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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 |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| Tomoyuki Tanaka | Executive Producer |
| Hiroaki Fujii | Producer |
| Masaru Kakutani | Producer |
| Junichi Shinsaka | Producer |
