Hayao Miyazaki's magical box office hit in Japan is re-presented here for the US and UK market using voices of Hollywood stars such as Gillian Anderson and Minnie Driver. Ashitaka is a young warrior who travels to the forests of the west in order to search for the cure which will save him from a terrible curse. But almost as soon as he arrives he gets caught up in the prolonged battle which rages between the humans and the forest animals, the former being led by Lady Eboshi, and the latter by Princess Monoke, a young woman raised by wolves.