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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (film)

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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is a 2013 film about a mystical princess named "Kaguya". The film is based on a 10th century story named The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.

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Directed by Isao Takahata. Written by Isao Takahata.
A princesses crime and punishment.  (taglines)

Kaguya

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  • If you wish to accuse me of disobedience to His Majesty then feel free to kill me. If your happiness depends on a courtier’s cap then I will go to him. When I see you wearing that cap, then I will kill myself.
  • There’s joy, there’s grief. All who live here feel them in all their different shades. There’s birds, bugs, beasts, grass, trees, flowers, and feelings.

Okina (the bamboo cutters wife)

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  • It’s me Heaven’s blessed! I’m the one who’ll raise her.
  • ‘If I hear that you pine for me, I will return to you. If you are truly waiting for me… I will come straight back.’

Other

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  • Lady Sagami: [after Kaguya had asked to swim] You most certainly may not! A noble princess does not frolic and dance around in such a manner.
  • Inbe no Akita: [Talking about Kaguya] The moment I stood before her, this aged body began to tremble as if a dry fountain had come back to life. Just the memory of that glimmering beauty leaves me completely lost for words!
  • Prince Ishitskuri: [Speaking to Kaguya for the first time] I am Prince Ishitsukuri! If you consent to being my wife… I will worship you day and night, my forehead to the ground… as I would the stone begging bowl of Lord Buddha himself in India.

Dialogue

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Prince Ishitsukuri: [attempting to win over Kaguya] Ah! My feelings for you bloomed unknown, I thought. Just like that flower. Suddenly the realization dawned… That what I wanted to give you… And you wanted to receive… Was not some unattainable treasure, but that flower. In other words, the symbol of my devotion to you.
Kaguya: ‘Devotion’…
Prince Ishitsukuri:

[Ishitskuri pulls back the blinds to reveal his wife, Kita.]

Sanuki no Miyatsuko: What?!

Kita: ‘Somewhere that is not here’? I would very much like to be taken there again.

Prince Ishitsukuri: I’m sorry! Forgive me!

Kita: How many flowers… have you plucked and thrown away… leaving them to shave their heads in despair… and become nuns?

Kaguya: [Feeling at fault after hearing Middle counselor Isonokami had died] This garden! It’s a fake! Fake! Fake! Fake! Fake! All of it! Fake! And so am I!
Okina: Stop it!
Kaguya: It’s my fault everyone’s miserable.
Okina: It’s not your fault! It’s not!
Kaguya: It is my fault. Because I’m a fake!
Okina: Princess!
Kaguya: I never dreamed things would turn out like this.
Okina: Of course not. But it’s not your fault.

Taglines

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  • A princesses crime and punishment
  • [From an interview with Toshio Suzuki after the death of Isao Takahata, and other marketing] The sins and punishments committed by the princess

Cast

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Category:2013 films Category:Isao Takahata films Category:Japanese films Category: Animated films

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