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Princess from the Moon 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.
Original Release
09/14/1987
US Release
09/14/1987
Cast
Name | Character |
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Toshirô Mifune | Taketori-no-Miyatsuko |
Ayako Wakao | Tayoshime |
Yasuko Sawaguchi | Kaya, the Princess Kaguya |
Kôji Ishizaka | Mikado |
Kiichi Nakai | Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military |
Koasa Shunpûtei | Kuramochi-no-Miko or Minister of Culture |
Takatoshi Takeda | Abe-no-Udaijin or Minister of Finance |
Megumi Odaka | Akeno |
Katsuo Nakamura | Lise |
Shirô Itô | Sojo-no-Doson |
Directors
Writers
Kon Ichikawa, Mitsutoshi Ishigami, Ryûzô Kikushima, Shikibu Murasaki
Cast
Name | Character |
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Toshirô Mifune | Taketori-no-Miyatsuko |
Ayako Wakao | Tayoshime |
Yasuko Sawaguchi | Kaya, the Princess Kaguya |
Kôji Ishizaka | Mikado |
Kiichi Nakai | Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military |
Koasa Shunpûtei | Kuramochi-no-Miko or Minister of Culture |
Takatoshi Takeda | Abe-no-Udaijin or Minister of Finance |
Megumi Odaka | Akeno |
Katsuo Nakamura | Lise |
Shirô Itô | Sojo-no-Doson |
Fujio Tokita | Shonin-no-Uda |
Takeshi Katô | Fujiwara-no-Okuni |
Kyoko Kishida | Kougo |
Hirokazu Yamaguchi | Metal Carver |
Jun Hamamura | Sakanoue-no-Dajo-Daijin |
Gen Idemitsu | Mura-no-Choja |
Michino Yokoyama | Lise's Wife |
Hirokazu Inoue | Ono-no-Fusamori |
Miho Nakano | Kaya |
Shigeo Katô | Villager |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tomoyuki Tanaka | Executive Producer |
Hiroaki Fujii | Producer |
Masaru Kakutani | Producer |
Junichi Shinsaka | Producer |