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Isao Takahata's Kaguya-hime Film Delayed to This Fall
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The distribution company The Wind Is Rising) film. Kaze Tachinu is still slated to open this summer.
TOHO noted that it ed Studio Ghibli at the beginning of this year and received information that the film's storyboards have not yet been completed. TOHO then decided to postpone the release date in order to raise the film's quality even higher.
The famous Japanese folktale Taketori Sakura-Hime Kaden.
Takahata already revealed in 2009 that his next film will be based on the folktale. The tagline on the film's website reads, "A princess's crime and punishment."
My Neighbors the Yamadas about 14 year ago.
The last time that Miyazaki and Takahata had films opening on the same day, or even in the same year, was a quarter of a century ago when Miyazaki's Grave of the Fireflies were shown back-to-back in Japan in 1988.
[Via Eiga.com]
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