Studio Ghibli’s archive is the key to its 4K restoration process

Atsushi Okui sees the Princess Mononoke 4K remaster as a testament to the power of celluloid.

Atsushi Okui sees the Princess Mononoke 4K remaster as a testament to the power of celluloid.

Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

When Princess Mononoke first debuted back in 1997, it marked a major turning point for Studio Ghibli. The studio had already dabbled in computer-generated imagery and digital compositing with films like Isao Takahata’s Pom Poko and Yoshifumi Kondō’s Whisper of the Heart. But Mononoke was the first instance

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