Princess from the Moon (1987)
Taketori monogatari (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Toshirô Mifune	...	Taketori-no-Miyatsuko
	Ayako Wakao	...	Tayoshime
	Yasuko Sawaguchi	...	Kaya, the Princess Kaguya
	Kôji Ishizaka	...	Mikado
	Kiichi Nakai	...	Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military
	Koasa Shunpûtei	...	Kuramochi-no-Miko or Minister of Culture
	Takatoshi Takeda	...	Abe-no-Udaijin or Minister of Finance
	Megumi Odaka	...	Akeno
	Katsuo Nakamura	...	Lise
	Shirô Itô	...	Sojo-no-Doson
	Fujio Tokita	...	Shonin-no-Uda
	Takeshi Katô	...	Fujiwara-no-Okuni
	Kyôko Kishida	...	Kougo
	Hirokazu Yamaguchi	...	Metal Carver
	Jun Hamamura	...	Sakanoue-no-Dajo-Daijin

Storyline

Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the original tale, though, in which the girl was a fairy from the moon and was finally taken home. Instead, the film ends with the girl taken home by a spaceship. Written by Gigi Tam <gigitam@hkstar.com>  

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