The Best Episodes of Mononoke Season 1

The Medicine Seller unravels the mystery and finds the truth behind the passenger's stories.

Director: Kenji Nakamura

Writer: Michiko Yokote

The Medicine Seller unmasks the masked creature while revealing the life of Ochou, the enslaved housewife.

Director: Yukihiko Nakao

Writer: Manabu Ishikawa

The Medicine Seller takes over the responsibility of refereeing the incense competition while prying into the real reason these three men have gathered here - the Toudaiji.

Director: Kôji Yamazaki

Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka

Unable to leave the train under threat of death, the passengers reveal what they know about an event that affected them all.

Director: Hidehito Ueda

Writer: Ikuko Takahashi

Genkei the monk explains what happened to him when he was younger as the Medicine Seller inspects the submerged craft thrown up by the seamonster.

Director: Kohei Hatano

Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka

Trapped in jail, a woman named Ochou confesses to the murder of her husband and his family. The Medicine Seller has reason to doubt this and visits her, coming across a creature with thousands of faces.

Director: Hidehito Ueda

Writer: Manabu Ishikawa

Skipping ahead a few centuries, the Medicine Seller boards a train filled with seemingly unrelated people, and before long find themselves trapped in limbo.

Director: Kohei Hatano

Writer: Ikuko Takahashi

The Medicine Seller delves into the inn's past as he attempts to understand the ghost's motivations and history, before it can interfere with Shino.

Director: Sumio Watanabe

Writer: Sumio Watanabe

Four men should have turned up to the house of Lady Ruri in a bid to win her hand in marriage. However, one of them has disappeared, so the Medicine Seller takes his place in the traditional incense competition taking place.

Director: Kôji Yamazaki

Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka

The Medicine Seller tries to find out who diverted the ship and why, as the crew is terrorised by a ghost who forces them to reveal their deepest fears.

Director: Yoshihisa Matsumoto

Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka

The Medicine Seller checks into the last room of a traditional inn, just as a pregnant woman named Shino desperately asks for shelter. She is given a secret room - a room possessed by a group of ghosts.

Director: Kenji Nakamura

Writer: Ikuko Takahashi

The Medicine Seller takes a journey on a merchant's luxurious ship, but before long the craft is diverted into the Dragon's Triangle, an area of the sea infested with ghosts.

Director: Mana Uchiyama

Writer: Chiaki J. Konaka