Princess Mononoke

A prince of a small village is cursed to a slow but certain death by a Boar God. To find a possible cure to the curse, he travels west. He soon comes across a village of iron miners and finds himself in the middle of a battle between the animal gods of the forest, lead by a girl called Princess Mononoke, and the iron miners, lead by a female leader who is trying to create a sanctuary for human outcasts.