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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Genres

Studios

• Studio Ghibli

Staff

• Kenichi Konishi — Animation Director
• Hideki Hamasu — Animation
• Joe Hisaishi — Music
• Toshio Suzuki — Planning
• Masashi Andou — Animation
• Kazuo Oga — Art Director
• Isao Takahata — Director, Insert Song Composition, Insert Song Lyrics, Original Plan, Script
• Ayako Hata — Animation
• Osamu Tanabe — Animation Design, Character Design
• Seiichirou Ujiie — Production
• Shinji Ootsuka — Animation
• Kazutaka Ozaki — Animation
• Daizen Komatsuda — Animation
• Chiyomi Tsukamoto — Animation