The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

  • Director: Isao Takahata
  • Writer: Isao Takahata,Riko Sakaguchi
  • Countries of origin: Japan
  • Language: Japanese
  • Release date: November 23, 2013
  • Sound mix: Datasat, Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
  • "The Story of かぐや姫の物语" is an animated film produced by Toho Cinemas , directed by Takahata Isao , and dubbed by Aki Asakura , Kengo Kôra , Chii Takeo , etc. It was released in Japan on November 23, 2013.
    The film is based on Japan's oldest story "たけとりものがたり". It tells the story of Kaguya who was born in bamboo and grew up under the care of Mr. and Mrs. Chuzhu Weng, and finally returned to the moon palace   .

    Details

    • Release date November 23, 2013
    • Production companies Studio Ghibli, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners

    Box office

    Budget

    ¥5,000,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $974,913

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $54,915

    Gross worldwide

    $24,706,166

    Movie reviews

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    • By Collin 2022-04-24 07:01:17

      "The Story of Kaguya Princess": Ink and Wash Sadness

      The story of the movie comes from Japan's oldest legend - "The Tale of Bamboo". After watching it, you will be sighed and saddened.

      The ink painting style of the whole film is refreshing, clean and spotless. The production team led by Isao Takahata has brought minimalism to the extreme. Never forget.

      Looking at such simple and pure lines and...

    • By Adonis 2022-04-24 07:01:17

      The film is a universal fable about life and death, crime and punishment.

      The film is adapted from Japan's oldest legend, "The Tale of Bamboo Tori". It tells the story of a moon fairy who came down to earth and was raised by the Bamboo Tori Weng couple. In an instant, the thumb girl grew up into a princess who overwhelmed all living beings.

      A long time ago, an elderly couple without children lived alone in the mountains, cutting bamboo for a...

    • By Clement 2022-04-23 07:03:26

      Kaguya Story

      2015.2.21 The
      painting style is very beautiful! The music is also good! Wherever they are, they are popular with good looks... Whoever follows the heart, the ones who really follow the heart are all blind people! Those who have eyes will yearn for beauty! All want to have a heart that will not be separated, but that heart must also have a good skin. The simple have no money, the rich are stingy, the handsome and philandering, the powerful and snobbish. It took 3 years to fall in love with t

    • By Bertram 2022-04-23 07:03:26

      Feel Alive - "Kaguya Night Talk" Film Review

      A long time ago, there was a mountain on which there was a bamboo forest, and in the bamboo forest lived the old couple Bamboo Tori. One day, when he was going up the mountain to chop bamboo, Zhu Touweng found that a baby was born in a bamboo... The beginning of a typical Japanese myth, Liao Liao and a few words have made people imagine.
      I remember that this animated film directed by Isao Takahata was produced and released at the same time as Hayao Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises". The finale...

    • By Curtis 2022-04-23 07:03:26

      Comparison between Kaguya and Ocean Story——On "Alive"

      In fact, after reading Song of the Ocean and then seeing the comments below it, it is very similar to Kaguya, so I read it with a more literary heart.
      Love myths and legends like Bamboo Story and Celtic Sea Lion Spirit, such ancient stories make me feel closer to the origin of the world. Speaking of origins, in fact, the Genesis of religion, various legends in literary myths, the Big Bang in physics and the recently discovered gravitational waves are actually different ways of looking at...

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    • By Frederic 2023-07-18 10:41:31

      "I want to live a life like a bird and a beast" - the original intention of yearning for freedom and sincerity, it is touching, and the style of painting is free, concise and...

    • By Lavonne 2023-07-01 19:46:38

      Be sure to watch Takahata's "Old Rare...

    • By Johnathan 2023-06-27 05:16:59

      How did I just see this cartoon, old tears from beginning to end. I don't know if the original is moving or the director's adaptation is moving. Birth, growth, life, temptation, emotion... a little bit of the beauty and sadness of life. This story is a bit like The Legend of the Five Wisdom...

    • By Davonte 2023-06-09 03:51:25

      After reading the introduction, I realized that this is actually "Miss Bamboo" I read when I was young. I was not literate at that time, but the story is still fresh in my memory. And the style of painting is too beautiful, whether it is delicate and contented, or swaying with grief and anger, it is full of classical oriental poetry. But the most shocking thing is this story. Looking back now, I finally understand the bitterness. We miss our childhood, but we always grow up too fast and can't...

    • By Bo 2023-06-07 09:39:47

      All beauty is sad. The details are very attentive, and the emotions are completely driven by the rush of the moonlit night. But simple stories don't really need so much space to tell, and they feel verbose....

    Movie plot

    On the hills lightly locked in the morning mist, there was a rhythmic sound of percussions not far away. It was a civilian grandfather ( voiced by ChiiTakeo ) who was cutting bamboo. When he was carrying the bamboo to go down the mountain, he was suddenly attracted by a wonderful flash of light. Next to a piece of bamboo, bamboo shoots bloom leisurely like a lotus, and at the center of the "stamen" sits a lazy and cute little man in...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    The film is the posthumous work of Chii Takeo, who died on June 29, 2012 at the age of 70. Takahata Isao, who has always been pursuing realistic effects, adopted the method of pre-recorded dialogue. In the summer of 2011, he completed the recording of ChiiTakeo, so he was able to leave the last voice of the old man. The role dubbing in "The Story of かぐや姫の物語" also became ChiiTakeo's career. The last performance. Subsequent parts of the...
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    The creation background ofかぐや姫の物语

    In 1999, "My Neighbors the Yamadas (ホーホケキョとなりの山田くん)", which was highly praised and unpopular, returned with a feather, and director Takahata Isao began a 14-year silence. Until the winter of 2013, Hiroshi Takada, who was 78 years old, returned to the theater with the eight-year-old production of "The Story of かぐや姫の物語".
    The concept of the film can be traced back to the Toei Animation era. The director Uchida Tome once adapted "たけとりものがたり"...
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    Production content

    Before Takahata Isao released "The Story of Heiji", he originally proposed to the film producer of Studio Ghibli,すずきとしお, that the " Heike Monogatari " handed down by the ancient Japanese Heike family should be adapted into an animation, and he invited the animator Tian in Ghibli. Bian Xiu is responsible for the main animation processing. But then Osamu Tanabe declined to "do not like to create animations in which people fight and kill...
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    Music

    When the news of "The Story of かぐや姫の物語" was released; the animation soundtrack in the play was designated to be in charge of Shinichiro Ikebe, and was later replaced by Joe Hisaishi. This is also the first non-Yumiya Hisaishi experience in taking over the animated soundtrack of Ghibli. Works directed by Hayao Saki. Hisaishi has already wanted to participate in the animation soundtrack directed by Takahata Isao since he served as the...
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    Related works

    After the film was broadcast, the film producer Nishimura Yoshiaki launched a communication software to celebrate the publication of the work by launching a communication software with the Kaguya Ji shape stickers that I used, and it will be available for download for a limited time from November 19, 2013.
    "Takahata Isao's 933 Days of Legend of "The Story of かぐや姫の物語"" is a valuable documentary that records the entire process of Ghibli's...
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    Evaluation action

    The adaptation of "Kazumi no Monogatari" to Japan's earliest monogatari work "たけとりものがたり" is not only the rewriting of the story content, but also the inheritance and development of Japanese traditional literary aesthetics. The film is extremely harmonious and unified from the inner story content to the outer artistic expression. The film organically sorts out the content of the original story, and makes appropriate deletions according...
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    Movie quotes

    • The Princess Kaguya: [singing] Go round, come round, come round... come round, oh distant time. Come round, call back my heart. Come round, call back my heart. Birds, bugs, beasts, grass, trees, flowers. Teach me how to feel. If i hear that you pine for me, i will return to you.