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6.7/10   89 votes
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Director:
Kon Ichikawa
Writers:
Shinya Hidaka (writer)
Kon Ichikawa (writer)
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Release Date:
14 September 1987 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | History | Sci-Fi more
Plot:
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... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 8 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(6 articles)
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 (From Cinematical. 29 September 2009, 4:15 PM, PDT)
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 (From Beyond Hollywood. 29 September 2009, 4:07 AM, PDT)
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Close Encounters of the Bamboo Cutters Kind more (1 total)

Cast

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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 Shunputei ... 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
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Kaguya
Princess from the Moon (USA)
The Tale of Taketori (literal English title)
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Runtime:
121 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
UK:PG
Company:
Fuji Television Network more

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Version of Kaguya hime (1935) more
Soundtrack:
Stay With Me more

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Close Encounters of the Bamboo Cutters Kind, 17 March 2007
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Author: KBeee from London

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

The old Japanese folktale of the Bamboo Cutter is here reinterpreted to make Kaguya an alien visitor. Sticking fairly closely to the original 9th century tale of a bamboo cutter finding a mysterious baby girl, this film puts a modern spin onto it by turning the beautiful visitor from the moon into an alien entity lost from a crashed spaceship. Sounds silly, but.... It keeps the original story but "explains" what really happened to our modern sensibilities. I'd have preferred the more traditional folktale ending, but despite the Close Encounters of the Third Kind finale, this film still shines some light into that REALLY alien world, Heian Japan.

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