What do you plan to do? What exactly are you here for?
Ashitaka To see with eyes unclouded by hate.
'Eyes unclouded'? [laughs girlishly] That explains it. Come. I'll show you all my secrets.
Voiced by Yoji Matsuda 
Princess Mononoke (1997) · 67 quotes
Princess Mononoke (1997) · 67 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Princess Mononoke (1997): in 10 of its 67 quotes
Most scenes with: San (4), Lady Eboshi (2)
Scenes with Ashitaka
10 scenes Ashitaka [In the midst of Lady Eboshi and San fighting, Ashitaka makes his way through the crowd. He then puts himself between the two, holding them apart]
What do you think you're doing, boy?
Stay your hand. The girl's life is now mine.
[San viciously bites Ashitaka's arm, but he feels no pain from her bite] [mockingly]
I'm sure she'll make a lovely wife for you.
Ashitaka There's a demon inside of you. It's inside both of you.
Ashitaka [San's bite reveals the curse, causing her to recoil in horror and the mob around them to gasp in shock]
Look, everyone! This is what hatred looks like! This is what it does when it catches hold of you! It's eating me alive, and very soon now it will kill me! Fear and anger only make it grow faster!
[annoyed]
I'm getting a little bored of this curse of yours, Ashitaka. Let me just cut the damn thing OFF!
[Eboshi tries to cut off Ashitaka's arm, but he dodges her and hits her hard in the stomach with the handle of his sword, knocking her unconscious. He then does the same thing to San knocking her unconscious and breaking up the fight]
Gate Guard
[Ashitaka arrives at Iron Town's main gate, carrying an unconscious San. A gate guard holds out his hand to stop him.]
Sir, I can't let you pass. The gate's been ordered shut. It can't be opened.
Rifle Guard 1
[Ashitaka walks past him. Two guards with rifles move to bar his path.]
Turn back, please.
Rifle Guard 2
We're grateful to you for bringing those men back to us. We don't want to hurt you.
Rifle Guard 1
Please!
Ashitaka I walked in through this gate this morning. Now I'm going to leave the same way.
Rifle Guard 1
[Ashitaka begins to try and open the gate]
Don't be a fool. It takes ten men to open this gate.
[Slowly, but surely, Ashitaka pushes the gate open with his cursed arm]
[After having rescued San, the wounded Ashitaka falls off his elk, and the two wolves come back to eat him, but San stops them]
Why did you stop me from killing her? Tell me, while you are still alive.
Ashitaka [faintly]
I did not want them to kill you. That's why.
I'm not afraid to die. I'd do anything to get you humans out of my forest.
Ashitaka [weakly]
I knew that, from the first moment I saw you.
And I'm not afraid of you! I should kill you for saving her!
[She takes Ashitaka's sword and puts the tip of the blade inches from his throat]
That woman is evil, and there's no one who can stop me from killing her!
Ashitaka [pleading]
No. Live.
That's enough! I'm not listening to you anymore! [She touches the tip of the sword to Ashitaka's throat]
Ashitaka [on the verge of passing out]
You're.... beautiful.
Wolf
[San steps back, startled by what he has just said]
What is it, San? Want me to crunch his face off?
Even if all the trees grow back, it won't be his forest anymore. The Forest Spirit is dead.
Ashitaka Never. He is life itself. He isn't dead, San. He is here with us now, telling us, it's time for both of us to live.
Kaya
[runs towards to Ashitaka]
Ashitaka!
Ashitaka Kaya, what are you doing here? You know it's forbidden!
Kaya
[holding out her crystal dagger]
Do you think I care about that? I came to give you this, so you won't forget your little sister.
Ashitaka [Kaya is use to take the crystal dagger]
Your crystal dagger. Kaya, I can't take this.
Kaya
Please keep it with you, brother, to protect you. You *must* take it with you. Please, I want you to have it, so you won't... [cries] forget.
Ashitaka [take his mask off]
Kaya, you know I could never forget you.
Sasha Lazard
[sings while San in her sleep]
In the moonlight / I felt your heart / Quiver like a bowstring's pulse / In the moon's mere light / You looked at me / Nobody knows your heart / When the sun has gone / I see you / Beautiful and haunting but cold / Like the blade of a knife so sharp, so sweet / Nobody knows your heart / All of your sorrow grief and pain / Locked away in the forest of the night / Your secret heart belongs to the world / Of the things that sigh in the dark / Of the things that cry in the dark
You know, you could always jump, boy. End it all. As soon as your strength returns, the mark will spread and destroy you.
Ashitaka It feels like I must have been asleep for weeks. I had a dream that San was by my side, nursing me.
Ashitaka I'm fine, thanks to you and the Forest Spirit.
[chuckles]
Ashitaka After you come through the swamp, take cover by the lake until we get there.
Townsman
Right.
Villager
Be careful. Those riflemen with milady belonged to Jigo.
Ashitaka Here, take these. [he take the bow and arrow to the gate villager] Where I’m going, there won’t be of any use. [comforts Yakul] You go with them Yakul. [shouts out] Look after him!
Okotto
[turns into a demon]
I burn. There are flames growing inside of me.
Ashitaka What is it.
[howls loudly in distance]
Ashitaka Is it San.
She’s in danger.
Ashitaka Let’s go.
