Kenji Nakamura’s Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage has won the Bronze Audience Award for Best Animated Feature at the 29th Fantasia International Film Festival, held in Montreal, Canada.
The Fantasia International Film Festival, founded in 1966, is the largest genre film festival in North America. The Audience Award is determined by audience votes during the festival. Notably, the first film in the series, Mononoke The Movie: The Phantom in the Rain, also received the Bronze Audience Award at last year’s 28th edition, in addition to winning the Satoshi Kon Award for Best Feature Animation.
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Director: Kenji Nakamura
Character designer: Kitsuneko Nagata
Animation character designer and chief animation director: Yuichi Takahashi
Visual director: Yoichi Senzui
Background art director: Akira Kuramoto
Background art director: Yoko Saito
Color designer: Kunio Tsujita
Music composer: Taku Iwasaki
Animation production: Crew-Cell
Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage is the second installment in the “Mononoke The Movie” trilogy. It will stream exclusively on Netflix starting August 14. The concluding film, “Mononoke The Movie: Chapter III“, is slated for release in Japan in spring 2026.
Mononoke The Movie: The Phantom in the Rain, made its debut on Netflix on July 26, as described by the streaming platform:
In the chambers of the Edo harem, two newcomers uncover political intrigue, rivalry and a vengeful spirit only one traveling medicine seller can vanquish.
Crunchyroll describes the Mononoke series as:
In feudal Japan, evil spirits known as mononoke plague the countryside, leaving a trail of fear in their wake. One mysterious person has the power to slay the mononoke where they stand; he is known as the Medicine Seller, and he vanquishes the spirits using the power of his Exorcism Sword. In order to draw his sword he must understand the Form, Truth and Reason of the mononoke. Armed with a sharp wit, the Medicine Seller wanders from place to place, striking down the evil spirits in his wake.
Source: Comic Natalie
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