Tale of the Princess Kaguya (subtitled version)

Nominee
Best Animated Feature
Academy Awards
Winner
Best Animation
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is a marvel of Japanese animation, a hand-drawn, painterly epic that submerges us in a world of beauty.
-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (subtitled version)

From Studio Ghibli, the studio that brought you the Academy Award®-winning Spirited Away, comes a powerful and soaring epic that redefines animated storytelling and marks a triumphant highpoint within an extraordinary filmmaking career for director and studio co-founder Isao Takahata. Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her – but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime. Drector Isao Takahata’s final film was nominated for an Academy Award® and hailed as a masterpiece by critics.
PG
Genre
Animated, Drama, Fantasy
Runtime
155
Language
Japanese
Director
Isao Takahata
Writer(s)
Isao Takahata, Riko Sakaguchi
Cast
Aki Asakura, Yukiji Asaoka, Takeo Chii, Isao Hshizume
Awards:
Nominee, Best Animated Feature, Academy Awards
Winner, Best Animation, Los Angeles Film Critics Association
FEATURED REVIEW
Ella Taylor, NPR

My first encounter with the lovely 10th-century Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter was in the Sesame Street special Big Bird Goes to Japan. A kind and beautiful young woman named Kaguya-hime appears out of nowhere to take the Yellow One and his canine pal Barkley on a jaunt to Kyoto ...

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