The first movie in the Mononoke movie trilogy.

Asa and Kame strike up an immediate friendship when they arrive at the same time for their first day of duty at the Ooku, the splendid pleasure palace housing the harem of Lord Tenshi. The two young women are there to join the many hundreds of other maidservants—men are barred from entering, with immediate beheading the price of trespassing. It soon becomes clear that behind the luxurious lifestyle and ritualized routines of the Ooku lie sinister schemes and cynical rivalries. Meanwhile, a mysterious wandering potion-peddler known only as the Medicine Seller subtly insinuates himself into the Ooku, just as an uncanny, otherworldly menace begins to reveal itself.

(Source: Fantasia Film Festival)

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Genres

Studios

• Twin Engine

Staff

• Kunio Tsujita — Color Design
• Taku Iwasaki — Music
• Shigeru Nishiyama — Editing
• Yuuichi Takahashi — Animation Character Design, Chief Animation Director
• Yukio Nagasaki — Sound Director
• Hideki Itou — Storyboard
• Kenji Nakamura — Director , Storyboard
• Kouji Yamamoto — Planning Producer
• Kouhei Hatano — Storyboard
• Yasunori Gotou — Unit Director
• Kiyotaka Suzuki — Assistant Unit Director, Storyboard
• Akira Kuramoto — Art Director
• Kenichi Shirai — CG Director
• Youichi Senzui — Visual Director
• Yuuki Morita — Unit Director
• Jieyu Peng — Unit Director