Episodes

1. Episode 1

Overview

Okina is a bamboo cutter in ancient rural Japan. One day in the forest, he finds a tiny baby in the folds of a bamboo shoot. He brings the creature home to his wife Ounaa and they decide to keep her and raise her as a princess. She is clearly not of this world. Kaguya grows at an unnatural rate, soon maturing into an uncommonly beautiful young woman. Since Okina has now also found a cache of gold and treasure in the forest, every suitor wants Kaguya. But this is not a fairy tale of courtship and...

Details

Cast

Aki Asakura

Kaguya-hime

Kengo Koura

Sutemaru

Nobuko Miyamoto

Ouna

Atsuko Takahata

Sagami

Takeo Chii

Okina

Shinosuke Tatekawa

Inbe no Akita

Tomoko Tabata

Menowarawa

Nakamura Shichinosuke II

Mikado