The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
かぐや姫の物語
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)
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya is a movie with 1 episode, from Fall 2013, produced by Studio Ghibli, rated 8.1/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
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)
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Tags
- Tragedy — Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
- Philosophy — Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
- Classic Literature — Discusses or adapts a work of classic world literature.
- Fairy Tale — This work tells a fairy tale, centers around fairy tales, or is based on a classic fairy tale.
- Female Protagonist — Main character is female.
- Historical — Partly or completely set during a real period of world history.
- Family Life — Centers around the activities of a family unit.
- Rural — Partly or completely set in the countryside.
- Gods — Prominently features a character of divine or religious nature.
- Religion — Centers on the belief that humanity is related to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements.
- Primarily Adult Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of characters above a high school age.
- Amnesia — Prominently features a character(s) with memory loss.