Princess from the Moon
Princess from the Moon Taketori monogatari is a 1987 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa and based on The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a centuriesold Japanese fairy tale about a girl from the moon who is discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.
The Dragon prop used in this film was originally going to play the role of the Loch Ness Monster in a collaborative project between Toho and Hammer Film Productions, famous for their Gothic horror films, but that project was shelved.One day wood cutter TaketorinoMiyatsuko Toshiro Mifune discovers a baby girl while hes out in the forest visiting his daughters grave. Not wanting to leave the infant to die and because of her resemblance to his dead daughter, he takes the child home with him only to discover that the child grows at an extraordinarily fast rate. Incredibly beautiful, the now grown child Kaya Yasuko Sawaguchi attracts the attention of everyone around her, including the lands Emperor. Unwilling to accept their advances, Kaya gives the men a list of increasingly difficult tasks. By the films end Kaya returns to outerspace by way of a space ship. ........
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