The Tale of Princess Kaguya Teaser

A new trailer for Studio Ghibli’s Oscar-nominated film The Tale of the Princess Kaguya has been released in the UK by Studio Canal. The film, created in a watercolour-style animation, is based on a Japanese folklore tail about a tiny princess found in a bamboo stalk and her journey through life. The movie is released … Continued

A three-minute trailer for Isao Takahata’s The Story of Princess Kaguya (Kaguya Hime no Monogatari) has been aired on NTV and is now online. The film is a retelling of the popular Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Taketori Monogatari) and follows a princess named Kaguya who is discovered inside the stalk of … Continued

New anime releases this week: Mobile Police Patlabor – The New Files (DVD) (MVM Films) RRP: £29.99 Buy from Amazon for £25.00 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya: Collector’s Edition (Double Play) (Studio Canal) RRP: £29.99 Buy from Amazon for £21.99 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Blu-Ray) (Studio Canal) RRP: £19.99 Buy from Amazon … Continued

The 87th Acadamy Awards are almost on us and soon, we’ll be able to see talented professionals from across the film industry gathering to a lavish ceremony to honour the world’s most lauded films of the previous year. With the latest awards show set to take place on 22nd February, the Academy of Motion Picture … Continued

Studio Ghibli’s biggest film of last year was without a doubt Hayao Miyazaki’s (current) farewell piece The Wind Rises, but studio co-founder Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies) had a theatrical feature of his own. The Tale of Princess Kaguya is the first film to be directed by Takahata in fourteen years and is based on the classic … Continued