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Princess from the Moon (竹取物語 Taketori monogatari) is a 1987 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa and based on The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a centuries-old Japanese fairy tale about a girl from the moon who is discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.

Background

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The film was released as Toho's "55th Anniversary Film" in 1987. Ichikawa noted that he had wanted to make this film for many years, and said his intention was to make it a "film of pure diversion". The film was selected as the opening film of the Tokyo International Film Festival, where it was not well received by critics. Toho promoted the film heavily, and it had the second highest theatrical returns of any film that year, but its financial performance did not equal that of Ichikawa's 1985 release, Harp of Burma.

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The Dragon prop used in this film was originally going to play the role of the Loch Ness Monster in a collaborative project between Toho and Hammer Film Productions, famous for their Gothic horror films, but that project was shelved.

Plot

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One day wood cutter Taketori-no-Miyatsuko (Toshiro Mifune) discovers a baby girl while he's out in the forest visiting his daughter's grave. Not wanting to leave the infant to die and because of her resemblance to his dead daughter, he takes the child home with him- only to discover that the child grows at an extraordinarily fast rate. Incredibly beautiful, the now grown child Kaya (Yasuko Sawaguchi) attracts the attention of everyone around her, including the land's Emperor. Unwilling to accept their advances, Kaya gives the men a list of increasingly difficult tasks. By the film's end Kaya returns to outer-space by way of a space ship.

Cast

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Toshiro Mifune as Taketori-no-Miyatsuko

Ayako Wakao as Tayoshime

Yasuko Sawaguchi as Kaya, the Princess Kaguya

Koji Ishizaka as Mikado

Kiichi Nakai as Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military

Megumi Odaka as Akeno

Katsuo Nakamura as Lise

Takeshi Katō as Fujiwara-no-Okuni

Kyōko Kishida as Kougo

Jun Hamamura as Sakanoue-no-Dajo-Daijin

Koasa Shunpitei as Kuramochi-no-Miko or Minister of Culture

Takatoshi Takeda as Abe-no-Udaijin or Minister of Finance

Shiro Ito as Sojo-no-Doson

Fujio Tokita as Shonin-no-Uda

Hirokazu Yamaguchi as Metal Carver

Gen Idemitsu as Mura-no-Choja

Michiyo Yokoyama as Lise's Wife

Hirokazu Inoue as Ono-no-Fusamori

Miho Nakano as Kaya

Awards and nominations

1988, won Japanese Academy Awards 'Newcomer of the Year' for Megumi Odaka

1988, won Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Art Direction' for Shinobu Muraki

1988, won Japanese Academy Awards 'Special Award' for Teruyoshi Nakano, Kenichi Eguchi, Yasuyuki Inoue, Takeshi Miyanishi, Kazunobu Sanpei, Eiichi Asada, Kohei Mikami, and Hiroshi Shirakawa

1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Film'

1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Director' for Kon Ichikawa

1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Cinematography' for Setsuo Kobayashi

1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Editing' for Chizuko Osada

1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Lighting' for Kazuo Shimomura

1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Music Score' for Kensaku Tanikawa

1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Sound' for Teiichi Saito and Tetsuya Ohashi

1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Supporting Actor' for Toshiro Mifune

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References

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