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Cinemalaya Film Festival Screens Takahata's The Tale of the Princess Kaguya on Saturday
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The Cinemalaya Philippine film festival will screen Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata's The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari) anime film in the Cultural Center of the Philippines' (CCP) Main Theatre (Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo) in Pasay, Metro Manila on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. The festival previously screened the film last Sunday.
The film will screen with Japanese audio with subtitles.
Takahta's (Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday) film is based on the famous Japanese folktale Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter), which centers on a princess named Kaguya who was discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant. In the film, her adoptive father uses his money to buy a land, title, and tutors for the girl to teach her to be a refined woman. She quickly earns many suitors due to her beauty, but she pines after her old life, and her sweetheart, Sutemaru.
The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film in the 87th Annual Academy Awards this year, but did not win. The film won the Animation Film Award at the 68th Mainichi Film Awards, Best Animation from the L.A. Film Critics Awards, and Best Animated Film from the Bostom Film Critics Society. It won Best Animated Feature Film at the eighth Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), and it is nominated for three Annie Awards. The film was screened at Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight but did not receive any awards there.
The film premiered in Japan in November 2013.
