Hey folks, Harry here. In our efforts to bring you the coolest, not in the mainstream trailers. We bring you our second World Premiere trailer for a cool film. The first one was THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, this time it is Miyazaki's PRINCESS MONONOKE (aka Mononoke Hime) This has been long in the works and was especially important to Moriarty, who feels very strongly about this film and your pursuit of catching it at a theater near you. Meanwhile, we could not bring you this trailer with out the fantastic cooperation of the good folks at Nausicaa.net, who lept at the chance to host the trailer. If you can CO-HOST this trailer... Great. But know this is the first time it has been seen ANYWHERE! Enjoy this special sneak. Next I'm working on getting you the first looks at the trailers for A SLIPPING DOWN LIFE and MAN OF THE CENTURY. So stay tuned!

"PRINCESS MONONOKE" TRAILER DEBUTS ONLINE VIA AICN & NAUSICAA.NET

Greetings, citizens! Robogeek here. I am proud to announce that AICN, in cooperation with Nausicaa.net (the premier Hayao Miyazaki fan site), has been granted permission by Miramax to premiere the trailer for the American release of "Princess Mononoke" online (due in large measure to the tireless efforts of AICN's own Moriarty).

As AICN's resident otaku and most devoted Miyazaki worshipper, it is a great pleasure to share this small peek at this remarkable film, which will be released nationwide Oct. 29 -- over two years after it broke box office records in Japan. The American dubbed version features a translation adapted by Neil Gaiman, and the voice talents of Claire Danes, Billy Crudup, Minnie Driver, Gillian Anderson, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Billy Bob Thornton.

This trailer should be released to theaters in the next week or two, but we hope to have a higher-quality digitization of the trailer available before then (we're working on it). In the meantime, this will give you a sense of a.) how Miramax is marketing the film, and b.) the quality of the voice acting. However, it _nowhere_near_ does justice to the quality of the animation, which is stunning and spellbinding.

You can download the trailer in QuickTime (Cinepak and Sorenson codecs) from the following page: http://www.nausicaa .net/miyazaki/mh/relmedia.html

[NOTE: If you can set up a mirror site to host the trailer, please do so and post the address in Talk Back. We will update this page and the above address accordingly throughout the weekend.]

Thanks to Moriarty, Miramax's L.A. publicity office, and of course Nausicaa.net.

- robogeek@aint-it-cool-news.com

For more information about "Princess Mononoke," I recommend the following from the AICN archives:

Robogeek's "Mononoke" feature article (11/26/97):
http://www.aint-i t-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=302

Sir Moggy's review of the Japanese "Mononoke" (6/18/99):
http://www.aint- it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=3808

Adam Tierney's comparison of the American and Japanese versions of "Mononoke" (8/15/99):
http://www.aint- it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=4198

FreeRide's review of the American "Mononoke" (8/19/99):
http://www.aint- it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=4221

Moriarty's review of the American "Mononoke" (8/22/99):
http://www.aint- it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=4236