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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: 372 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 98 votes (sub:70, dub:15, raw:4, others:9
6 Spanish subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Finnish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Excellent: 110 votes (sub:77, dub:27, others:6
2 Spanish subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Spanish edited dub
1 French subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Very good: 70 votes (sub:46, dub:16, ?:2, raw:1, others:5
2 German dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Good: 54 votes (sub:30, dub:17, raw:2, others:5
1 French dubbed
1 German dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian edited dub
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 22 votes (sub:16, dub:6)
 So-so: 11 votes (sub:9, dub:1, ?:1)
 Not really good: 2 votes (dub:1, sub: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 502 users, rank: #2143 (of 10059)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.371 (Very good+), std. dev.: 1.5544, rank: #264 (of 10234)
Weighted mean: 8.365 (Very good+), rank: #232 (of 10234) (seen all: 8.36)
Bayesian estimate: 8.335 (Very good+), rank: #136 (of 7688)
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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DVD (Region 1)
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DVD (Region 4)
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Graphic novel
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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 
Yūichirō 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 
Data Management:
Daijiro Adachi 
Masashi Okoshi 
Digital Cinema Mastering:
Miho Sugiyama 
Mizue Yamada 
Editing: Toshihiko Kojima 
Financial Manager: Noriyoshi Tamagawa 
Foley Artist:
Akihiko Okase 
Mizuki Itō 
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 
Paint Check:
Fumie Kawamata 
Kumi Nanjo 
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: Kōji Kasamatsu 
Recording engineer: Suminobu Hamada 
Sound Effects:
Kōji Kasamatsu 
Tomoko Ohtsuka 
Sound Production Desk: Tamaki Furushiro 
Specially Appointed Scene Design: Yoshiyuki Momose 
Storyboard Assistant:
Masako Sato 
Shinji Hashimoto 
Shinsaku Sasaki 
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) 
Nakamura Shichinosuke as Mikado 
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 

Michie 
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Studio Ghibli 
BG Scan: T2 Studio 
Casting: Queen’s Promotion 
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 
Legal Services:
Janina Sinclair 
Penelope Glass 
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 
Special Thanks To:
David Jesteadt 
Eric Beckman 
Robyn Klein 
Studio Teacher: Chavonne Long 
Sync Writer: Steve Kramer 
Talent Coordination: Sierra Leoni 
Voice Casting: Holly Dorff Long 
Voice Direction: Jamie Simone 
Chloë Grace Moretz as Kaguya 

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) 
Gerardo del Valle as Akita 
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 
Lorenzo D'Agata as Kou 
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 
Gerrit Schmidt-Foß as Mikado 
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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