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Princess from the Moon is a film of genre Drama directed by Kon Ichikawa released in USA on 14 september 1987 with Toshiro Mifune
Princess from the Moon (1987)
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Add to a movie listPrincess from the Moon (竹取物語 Taketori monogatari) is a 1987 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa and based on The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a centuries-old Japanese fairy tale about a girl from the moon who is discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.
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One day wood cutter Taketori-no-Miyatsuko (Toshiro Mifune) discovers a baby girl while he's out in the forest visiting his daughter's grave. Not wanting to leave the infant to die and because of her resemblance to his dead daughter, he takes the child home with him- only to discover that the child grows at an extraordinarily fast rate. Incredibly beautiful, the now grown child Kaya (Yasuko Sawaguchi) attracts the attention of everyone around her, including the land's Emperor. Unwilling to accept their advances, Kaya gives the men a list of increasingly difficult tasks. By the film's end Kaya returns to outer-space by way of a space ship.Actors
Toshiro Mifune
(Taketori-no-Miyatsuko)
Ayako Wakao
(Tayoshime)
Yasuko Sawaguchi
(Kaya, the Princess Kaguya)
Kōji Ishizaka
(Mikado)
Kiichi Nakai
(Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military)
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