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{{short description|1987 film by Kon Ichikawa}}
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{{Infobox film
{{Infobox film
|name = Princess from the Moon
| name = Princess from the Moon
|image = Princess_from_the_Moon_Poster.jpg
| image = Princess_from_the_Moon_Poster.jpg
|caption =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| native_name = {{Infobox Japanese| kanji=竹取物語 | revhep=Taketori Monogatari}}
|director = [[Kon Ichikawa]]
|producer = [[Masaichi Nagata]]
| director = [[Kon Ichikawa]]
|writer = [[Kon Ichikawa]]<br>Shinya Hidaka<br>Mitsutoshi Ishigami<br>Ryûzô Kikushima
| producer = [[Tomoyuki Tanaka]]
| writer = [[Kon Ichikawa]]<br>Shinya Hidaka<br>Mitsutoshi Ishigami<br>Ryûzô Kikushima
|based on = ''[[The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter]]''
| based_on = ''[[The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter]]''
|starring = [[Toshiro Mifune]]<br>[[Ayako Wakao]]<br>[[Kyōko Kishida]]<br>[[Kiichi Nakai]]
| starring = [[Toshiro Mifune]]<br>[[Kyōko Kishida]]<br>[[Ayako Wakao]]<br>[[Kiichi Nakai]]
|music = Kensaku Tanikawa
| music = Kensaku Tanikawa
|cinematography = Setsuo Kobayashi
| cinematography = Setsuo Kobayashi
|editing = Chizuko Osada
| editing = Chizuko Osada
|studio = [[Toho]]<br>[[Fuji Television]]
| studio = [[Toho]]<br>[[Fuji Television]]
|distributor = [[Toho]]
| distributor = [[Toho]]
|released = September 14, 1987 (US)<br/>September 26, 1987 (Japan)
| released = {{Film date|1987|09|14|US|1987|09|26|Japan}}
|runtime = 121 minutes
| runtime = 121 minutes
|country = Japan
| country = Japan
|awards =
| language = Japanese
| budget = {{JPY|2 billion}}<ref name="Japan Academy Prize"/>
|language = Japanese
| gross = {{JPY|2.47 billion}}<ref name="databank">{{cite web |title=邦画興行収入ランキング |url=http://www.generalworks.com/databank/movie/rank04.html |website=SF MOVIE DataBank |publisher=General Works |year=2008 |language=ja |access-date=19 February 2019}}</ref>
|budget =
}}
}}
{{nihongo|'''''Princess 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.
{{nihongo|'''''Princess from the Moon'''''|竹取物語|Taketori Monogatari|{{lit}} ''The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter''}} is a 1987 [[Japanese film]] directed by [[Kon Ichikawa]]. It is based on ''[[The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter]]'', a 10th-century Japanese fairy tale about a girl from the Moon who is discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing [[bamboo]] plant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sp.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=17867&key_search=%E7%AB%B9%E5%8F%96%E7%89%A9%E8%AA%9E|title=竹取物語|publisher=[[Kinema Junpo]]|access-date=27 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=14674|title=竹取物語|publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]]|access-date=27 December 2020}}</ref>

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==Background==
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The film was released as [[Toho]]'s "55th Anniversary Film" in 1987. Ichikawa noted that he had wanted to make this film for many years, and said his intention was to make it a "film of pure diversion".<ref name="Quandt">James Quandt, ed., ''Kon Ichikawa'' ([[Indiana University Press]], 2001), {{ISBN|978-0968296936}}, pp. 91-92, 388-393. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3vkVuSGQe-EC&lpg=PA436&dq=%22Taketori%20Monogatari%22%20ichikawa&pg=PA91#v=snippet&q=Princess%20from%20the%20Moon&f=false Excerpts available] at [[Google Books]].</ref> The film was selected as the opening film of the [[Tokyo International Film Festival]], where it was not well received by critics.<ref>Kazuhiro Tateishi, "''The Tale of Genji'' in Postwar Film: Emperor, Aestheticism, and the Erotic", in Haruo Shirane, ed., ''Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production'' ([[Columbia University Press]], 2013), {{ISBN|978-0231513463}}, p. 326. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ITRIvGT0SGsC&lpg=PA326&dq=%22Taketori%20Monogatari%22%20ichikawa&pg=PA326#v=onepage&q=%22Taketori%20Monogatari%22%20ichikawa&f=false Excerpts available] at [[Google Books]].</ref> Toho promoted the film heavily, and it had the second highest theatrical returns of any film that year, but its financial performance did not equal that of Ichikawa's 1985 release, ''[[The Burmese Harp (1985 film)|Harp of Burma]]''.<ref name="Quandt"/>

The Dragon prop used in this film was originally going to play the role of the [[Loch Ness Monster]] in a collaborative project between Toho and [[Hammer Film Productions]], famous for their Gothic horror films, but that project was shelved.


==Plot==
==Plot==
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]].
One day bamboo cutter Taketori-no-Miyatsuko ([[Toshiro Mifune]]) discovers a baby girl while he is 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 [[Spacecraft|space ship]].


==Cast==
==Cast==
* [[Toshiro Mifune]] as Taketori-no-Miyatsuko
* [[Toshiro Mifune]] as Taketori-no-Miyatsuko
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* [[Ayako Wakao]] as Tayoshime
* [[Yasuko Sawaguchi]] as Kaya, the Princess Kaguya
* [[Yasuko Sawaguchi]] as Kaya, the Princess Kaguya
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* [[Ayako Wakao]] as Tayoshime
* [[Koji Ishizaka]] as Mikado
* [[Koji Ishizaka]] as Mikado
* [[Kiichi Nakai]] as Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military
* [[Kiichi Nakai]] as Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military
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* [[Kyōko Kishida]] as Kougo
* [[Kyōko Kishida]] as Kougo
* [[Jun Hamamura]] as Sakanoue-no-Dajo-Daijin
* [[Jun Hamamura]] as Sakanoue-no-Dajo-Daijin
* [[Koasa Shunpitei]] as Kuramochi-no-Miko or Minister of Culture
* Koasa Shunpitei as Kuramochi-no-Miko or Minister of Culture
* [[Takatoshi Takeda]] as Abe-no-Udaijin or Minister of Finance
* Takatoshi Takeda as Abe-no-Udaijin or Minister of Finance
* [[Shiro Ito]] as Sojo-no-Doson
* [[Shirō Itō]] as Sojo-no-Doson
* [[Fujio Tokita]] as Shonin-no-Uda
* Fujio Tokita as Shonin-no-Uda
* [[Hirokazu Yamaguchi]] as Metal Carver
* Hirokazu Yamaguchi as Metal Carver
* [[Gen Idemitsu]] as Mura-no-Choja
* Gen Idemitsu as Mura-no-Choja
* [[Michiyo Yokoyama]] as Lise's Wife
* Michiyo Yokoyama as Lise's Wife
* [[Hirokazu Inoue]] as Ono-no-Fusamori
* Hirokazu Inoue as Ono-no-Fusamori
* [[Miho Nakano]] as Kaya
* Miho Nakano as Kaya

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==Background==
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The film was released as [[Toho]]'s 55th Anniversary Film in 1987. Ichikawa noted that he had wanted to make this film for many years, and said his intention was to make it a "film of pure diversion".<ref name="Quandt">[[James Quandt]], ed., ''Kon Ichikawa'' ([[Indiana University Press]], 2001), {{ISBN|978-0968296936}}, pp. 91–92, 388–393. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3vkVuSGQe-EC&q=Princess+from+the+Moon&pg=PA91 Excerpts available] at [[Google Books]].</ref> The film was selected as the opening film of the [[Tokyo International Film Festival]], where it was not well received by critics.<ref>Kazuhiro Tateishi, "''The Tale of Genji'' in Postwar Film: Emperor, Aestheticism, and the Erotic", in Haruo Shirane, ed., ''Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production'' ([[Columbia University Press]], 2013), {{ISBN|978-0231513463}}, p. 326. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ITRIvGT0SGsC&dq=%22Taketori+Monogatari%22+ichikawa&pg=PA326 Excerpts available] at [[Google Books]].</ref> Toho promoted the film heavily, and it had the second highest theatrical returns of any film that year, but its financial performance did not equal that of Ichikawa's 1985 release ''[[The Burmese Harp (1985 film)|Harp of Burma]]''.<ref name="Quandt"/>


==Reception==
==Reception==
A review in the ''Los Angeles Times'' stated: "You wonder awhile whether the moon girl is some wish-fulfillment dream of the subservient, unassertive Japanese women--here made into a god. Yet, like all legends, this one is capable of different inflections. Part of the film is a corrosive assault on brutal ruling classes and wily, opportunistic aristocrats, and it’s infused with the same qualities--idealism, social iconoclasm, artistry and almost unobtrusive visual beauty--that mark most of Ichikawa’s movies. And, if “Princess of the Moon” (Times-rated: Family) pales beside its American equivalents as a piece of special-effects pyrotechnics, it rises above most of them as a celebration of the power of love, the pull of fantasy and the beauty of innocence and moonlight."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilmington |first=Michael |date=1988-05-20 |title=Movie Reviews : Japanese Tale Shines in 'Princess of the Moon' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-20-ca-3916-story.html |access-date=2023-08-02 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
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===Awards and nominations===
===Awards and nominations===
* 1988, won [[Japanese Academy Awards]] 'Newcomer of the Year' for [[Megumi Odaka]]<ref name="Japan Academy Prize">[http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=11 Japan Academy Prize Association website]</ref>
* 1988, won [[Japanese Academy Awards]] Newcomer of the Year for [[Megumi Odaka]]<ref name="Japan Academy Prize">[http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=11 Japan Academy Prize Association website]</ref>
* 1988, won Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Art Direction' for [[Shinobu Muraki]]<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, won Japanese Academy Awards Best Art Direction for [[Shinobu Muraki]]<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, won Japanese Academy Awards 'Special Award' for [[Teruyoshi Nakano]], Kenichi Eguchi, Yasuyuki Inoue, Takeshi Miyanishi, Kazunobu Sanpei, Eiichi Asada, Kohei Mikami, and Hiroshi Shirakawa<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, won Japanese Academy Awards Special Award for [[Teruyoshi Nakano]], Kenichi Eguchi, Yasuyuki Inoue, Takeshi Miyanishi, Kazunobu Sanpei, Eiichi Asada, Kohei Mikami, and Hiroshi Shirakawa<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Film'<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Film<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Director' for [[Kon Ichikawa]]<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Director for [[Kon Ichikawa]]<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Cinematography' for Setsuo Kobayashi<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Cinematography for Setsuo Kobayashi<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Editing' for Chizuko Osada<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Editing for Chizuko Osada<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Lighting' for Kazuo Shimomura<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Lighting for Kazuo Shimomura<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Music Score' for Kensaku Tanikawa<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Music Score for Kensaku Tanikawa<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Sound' for Teiichi Saito and Tetsuya Ohashi<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Sound for Teiichi Saito and Tetsuya Ohashi<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards 'Best Supporting Actor' for [[Toshiro Mifune]]<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />
* 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor for [[Toshiro Mifune]]<ref name="Japan Academy Prize" />

==Soundtrack ==
"Stay with Me" - [[Peter Cetera]]


== See also ==
== See also ==
* ''[[From the Towers of the Moon]]'', an opera inspired by the film
* ''[[From the Towers of the Moon]]'', an opera inspired by the film
* ''[[The Tale of the Princess Kaguya]]'', a 2013 [[anime]] film by [[Studio Ghibli]] also directly retelling the folk tale
* ''[[The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (film)|The Tale of the Princess Kaguya]]'', a 2013 [[anime]] film by [[Studio Ghibli]] also directly retelling the folk tale


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0094100}}
* {{IMDb title|0094100}}
* {{allrovi movie|128300}}
* {{TCMDb title|id=502779}}
* {{tcmdb title|id=502779}}


{{Kon Ichikawa}}
{{Kon Ichikawa}}


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Latest revision as of 04:21, 22 December 2024

Princess from the Moon
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji竹取物語
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnTaketori Monogatari
Directed byKon Ichikawa
Written byKon Ichikawa
Shinya Hidaka
Mitsutoshi Ishigami
Ryûzô Kikushima
Based onThe Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Produced byTomoyuki Tanaka
StarringToshiro Mifune
Kyōko Kishida
Ayako Wakao
Kiichi Nakai
CinematographySetsuo Kobayashi
Edited byChizuko Osada
Music byKensaku Tanikawa
Production
companies
Distributed byToho
Release dates
  • September 14, 1987 (1987-09-14) (US)
  • September 26, 1987 (1987-09-26) (Japan)
Running time
121 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget¥2 billion[1]
Box office¥2.47 billion[2]

Princess from the Moon (竹取物語, Taketori Monogatari, lit. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) is a 1987 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is based on The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a 10th-century Japanese fairy tale about a girl from the Moon who is discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.[3][4]

Plot

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One day bamboo cutter Taketori-no-Miyatsuko (Toshiro Mifune) discovers a baby girl while he is 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.

Cast

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Background

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The film was released as Toho's 55th Anniversary Film in 1987. Ichikawa noted that he had wanted to make this film for many years, and said his intention was to make it a "film of pure diversion".[5] The film was selected as the opening film of the Tokyo International Film Festival, where it was not well received by critics.[6] Toho promoted the film heavily, and it had the second highest theatrical returns of any film that year, but its financial performance did not equal that of Ichikawa's 1985 release Harp of Burma.[5]

Reception

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A review in the Los Angeles Times stated: "You wonder awhile whether the moon girl is some wish-fulfillment dream of the subservient, unassertive Japanese women--here made into a god. Yet, like all legends, this one is capable of different inflections. Part of the film is a corrosive assault on brutal ruling classes and wily, opportunistic aristocrats, and it’s infused with the same qualities--idealism, social iconoclasm, artistry and almost unobtrusive visual beauty--that mark most of Ichikawa’s movies. And, if “Princess of the Moon” (Times-rated: Family) pales beside its American equivalents as a piece of special-effects pyrotechnics, it rises above most of them as a celebration of the power of love, the pull of fantasy and the beauty of innocence and moonlight."[7]

Awards and nominations

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  • 1988, won Japanese Academy Awards Newcomer of the Year for Megumi Odaka[1]
  • 1988, won Japanese Academy Awards Best Art Direction for Shinobu Muraki[1]
  • 1988, won Japanese Academy Awards Special Award for Teruyoshi Nakano, Kenichi Eguchi, Yasuyuki Inoue, Takeshi Miyanishi, Kazunobu Sanpei, Eiichi Asada, Kohei Mikami, and Hiroshi Shirakawa[1]
  • 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Film[1]
  • 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Director for Kon Ichikawa[1]
  • 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Cinematography for Setsuo Kobayashi[1]
  • 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Editing for Chizuko Osada[1]
  • 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Lighting for Kazuo Shimomura[1]
  • 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Music Score for Kensaku Tanikawa[1]
  • 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Sound for Teiichi Saito and Tetsuya Ohashi[1]
  • 1988, nominated Japanese Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor for Toshiro Mifune[1]

Soundtrack

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"Stay with Me" - Peter Cetera

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Japan Academy Prize Association website
  2. ^ "邦画興行収入ランキング". SF MOVIE DataBank (in Japanese). General Works. 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  3. ^ "竹取物語". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  4. ^ "竹取物語". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  5. ^ a b James Quandt, ed., Kon Ichikawa (Indiana University Press, 2001), ISBN 978-0968296936, pp. 91–92, 388–393. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  6. ^ Kazuhiro Tateishi, "The Tale of Genji in Postwar Film: Emperor, Aestheticism, and the Erotic", in Haruo Shirane, ed., Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production (Columbia University Press, 2013), ISBN 978-0231513463, p. 326. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  7. ^ Wilmington, Michael (1988-05-20). "Movie Reviews : Japanese Tale Shines in 'Princess of the Moon'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-08-02.
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