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14 September 1987 (USA) morePlot:
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 | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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3 wins & 8 nominations moreUser Comments:
Close Encounters of the Bamboo Cutters Kind moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Toshirô Mifune | ... | Taketori-no-Miyatsuko |
| Ayako Wakao | ... | Tayoshime |
| Yasuko Sawaguchi | ... | Kaya, the Princess Kaguya |
| Koji 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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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.