Eventually, after a run-in with some intruding samurai, including a goofy yet conniving priest named Jigo, Ashitaka and Yakul crossed paths with an old Irontown. After counseling over it with the villagers, they all agreed to banish Ashitaka out of precaution, and he was left to wander the Japanese landscapes in search of the source of his curse.
In the quarrel, Ashitaka was infected by the curse that infected the demon spirit, which happened to be a boar god, and his arm carried a continually expanding scar. Set around the late Muromachi period, this epic film tells the story of a young prince named Ashitaka, who, along with his trusty red elk, Yakul, lived in a village when a nearby spirit demon made up of devilish-like worms squirming all around its body emerged and attacked the villagers before Ashitaka intervened.
