I love him.
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Jigo
What do you say we give 'em a little demonstration of how fast we can run, huh?
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Prince Ashitaka
To see with eyes unclouded by hate.
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San, The Princess Mononoke
Are you crazy? Just what happened to make the ape tribe change this way? Since when do apes eat the flesh of a man?
Ape Tribe
If we eat the human, we will steal his strength, and we will drive the other humans away.
Ape Tribe
Give us the man creature.
San, The Princess Mononoke
Stop this. You know you can't possess the humans' strength by eating them. All that'll do is make you into something else, something even worse than human.
Ape Tribe
We plant trees. Humans tear them up. The forest does not come back. If we kill the humans, we will save the forest.
Ape Tribe
You mustn't give up. We'll find a way. The Forest Spirit is with us. Go on planting your trees and someday we'll beat them.
San's Wolf Brother
ENOUGH! I'll *bite* your head off, you chattering ape.
[they started charging]
San, The Princess Mononoke
Stop! Wait! Come back! Leave them alone!
[they statred coming back not to fight them back]
San, The Princess Mononoke
Don't worry about them. It's all right.
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Boar in Okkoto's Tribe
We are here to kill the humans and save the forest. Why are there humans here, Moro?
Moro
Humans are everywhere these days. Go back to your own mountain. Kill them there. The girl is San, my daughter.
Boar in Okkoto's Tribe
We will kill them here. We will save this forest. What is that other human doing here?
San, The Princess Mononoke
He was shot, and then the Great Spirit healed his wound. This man is not our enemy!
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