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Only Yesterday
Why this pick
Takahata pairs delicately observed everyday life with hand-drawn beauty and a quietly devastating inquiry into womanhood, memory, and the life one is expected to choose.
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MOVIE2013 2h 17m JPN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Its near-wordless, painterly storytelling and elemental natural world create the same fable-like emotional clarity, balancing wonder, loss, and acceptance without sentimentality.
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Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Why this pick
A young woman moves through a fantastical Kyoto night in exuberant watercolor-like animation; it shares Kaguya's feminine viewpoint, folkloric playfulness, and freedom-seeking spirit.
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Song of the Sea
Why this pick
Irish folklore and flowing storybook imagery support an emotionally sincere tale of family and longing, with a handmade visual lyricism close to Kaguya's expressive delicacy.
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Millennium Actress
Why this pick
A woman's life, art, and memory sweep together into a romantic, melancholic odyssey. Its emotional force comes from the same sense of yearning for an unreachable inner freedom.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Kaguya is a beautiful young woman coveted by five nobles. To try to avoid marrying a stranger she doesn't love, she sends her suitors on seemingly impossible tasks. But she will have to face her fate and punishment for her choices.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kengo Kora
Sutemaru (voice)
Atsuko Takahata
Lady Sagami (voice)
Tomoko Tabata
Menowarawa (voice)
Takaya Kamikawa
Ishitsukuri no Miko (voice)
Takeo Chii
Okina (voice)
Nobuko Miyamoto
The Bamboo Cutter's Wife (voice)
Hidetoshi Nishijima
The Minister of Culture (voice)