Okina is a bamboo cutter in ancient rural Japan. One day in the forest, he finds a tiny baby in the folds of a bamboo shoot. He brings the creature home to his wife Ounaa and they decide to keep her and raise her as a princess. She is clearly not of this world. Kaguya grows at an unnatural rate, soon maturing into an uncommonly beautiful young woman. Since Okina has now also found a cache of gold and treasure in the forest, every suitor wants Kaguya. But this is not a fairy tale of courtship and marriage. (Source: Toronto International Film Festival)

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Cast

Kaguya-hime

Aki Asakura

Sutemaru

Kengo Koura

Okina

Takeo Chii

Inbe no Akita

Shinosuke Tatekawa

Sagami

Atsuko Takahata

Menowarawa

Tomoko Tabata

Ouna

Nobuko Miyamoto

Mikado

Nakamura Shichinosuke II