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+ The tale of the Princess Kaguya
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+:CreationDate: 2015-12-11 12:39:27
+:Id: anime/review/princess-kaguya
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 4.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-tale-of-princess-kaguya-alt
+
+
+TAKAHATA Isao (高畑 勲) is the other big name of Studio Ghibli: he has
+explored the devastation of post-WWII Japan in Grave of the Fireflies;
+the challenges growing up during the urbanisation and
+industrialisation of the '70s in Only Yesterday; environmentalism,
+integration and assimilation in Pon Poko; daily familial life in My
+Neighbors the Yamadas. For his latest work, he brings to the screen
+the tale of the bamboo cutter, believed to be the oldest Japanese folk
+tale, dating from the 10th century.
+
+As befit the age of the story, Kaguya is drawn in a style reminiscent
+of Japan's traditional watercolours, with charcoal contours and very
+soft tints. The result looks more like a beautiful series of moving
+paintings, than just an animated movie.
+
+The story is simple enough: an old bamboo cutter finds a thumb-sized
+baby girl inside a bamboo stalk, and brings her home to his wife; the
+couple adopts the little girl as their own, calling her Princess. She
+grows rapidly, and befriends the other children in the area.
+
+The cutter finds in other bamboo stalks gold and fine silks, and
+interprets this as a divine sign that his girl must be brought to the
+city and treated like a proper princess. She'd much rather stay in the
+little village with her friends, but her wishes are not considered.
+
+She sort-of settles in the life of a city noble, with private tutors
+and maids, but she keeps a little garden in the back of the house that
+reminds her of the countryside she grew up in. She's given the name of
+Kaguya, and tales of her great beauty start to spread.
+
+Five princes come to ask her hand in marriage, but Kaguya requires of
+the impossible tasks before she'll marry any of them, and none
+succeeds. She even refuses the Emperor's own proposal, always thinking
+back to her happy childhood in the woods.
+
+Finally, she remembers her story: she came from the Moon, to live
+among humans for a while, but now she must go back. Guards and
+fortifications are prepared to defend against the heavenly beings
+who'll come to take her back, but in vain: her fate is with the people
+of the Moon.
+
+The story, and especially this adaptation, explores themes of love and
+family and friendship, the dynamics of power and riches, the dignity
+of work and the dissolution of nobles. As with Takahata's other works,
+Kaguya is less a story than it is a bag of feelings delivered
+masterfully to the audience: you will feel happy, sad, nostalgic,
+exhilarated, dejected, together with the characters. And even without
+any kind of happy ending, you'll still be glad to have experienced all
+of it.