Japan · Anime
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Isao Takahata · 2013
Takahata renders a thousand-year-old folktale in trembling brushwork that lets each era of a woman's life dissolve into the next, treating the body as a vessel briefly inhabited. The film shares Hou's understanding that a single soul can only be glimpsed obliquely, through the periods it must pass through.