CINEMA EAST SERIES/STUDIO GHIBLI: TAKAHATA: From Studio Ghibli, the studio that brought you the Academy Award®-winning SPIRITED AWAY, comes a powerful and soaring epic that redefines animated storytelling and marks a triumphant highpoint within an extraordinary filmmaking career for director and studio co-founder Isao Takahata. The Tale of Princess Kaguya was nominated for an Academy Award® and hailed as a masterpiece by critics.
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her – but ultimately, she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.The Tale of Princess Kaguya showing at: May 29, 7:45 pm
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Location: Pickford Film Center1318 Bay St, Bellingham, WA, 982253