Film Screening:

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

(Iasao Takahata, 2013, 137 min, Japan, in Japanese w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) 

-- Introduced by Prof. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (AMES) / Q&A to follow!

Legendary Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata revisits Japan's most famous folktale in this gorgeous, hand-drawn masterwork, decades in the making. Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her - but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime. From the studio that brought you Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and The Wind Rises comes a powerful and sweeping epic that redefines the limits of animated storytelling and marks a triumphant highpoint within an extraordinary career in filmmaking for director Isao Takahata.

-- Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year in the 2015 Academy Awards

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Sponsors: The Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)