The Moonbeam Princess

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"The Moonbeam Princess" is an animated cut-out paper puppet film adaptation of a Japanese fairy tale, directed by Kazuhiko Watanabe, produced by the Gakken Film Company of Japan and released in the U.S. by Coronet Instructional Films in 1965. It tells the story of a princess who is sent to earth on a moonbeam as a baby and raised by a woodcutter and his wife. Although sought by three princes, she returns to the moon leaving magical flowers on earth for her loved ones. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (竹取物語 Taketori Monogatari?), also known as Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫 Kaguya Hime?, 赫映姫 or 輝夜姫), is a 10th-century Japanese folktale, said to be the oldest extant Japanese narrative.

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Gakken Film Company; Coronet Instructional Films

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