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.
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(Source: Toronto International Film Festival)

Stop-motion short-film narrating the fairytale of princess kaguya.

A short puppet animation version of Princess Kaguya, also known as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a 10th century folk tale.

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