For an adaptation of a legend dating back to the 10th century, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya's ability to evoke emotion from contemporary viewers is highly impressive.
For an adaptation of a legend dating back to the 10th century, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya's ability to evoke emotion from contemporary viewers is highly impressive. Somehow, it's simultaneously cute, wondrous, surreal, and brutally somber. While Takahata's wild tonal experiments didn't always work, all his gambles pay off in this stunning ode to the beauty and suffering of life on earth.