Toei’s Mononoke the Movie: Phantom successful the Rain from manager Kenji Nakamura is 1 of this year’s astir visually stunning anime films, and it’s making its mode to Netflix successful conscionable a fewer weeks.
Like the Mononoke series, Phantom successful the Rain tells the communicative of an unnamed merchant (Hiroshi Kamiya) who, successful summation to selling medicines, specializes successful exorcizing “mononoke” — malevolent spirits who terrorize the living. When the Medicine Seller arrives astatine the imperial palace, his senses archer him that a mononoke is lurking determination heavy wrong the building’s innermost chambers.
As a man, the Medicine Seller is forbidden from stepping ft wrong of the imperial harem of women similar Asa (Tomoyo Kurosawa) and Kame (Aoi Yūki), who person gathered successful hopes of becoming mothers to the adjacent royal heir. But with the mononoke’s beingness posing a menace to the full palace, the Medicine Seller has to interruption its rules, and Netflix’s caller trailer for the movie gives you a consciousness of the dazzling chaos that ensues.
As gorgeous arsenic the movie is, you’d deliberation Netflix would person been making much sound astir it good successful beforehand of its November 28th streaming premiere. But astatine the precise least, we won’t person to hold agelong to spot it.