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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (movie)

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Alternative title:
Die Legende der Prinzessin Kaguya (German)
El cuento de la princesa Kaguya (Spanish)
Kaguya-hime no Monogatari (Japanese)
Księżniczka Kaguya (Polish)
La Leyenda de la Princesa Kaguya (Spanish)
La Princesa Kaguya (Spanish)
La storia della principessa splendente (Italian)
Le Conte de la Princesse Kaguya (French)
O Conto da Princesa Kaguya (Portuguese)
かぐや姫の物語 (Japanese)
輝耀姬物語 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: drama, supernatural
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: In an idyllic rural setting an old bamboo cutter and his wife raise a tiny girl found nestled within a glowing bamboo stalk along with a fortune in gold. As she approaches adulthood the bamboo cutter uses the fortune to purchase a villa in the capital, buy himself a title and employ tutors to transform the country girl—now given the name Kaguya—into a refined woman. News of her beauty brings powerful and wealthy suitors who compete for her hand in marriage, culminating in a proposal from the emperor. All the while Kaguya wishes that she and her family could return to their former life and to be reunited with her sweetheart, Sutemaru. Sooner or later, though, her true origins will make their own claim upon her.
User Ratings: 364 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 95 votes (sub:67, dub:15, raw:4, others:9
6 Spanish subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Finnish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Excellent: 108 votes (sub:75, dub:27, others:6
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Spanish edited dub
1 Italian subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 68 votes (sub:46, dub:16, ?:1, raw:1, others:4
2 German dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Good: 53 votes (sub:29, dub:17, raw:2, others:5
1 German dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian edited dub
1 Russian subtitled
1 French dubbed
)
 Decent: 22 votes (sub:16, dub:6)
 So-so: 11 votes (sub:9, ?:1, dub:1)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
 Weak: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 492 users, rank: #2147 (of 9535)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.360 (Very good+), std. dev.: 1.5618, rank: #261 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 8.357 (Very good+), rank: #225 (of 9642) (seen all: 8.36)
Bayesian estimate: 8.324 (Very good+), rank: #139 (of 7243)
Running time: 137 minutes
Production cost: ¥5,000,000,000
Vintage:
2013-11-23
2017-05-19 (Señal Colombia - Colombia)
Premiere date:
2013-11-23 (Japan)
2014-06-13 (Taiwan)
2014-06-14 (Australia, Sydney Film Festival)
2015-04-23 (Brazil)
2018-08-13 (Peru)
2018-09-03 (Argentina)
Ending Theme:
"Inochi no Kioku" (いのちの記憶) by Kazumi Nikaido
Trivia: We have 3
Comment:
As of August 2018, Princess Kaguya remains the most expensive Japanese movie (not just anime) of all time.
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Isao Takahata
Music: Joe Hisaishi
Original Concept: Isao Takahata
Character Design: Kenichi Konishi
Art Director: Kazuo Oga
Animation Director: Kenichi Konishi
Sound Director: Naoko Asari
Director of Photography: Keisuke Nakamura
Executive producer: Seiichiro Ujiie
Producer: Yoshiaki Nishimura

Administrative Planning Room: Kazumi Inashiro
Animation Design: Osamu Tanabe
Animation Painting: Masaya Saitō
Art Photography:
Miho Kawanishi
Takeshi Ogawa
Assistant Director:
Akiko Matsuo
Yuichiro Kido
Auditing: Hirotaka Nakao
Character Merchandise Development:
Koichi Asano
Mika Yasuda
Naomi Atsuta
Tomomi Imai
Character Modeling: Osamu Tanabe
Co-executive producer: Yoshio Ohkubo
Color Management:
Toshiki Yura
Wataru Matsumoto
Color setting: Yukiko Kakita
Data Conform: Naoto Hosonuma
Digital Cinema Mastering:
Miho Sugiyama
Mizue Yamada
Editing: Toshihiko Kojima
Financial Manager: Noriyoshi Tamagawa
Foley Editor: Natsuko Inoue
Guzheng Performance: Xiao Qing Jiang
Insert Song Composition: Isao Takahata
Insert Song Lyrics:
Isao Takahata
Riko Sakaguchi
Lab Coordinator: Yuriko Satō
Lab Manager: Kazunori Nagasawa
Model Animation: Masaya Saitō
Orchestra Conductor: Joe Hisaishi
Overseas Promotion Manager:
Jeffrey Wexler
Mikiko Takeda
Photography Assistant:
Atsuko Okui (Assez Finaud Fabric)
Atsuko Shibata (Assez Finaud Fabric)
Kanae Ouchi (Assez Finaud Fabric)
Kaneko Fujimaki (Assez Finaud Fabric)
Megumi Tanaka (Assez Finaud Fabric)
Rieko Koike (Assez Finaud Fabric)
Ryō Itō (Assez Finaud Fabric)
Tsubasa Takagi (Assez Finaud Fabric)
Yasunao Kondo (Assez Finaud Fabric)
Yoshiaki Kayaba (Assez Finaud Fabric)
Piano Performance: Joe Hisaishi
Planning: Toshio Suzuki
Producer's Apprentice: Nobuo Kawakami
Production: Koji Hoshino (Studio Ghibli)
Production Administration Manager: Shinsuke Nonaka
Production Affairs:
Kanako Aoki
Mine Shibuya
Production Committee:
Akio Kobayashi (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Asako Hio (d-rights)
Ayako Dan (Walt Disney Japan)
Daisuke Kadoya (NTV)
Daizou Suzuki (d-rights)
Hidetaka Kokubun (Walt Disney Japan)
Hikaru Onoda (TOHO)
Jun Okabe (KDDI)
Keiko Miyazaki (NTV)
Kimio Maruyama (NTV)
Kino Arai (d-rights)
Kinuko Yano (KDDI)
Koichi Kawakami (KDDI)
Kouji Kishimoto (Walt Disney Japan)
Kouta Sugiyama (d-rights)
Madoka Hosoya (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Makoto Takahashi (KDDI)
Masami Takahashi (Walt Disney Japan)
Masato Tachibana (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Mayumi Hirakata (NTV)
Meiju Maeda (Dentsu)
Michio Yamamoto (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Minami Ichikawa (TOHO)
Misato Kamei (Dentsu)
Miyuki Takai (TOHO)
Nao Ishii (Dentsu)
Naohiro Kishi (KDDI)
Naoki Iwasa (NTV)
Naoto Hatakeyama (NTV)
Paul Candland (Walt Disney Japan)
Ryuichi Ikeda (Dentsu)
San Kim (KDDI)
Satoshi Chida (TOHO)
Satoshi Suzuki (Dentsu)
Shingo Arai (KDDI)
Shinpei Ise (TOHO)
Shuichi Machida (Dentsu)
Taichi Ueda (TOHO)
Takahiro Hirato (KDDI)
Takashi Suga (KDDI)
Takayuki Tsukagoshi (Walt Disney Japan)
Tomoko Jō (NTV)
Tooru Itabashi (d-rights)
Toshihiro Komatsu (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Toshihiro Yamamoto (Dentsu)
Toshinori Mori (NTV)
Toshio Oomori (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Toshitake Amemiya (KDDI)
Toshiya Takasaki (d-rights)
Yoshikuni Murata (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Yoshio Takada (Dentsu)
Yoshishige Shimatani (TOHO)
Yukio Yamashita (Walt Disney Japan)
Yutaka Ishikawa (Dentsu)
Yuuko Muranaka (Walt Disney Japan)
Production Cooperation: Kentarō Takahashi
Production Desk: Toshio Yoshikawa
Publicity Producer:
Akito Takahashi
Tomoko Hosokawa
Publishing Manager: Chinami Tai
Recording: Eihiko Ohno
Recording Adjustment: Koji Kasamatsu
Recording engineer: Suminobu Hamada
Sound Production Desk: Tamaki Furushiro
Specially Appointed Scene Design: Yoshiyuki Momose
Studio Engineer: Naoto Takeshima
Supervising Manager: Yuichiro Mochizuki
Technical Support:
Shinichiro Koshi
Shuho Kikuchi
Theme Song Composition: Kazumi Nikaidō
Theme Song Lyrics: Kazumi Nikaidō
Theme Song Performance: Kazumi Nikaidō
Trailer Production: Keiichi Itagaki
Aki Asakura as Kaguya

Kengo Kōra as Sutemaru
Nobuko Miyamoto as Ouna
Takeo Chii as Okina

Atsuko Takahata as Sagami
Hikaru Ijūin as Abe no Udaijin
Isao Hashizume as Kuramochi no Miko
Mirai Uchida as Kaguya (child)
Ryūdō Uzaki as Ootomo no Dainagon
Shinosuke Tatekawa as Inbe no Akita
Takaya Kamikawa as Ishitsukuri no Miko
Tamaki Kojo as Isonokami no Chuunagon
Tatsuya Nakadai as Sumiyaki no Roujin
Tomoko Tabata as Menowarawa
Yukiji Asaoka as Kitanokata

Japanese companies
Animation Production: Studio Ghibli
BG Scan: T2 Studio
Color Specification: T2 Studio
Digital Lab: Imagica
Distributor: TOHO
Music Performance: Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Music Production: Wonder City
Photography: T2 Studio
Photography Assistance: Assez Finaud Fabric.
Production Cooperation: T2 Studio
Special Thanks:
LAWSON
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Sponsoring:
Eyeful Home
KDDI
Titles: Malin Post
English cast
English staff
Translation: Ian MacDougall (Theatrical release)
Executive producer: Frank Marshall
Producer: Geoffrey Wexler

Assistant To Mr. Marshall: Mary Radford
Choir Director: Luana Jackman
Dialogue Editing: Suzanne Goldish
Post-Production Supervision: James Lafferty
Production manager: Laura Lopez
Re-Recording Mixing: Mark Ettel
Recording engineer:
David Walsh
David W. Barr
Eric Lewis 
Script Adaptation: Mike Jones
Studio Teacher: Chavonne Long
Sync Writer: Steve Kramer
Talent Coordination: Sierra Leoni
Voice Casting: Holly Dorff Long
Voice Direction: Jamie Simone

Darren Criss as Sutemaru
James Caan as The Bamboo Cutter
Mary Steenburgen as The Bamboo Cutter's Wife

Beau Bridges as Prince Kuramochi
Brian Leone as Villager
Caitlyn Leone as Kaguya (young)
Daniel Dae Kim as Great Counselor Otomo
Dean Cain as The Mikado
Emily Bridges as Kitanokata
George Segal as Inbe no Akita
Hynden Walch as Menowarawa
James Marsden as Prince Ishitsukuri
John Cho as Middle Counselor Isonokami
Liam O'Brien as Ayabe no Uchimaro
Lucy Liu as Sagami
Michael Leone as Villager
Oliver Platt as Lord Minster of Right Abe

English companies
Distributor:
GKIDS
Madman Entertainment (Australia and New Zealand)
Shout! Factory (2022; North America)
Universal Studios (USA)
Internet Streaming:
HBO Max (USA)
Netflix (Worldwide, excl. USA and Japan)
Licensed by: GKIDS
Payroll Services: Media Services
Production Subsidy: J-LOP
Recording Studio: STUDIOPOLIS, Inc.
French staff
French cast
ADR Director: Jean-Marc Pannetier

Adaptation: Jean-Marc Pannetier
Claire Baradat as Princesse Kaguya

Achille Orsoni as Coupeur de Bambou
Adeline Chetail as Servante
Benjamin Bollen as Mikado
Catherine Artigala as Vieille femme
Coralie Thuilier as Kaguya enfant
Donald Reignoux as Sutermaru
Hélène Otternaud as
Femme du Coupeur de Bambou
Narratrice
Jérôme Cachon as Ishitsukuri
Monique Nevers as Dame Sagami
Patrice Dozier as Prince Kuramochi
Patrice Melennec as Forgeron
Patrick Bethune as Otomo
Pauline Brunner as Otsu
Pierre Baton as Messire Akita
Xavier Beja as Ministre Abe
Yoann Sover as Isonokami

French companies
Broadcaster:
Canal + (from 29 July 2015)
Canal + Family (from 20 June 2015)
Dubbing: Dubbing Brothers
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director: Eduardo Gutierrez (Spain dub)
Dubbing Director: Fabián Mejía
Translation: Ayako Kishi (Spain dub)
ADR Script: Eduardo Gutierrez (Spain dub)

ADR Engineer: Jesús Javier Sáiz Salso (Spain dub)
Mix Engineer: Jesús Javier Sáiz Salso (Spain dub)
Analiz Sánchez as Princesa Kaguya
Cristina Yuste as Kaguya (Spain dub)
Patricia Bolaños as Lady Sagami
Ricardo Bautista as Sutemaru
Salvador Najar as Leñador de bambú

Luis Mas as The Bamboo Cutter (Spain dub)
Pilar Gentil as The Bamboo Cutter's Wife (Spain dub)
Raúl Lara as Sutemaru (Spain dub)

Alejandro Licera as Servant (Spain dub)
Ángel Colomé as Craftsman (Spain dub)
Darío López-Yarto as Child B (Spain dub)
David Beteta as Musician (Spain dub)
Eduardo Gutierrez as Prince Ishitsukuri (Spain dub)
Enrique Cazorla as Akita (Spain dub)
Enrique Jordá as Uchimaro (Spain dub)
Eva Lorenzo as First Wife (Spain dub)
Fran Jimenez as Counselor Isonokami (Spain dub)
Gerardo del Valle as Isonokami
Isabel Donate as Sagami (Spain dub)
Isacha Mengíbar as Companion (Spain dub)
Jos Gómez as Emperor (Spain dub)
Juan Perucho as Minister Abe (Spain dub)
María Julia Díaz as Narrator (Spain dub)
Marta Marín as Child C (Spain dub)
Mateo López-Yarto as Child A (Spain dub)
Miguel Zúñiga as Prince Kuramochi (Spain dub)
Nagore Germes as Moon Mandatary (Spain dub)
Salvador Campoy as Counselor Ootomo (Spain dub)
Vicente Gil as Charcoal Elder (Spain dub)

Spanish companies
Broadcaster:
Canal MAX (Latin America)
Canal UCR (subtitled)
Cinemax Latin America
HBO (Latin America)
HBO Latin America
I-Sat (Latin America)
Movistar Drama (Spain)
Movistar+ Xtra (Spain)
Señal Colombia (Colombia)
Distributor:
Babilla Ciné (Colombia | Theatrical; DVD and Blu-ray)
Cinemark (Argentina; subtitled)
Madness Entertainment (AniFest 2015)
Zima Entertainment
Dubbing Studio:
Perfect Sound (Spain dub)
WG
DVD Distribution: Babilla Ciné (Colombia)
Internet Streaming:
Movistar+ (Spain)
Netflix
Señal Colombia (Colombia)
Licensed by:
Cinetopia (Chile, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay)
Vértigo Films (Spain)
Zima Entertainment (Mexico)
Theatrical Releaser: Babilla Ciné (Colombia)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Gualtiero Cannarsi
Translation: Elisa Nardoni Sato
Executive producer: Romina Franzini

Dialogues: Gualtiero Cannarsi
Dubbing Assistant: Sabina Razzi
Mixing: Andrea Pochini
Chiara Fabiano as Principessa Kaguya (bambina)
Lucrezia Marricchi as Principessa Kaguya

Ambrogio Colombo as Principe Kuramochi
Carlo Valli as Okina
Chiara Salerno as Moglie di Okina
Flavio Aquilone as Sutemaru
Giorgio Borghetti as Principe Ishitsukuri
Rita Savagnone as Lady Sagami

Anna Teresa Eugeni as Moglie del carbonaio
Daniele De Lisi as Artigiano
David Chevalier as Medio Consigliere Isonokami
Dimitri Winter as Vetturino
Domitilla D'Amico as Ancella
Emidio La Vella as Takemiya
Francesco Bulckaen as Mikado
Gerolamo Alchieri as Inbe no Akita
Gianluca Musiu as Viandante
Gianluca Solombrino as Ayabe no Uchimaro
Luca Tesei as Otsu
Ludovico Versino as Musicante
Marco Guadagno as Ministro di Destra Abe
Mirko Mazzanti as Capitano
Pietro Biondi as Carbonaio
Roberto Draghetti as Gran Consigliere Ootomo
Italian companies
Distributor: Lucky Red
Dubbing: SEFIT-CDC
Internet Streaming: Mediaset Infinity
Sound: SEFIT-CDC
German staff
German cast
ADR Director: Erik Paulsen
Script: Erik Paulsen
Translation: Thilo Mardaus
Sarah Alles as Princess Kaguya

André Hennicke as Prince Kuramochi
Denise Gorzelanny as Narrator
Dirk Bublies as Prince Ishitsukuri
Kornelia Boje as Bamboo Cutter's Wife
Nico Sablik as Sutemaru
Sabine Falkenberg as Lady Sagami
Uli Krohm as Bamboo Cutter

Erich Räuker as Dainagon Otomo
Hans Hohlbein as Udaijin Abe
Peter Groeger as Inbe no Akita
Rainer Fritzsche as Chuunagon Isonokami
Reinhard Scheunemann as Old Charburner
Uwe Jellinek as Uchimaro
German companies
Russian staff
Russian companies
(none)
Dubbing: Reanimedia (2020)
Internet Streaming: Kinopoisk.ru (2020)
Russian cast
(none)
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Netflix
Polish cast
(none)
Portuguese cast
Portuguese staff
Dubbing Director: Luciene Andreotti
Flora Paulita as Kaguya

Caio Guarnieri as Sutemaru
Cecília Lemes as Ouna (Bamboo Cutter's Wife)
José Carlos Guerra as Okina (Bamboo Cutter)

Affonso Amajones as Ishitsukuri no Miko
Carlos Silveira as Lorde Akita
Cassiano Ávila as Mikado
César Emílio as Abe no Udaijin
Lucas Gama as Isonokami no Chuunagon
Nair Silva as Narrator
Rosângela Mello as Me no Warawa
Tatá Guarnieri as Kuramochi no Miko
Walter Cruz as Ootomo no Dainagon

Portuguese companies
Broadcaster: I.Sat
Distributor:
California Filmes (Brazil)
Outsider Films (Portugal)
Dubbing Studio: Woodvídeo (Brazil)
Internet Streaming:
Looke
Vivo Play
Production: ETC Filmes

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