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

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)

1. Kaguya-hime 
2. Hachikazuki 
3. Nezumi no Yomeiri 
4. Kashikoi Inakamusume 
5. Tenashi Musume 
6. Roku-wa no Hakuchou 
7. Bijo to Yajuu

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