The legend of Princess Kaguya

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Anime movie
title The legend of Princess Kaguya
Original title か ぐ や 姫 の 物語
transcription Kaguya-hime no Monogatari
Kaguya-hime no monogatari title.jpg
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2013
Studio Studio Ghibli
length 137 minutes
genre Fantasy , drama
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Isao Takahata
script Isao Takahata,
Riko Sakaguchi
production Toshio Suzuki ,
Yoshiaki Nishimura
music Joe Hisaishi
synchronization

The Legend of Princess Kaguya ( Japanese か ぐ や 姫 の 物語 , Kaguya-hime no Monogatari ) is a 2013 film by Studio Ghibli . It was directed by Isao Takahata and is based on the old Japanese tale Taketori Monogatari . The film was nominated for an Oscar 2015 in the category “ Best Animated Feature Film ”.

action

The poor bamboo collector Okina ("old man") finds a glowing bamboo one day. In it he finds a tiny woman who turns into a baby when he takes her home. Together with his wife Ōna ("old woman") he raises the rapidly growing child they call Takenoko ("bamboo sprout; bamboo child"). Takenoko enjoys her simple life and makes friends with the other children, especially with Sutemaru. But her foster father soon finds gold and valuables in other bamboo trees, and then moves with Takenoko and his wife to an estate in the city. Her daughter, who is now given the name Kaguya, is said to grow up like a noblewoman, and is brought up and dressed accordingly. After a while, she is also visited by young nobles who ask for her hand. Kaguya takes little pleasure in all of this and rejects all admirers. Eventually she becomes aware that she comes from the moon and with her all the wealth. Kaguya has to go back there, a train of moon beings, led by Buddha, picks them up from the earth and takes them with them.

Production and publication

In the production of Studio Ghibli led Isao Takahata directed. He also wrote the script together with Riko Sakaguchi . Toshio Suzuki and Yoshiaki Nishimura were responsible as producers . Kenichi Konishi created the character design and was an animation director. The music for the film is by Joe Hisaishi . The credits were accompanied by the song Inochi no Kioku ( い の ち の 記憶 ) by Kazumi Nikaido . According to producer Yoshiaki Nishimura, the film took eight years to make.

Originally the premiere was planned together with How the Wind Rises , another film from the studio in 2013. However, the release was postponed and the first screening took place on November 23, 2013 in Japan.

The German theatrical release was November 20, 2014.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Princess Kaguya Aki Asakura Sarah Everything
Bamboo collector Takeo Chii / Yūji Miyake 1) Uli Krohm
Wife of the bamboo collector Nobuko Miyamoto Kornelia buoy
Sutemaru Kengo Kora Nico Sablik
Lady Sagami Atsuko Takahata Sabine Falkenberg
Prince Ishitsukuri Takaya Kamikawa Dirk Bublies
Prince Kuramochi Isao Hashizume André Hennicke
Me no Warawa Tomoko Tabata Friedel Morgenstern
Inbe no Akita Tatekawa Shinosuke Peter Groeger
Ōtomo no Dainagon Ryūdō Uzaki Erich Rauker
Isonokami no Chūnagon Tamaki Kojō Rainer Fritzsche
Abe no Udaijin Hikaru Ijūin Hans Hohlbein
Emperor Shichinosuke Nakamura Gerrit Schmidt-Foss
Ayabe no Uchimaro Uwe Jellinek
Ko Arne Kapfer
Otsu Cosmo Clarén
Hey Vicco Clarén
Hey little brother Mathilda Zertani
Ro Theresa Certani
Ha Saskia Tanfal
1) Takeo Chii died during the synchronization recordings. Missing dialogue passages were recorded by Yūji Miyake .
  • German version : Christa Kistner Synchronproduktion GmbH
  • Dialogue script and direction : Erik Paulsen

reception

By mid-December 2013, the film grossed around $ 13 million in Japan. In the Japan Times , Mark Schilling describes the visual style of the film as initially unfinished compared to other Ghibli films, but over the course of the film the style, reminiscent of old Japanese ink drawings, develops further and goes well with the content. Isao Takahata recounts the story that is very well known in Japan, but his own intention to tell remains vague. The end was spooky and in the film as a whole there was "great wisdom, but also great sadness."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.moviepilot.de/news/das-sind-die-oscar-nominierungen-2015-142259
  2. ↑ a b Mark Schilling: Kaguya-hime no Monogatari (The Tale of Princess Kaguya). Japan Times, November 21, 2013, accessed December 27, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Isao Takahata's Kaguya-hime film Delayed to This Fall. Anime News Network , February 4, 2013, accessed December 27, 2013 .
  4. ↑ "How the Wind Rises": The last film by anime master Hayao Miyazaki is in German cinemas. filmstarts.de , May 28, 2014, accessed on May 28, 2014 .
  5. ^ Synchronized files : "The Legend of Princess Kaguya (2013)" , accessed on May 27, 2015
  6. ↑ box office results. Box Office Mojo, December 15, 2013, accessed December 27, 2013 .

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