The Tale of the Princess Kaguya: Difference between revisions
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* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: This film is, you guessed it, a tale about Princess Kaguya.
* [[Fetch Quest]]: Kaguya's five suitors are asked to find the precious objects which they compared her to — such as the Jeweled Branch of Mount Horai and a robe of fire-rat fur — as a test of their loyalty. {{spoiler|Some of the items brought back were fake, and one suitor died trying to obtain his quest. Another gave up on his quest and turned back.}}
* [[Flight]]: In this case, the characters do not possess the ability to fly on their own, rather, flight is used to represent the emotions of the characters, as well as contrast the supernatural with the regular people. Princess Kaguya and Sutemaru when {{spoiler|they run away together, and are shown to trip and start flying through the landscape to represent their emotions running wild}}. Also {{spoiler|Princess Kaguya's parents briefly do this when they fly up the the cloud the Moon people are standing on at the end of the film.}}
* [[Foreshadowing]]: The conflict between Kaguya's desire to be with nature or to live in the capital. This is established in a scene near the beginning of the film, where the children of the village calls her ''Little Bamboo'' and calls her to come. Her father calls her ''Princess'' and calls for her to come to him. She first walks towards the children — reflecting the [[Arcadia]] life that she lives for the first quarter of the film — but then walks towards her father — reflecting her life as royalty in the capital.
* [[GASP]]: After the running away scene and falling in the snow, Kaguya wakes back up in the house she ran away from, {{spoiler|the first sign that she is a resident from the moon}}, and GASPs at this sudden realisation.
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* [[Ten-Minute Retirement]]: When Kaguya abandons her role as a princess and runs back to her childhood home. She shortly returns to the role when she discovers that {{spoiler|the children she grew up with has moved away.}}
* [[Time Skip]]: As the film follows the life of Princess Kaguya from birth to death, there are bound to be some of these scattered throughout the film. The skips from when Kaguya is a toddler to a child is noticeable, although many of the other skips are much more subtle and can easily be missed.
* [[Walking on Water]]: Princess Kaguya's parents do this near the end of the film. {{spoiler|The Princess is being taken away to the moon, and her parents beg and plead for her to stay. They run on water and fly up to the clouds where the Princess is.}}
* [[Weird Moon]]: In this case, the weirdness comes from size. In some shots of the film, notably the last one before the credits, the Moon takes up over half of the screen. The shot is made more weird by the lack of saturation when compared to the rest of the film. {{spoiler|Justified, as Kaguya is from the Moon.}}
* [[World's Most Beautiful Woman]]: Princess Kaguya, to the point where even the Emperor of Japan took interest in her appearance, and Kaguya receives ''many'' letters from people waiting outside her palace. The five suitors race to her palace, causing a stampede and knocking bystanders into a river. {{quote|'''Narrator''': As time went on, rumours of the princess's beauty grew, the streets outside the mansion became crammed with people, hoping to catch a glimpse of the mysterious Princess Kaguya.}}
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