The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

Kaguya-hime no Monogatari

Okina is a bamboo cutter in ancient rural Japan. One day in the forest, he finds a tiny baby in the folds of a bamboo shoot. He brings the creature home to his wife Ounaa and they decide to keep her and raise her as a princess. She is clearly not of this world. Kaguya grows at an unnatural rate, soon maturing into an uncommonly beautiful young woman. Since Okina has now also found a cache of gold and treasure in the forest, every suitor wants Kaguya. But this is not a fairy tale of courtship and marriage.

(Source: Toronto International Film Festival)

SEASONS, OVAs, MOVIES & SPECIALS

4 ENTRIES

ALTERNATIVE · MOVIEKaguya-hime (1961)—

ALTERNATIVE · MANGATaketori Monogatari—

ALTERNATIVE · MOVIEKaguya-hime (1972)—

ALTERNATIVE · MOVIEKaguya-hime—

CHARACTERS

1 MAIN · 7 SUPPORTING

Kaguya-himeMAINAki Asakura

SutemaruSUPPORTINGKengo Koura

OkinaSUPPORTINGTakeo Chii

Inbe no AkitaSUPPORTINGShinosuke Tatekawa

SagamiSUPPORTINGAtsuko Takahata

MenowarawaSUPPORTINGTomoko Tabata

OunaSUPPORTINGNobuko Miyamoto

MikadoSUPPORTINGNakamura Shichinosuke II