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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)

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Film details

Featuring

Asakura Aki Kora Kengo Chii Takeo
Country

Japan
Year

2013
Genres

Animation Fantasy
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Alternative titles

Kaguya-hime no monogatari Original
かぐや姫の物語 Original

Synopsis

Adaptation of the Japanese folktale 'The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'. An old couple discover a miniature girl in a bamboo shoot and raise her as their own. As she grows older, she is recognised as a princess and becomes the object of suitors - but an unearthly quality about her suggest another path for her life.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Princess Kaguya, 'Li’l Bamboo'
    
    Asakura Aki
  - Sutemaru
    
    Kora Kengo
  - Okina, bamboo cutter
    
    Chii Takeo
  - Ona, bamboo cutter’s Wife/Narrator
    
    Miyamoto Nobuko
  - Lady Sagami
    
    Takahata Atsuko
  - Menowarawa
    
    Tomoko Tabata
  - Inbe no Akita
    
    Shinosuke Tatekawa
  - Prince Ishitsukuri
    
    Takaya Kamikawa
  - Minister of Finance
    
    Hikaru Ijuin
  - Minister of the Military
    
    Ryudo Uzaki
  - Mikado
    
    Shichinosuke Nakamura
  - Minister of Culture
    
    Isao Hashizume
  - Princess Kaguya, 'Li’l Bamboo'
    
    Chloë Moretz
  - Sutemaru
    
    Darren Criss
  - Okina, bamboo cutter
    
    James Caan
  - Ona, bamboo cutter’s Wife/Narrator
    
    Mary Steenburgen
  - Lady Sagami
    
    Lucy Liu
  - Menowarawa
    
    Hynden Walch
  - Inbe no Akita
    
    George Segal
  - Prince Ishitsukuri
    
    James Marsden
  - Prince Kuramochi
    
    Beau Bridges
  - Lord Minister of the Right Abe
    
    Oliver Platt
  - Great Counsellor Otomo
    
    Daniel Dae Kim
  - Middle Counsellor Isonokami
    
    John Cho
  - The Mikado
    
    Dean Cain
  - Kita no Kata
    
    Emily Bridges
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Isao Takahata
  - ©
    
    Hatake Jimusho
  - ©
    
    GNDHDDTK
  - A Studio Ghibli production
    
    Studio Ghibli
  - Presents
    
    Studio Ghibli
  - Presents
    
    Nippon Television Network Corporation
  - Presents
    
    Dentsu
  - Presents
    
    Hakuhodo DY Media Partners
  - Presents
    
    Walt Disney Japan
  - Presents
    
    Mitsubishi
  - Presents
    
    Toho
  - Presents
    
    KDDI
  - Producer
    
    Nishimura Yoshiaki
  - Producer
    
    Toshio Suzuki
  - Producer
    
    Seiichiro Ujiie
  - Planning
    
    Toshio Suzuki
  - Post-production
    
    Tamaki Kojo
  - Casting
    
    Queen's Promotion
  - Casting
    
    Keiko Ogata
  - Casting
    
    Kaori Sakai
  - Casting
    
    Hazuki Yamamura
  - Written by
    
    Isao Takahata
  - Written by
    
    Sakaguchi Riko
  - Director of Digital Imaging
    
    Keisuke Nakamura
  - Character Design and Directing Animator
    
    Osamu Tanabe
  - Supervising Animator
    
    Kenichi Konishim
  - Editing
    
    Toshihiko Kojima
  - Art Director
    
    Kazuo Oga
  - Titles
    
    Malin Post
  - Colour Setting
    
    Yukiko Kakita
  - Music
    
    Joe Hisaishi
  - Music Performed by
    
    Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
  - Conductor
    
    Joe Hisaishi
  - Sound Designer
    
    Naoko Asari
  - Re-recording Mixer
    
    Kasamatsu, Koji
  - Digital Lab
    
    Imagica

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