{"id":3711,"date":"2014-11-03T20:11:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T02:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2019-03-10T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T19:31:03","slug":"tale-of-princess-kaguya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/tale-of-princess-kaguya\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Princess Kaguya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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\u304b\u3050\u3084\u59eb\u306e\u7269\u8a9e<\/strong> I was lucky to see this in the original Japanese-language version at the +Alamo Drafthouse<\/a>.  From the info I could glean on the Internet about the limited release in other American cities, I was afraid it was going to be the dubbed version. So a big thanks to the +Alamo Drafthouse<\/a> for showing it in the original language!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taken as a whole (story, visual, and graphics) I think Princess Kaguya is the most Japanese<\/em> Japanese movie I’ve ever seen. The closest Western-style experience I could imagine would be a movie based on Grimm Fairy Tales drawn in Arthur Rackham’s style. Disney felt it necessary to modernize and sanitize those stories for mid-twentieth century tastes and now, in the face of Pixar and Dreamworks, even the old Disney stuff seems quaint. But since childhood, I’ve alway preferred Arthur Rackham, John Tenniel, and Randolph Caldecott to Disney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it’s no surprise to me that I was completely charmed by Takahata’s Princess Kaguya<\/em>  He also directed one of my other favorite Studio Ghibli films, Only Yesterday<\/em> (\u304a\u3082\u3072\u3067\u307d\u308d\u307d\u308d), in which he switched between animation styles to great effect to show childhood memories flooding back during a young woman’s vacation in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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