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5 days ago · The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) by Studio Ghibli A Captivating Narrative. The film opens with a bamboo cutter making a remarkable discovery: a tiny girl nestled within a glowing bamboo shoot. Believing her of divine origin, the bamboo cutter and his wife raise her as their own, bestowing her the name “Princess.”
Watch “Isao Takahata and His Tale of the Princess Kaguya.” It’s a making-of documentary. And in that movie Takahata literally states that his interpretation of the fairy tale is that the ending, when she goes back to the moon, is actually about death.
19 hours ago · Other Ghibli movies during the era include When Marnie Was There (Omoide no Marnie) — just like many others, based on a Western book — and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari). The last is particularly unusual, as it gives a new spin to a classical Japanese myth — not the kind of source material we see very often.
1 day ago · The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is one of Studio Ghibli's lesser-known films, but its timeless message will get a chance to resonate with new audiences given a live-action adaptation. The film tells the tale of a tiny nymph found inside a stalk of bamboo as she comes of age and earns the title of Princess ...
2 days ago · The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013) Isao Takahata, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli alongside Hayao Miyazaki, capped his brilliant career with this Academy Award-nominee based on the 1,000-year-old ...
3 days ago · My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Porco Rosso, Spirited Away… At the very beginning of 2020, Netflix pulled off a nice coup by recovering the entire catalog of Studios Ghibli, everywhere in the world (including France), with the exception of North America and Japan. The 22 films –
Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation film studio founded in June 1985 by the director Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and the producer Toshio Suzuki.
