While the demon curse on his arm gives him supernatural power, he gets exiled from the village. I saw a compelling, complicated tale spin across the screen that night, wherein the last warrior prince of an Emishi village defends it against a rampaging demon and is tainted by it in the fight. I remember being excited as I headed over to the Lagoon Cinema to see Princess Mononoke. I do recall reading that the dude was rumored to hand-paint or hand-illustrate many of the panels in his films the old fashioned way.
I can’t remember if I had already seen My Neighbor Totoro and had fallen in love with Catbus, or if I went on a Miyazaki binge after I saw Mononoke. Then I heard about a movie coming out called Princess Mononoke. Anime was apparently something that creepy white guys liked, and many people seemed to equate anime from Japan with violent, kinky porn. Even though Asian Media Access started showing Hong Kong movies on Friday nights and introduced me to Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, and - my first crush of the HK film era, Brigitte Lin –and by then, I had been indoctrinated into the other nerd appreciation cult for that other great Japanese anime that confused me, Akira- I was hungry for any Asian or Asian American representation that existed outside that niche. I saw everything that even remotely interested me. By then, I was a full fledged wannabe movie buff, often going to see flicks by myself. I was depressed and nihilistic, even though my spoken word career had started to take off. Transforming robots and melodrama? Yes please!įlash forward to 1999, another really rough year for me. What can I say? I was a kid who wanted my entertainment to take me far away from who and where I was, not remind me and challenge me about the real world. The closest thing to Warriors of the Wind in my life was Robotech, which I loved but which often confused me. You can always tell the good guys apart from the bad guys. I thought it was cool, but honestly, I didn’t get it.Ĭartoons were He-Man and Thundercats, GI Joe and Transformers, or the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon I woke up extra early for. Some of my friends were absolutely crazy about it.
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Around 1987 or ’88, I was in junior high and in a funny stasis where my nerd creativity was beginning to grow out of my bookishness (I routinely wrote awful Dungeons and Dragons-type short stories) but before I collided head first into confronting issues like race, violence, and poverty that was all around my world and in my school (I had no idea that my misplacements in advanced math and ESL had to do with my race). Add this to adolescent hormones and - well, to keep it short, it was rough on many different levels.įor whatever reason, one of our shop class teachers wheeled a TV and VCR into class one day and decided to show us a movie called Warriors of the Wind.
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