Translator Reviews ( Japanese → English )

Japanese

竹の中から生まれすぐに成長して美しい娘に育ち、求婚者たちを次々と振ったあげく、満月の夜、迎えに来た使者とともに月へと去ってしまう。これが竹取物語の筋書きだ。それが映画ではどのように展開するのか。キャッチコピーは「姫の犯した罪と罰」という、ただならぬ雰囲気。かぐや姫は数ある星の中から、なぜ地球を選んだのか。この地で何を思い、なぜ月へ去らねばならなかったのか。彼女が犯した罪とは、そして、罰とはいったい何だったのか。物語はこれらの、元の話では曖昧だった疑問に対する真実に迫るという。

English

A princess, who was born out of bamboo soon grew up to be a beautiful lady and rejected all her suitors one after the other, returns to the Moon escorted by the angels on the night with a full moon. This is a scenario of The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter. It is interesting how it is developed in the movie. A movie blurb is somehow unusual: “Crime and Punishment of the Princess”. Of all the starts, why did The Moon Princess or Princess Kaguya chose Earth? What was in her mind, and why did she have to leave for the Moon? What was the crime she committed, and how was she punished? The movie approaches the truth to those questions that were left unanswered in the original story.