Such good analogy to how Asian parents think they are providing their children with the best potential future but often at the expense of their children’s own happiness.
i love this movie because it also gives us a glimpse of the life of an ancient Japanese princess. It's so different from the depiction of the lives of a Western royalty.
to be timeline specific, the Heian period but there's no difference with the West, especially if you narrow it towards the Middle Ages towards the Renaissance
@d i'm pretty sure nothing have really change ... meaningless ritual : exist , pomp : exist , ESPECIALLY obsession with physical appearance : exist... see everything you said is still exist but less spirituality and tradition in it.,,, yes even in western modern culture
@R - To be fair, consideration for children’s needs/emotions during their upbringing, emphasis on intention/motive over superficial gifts, and re-embracing the simpler acts of life - all these are values that have gained traction in recent times, and all these are values that kaguya clearly stands in favor for.
@@UGNAvalon kaguya cases is simply different , she have to go through all of this because of her parents , because she is become rich .... im really not pretty sure if all of non aristrocats japanese even womens looks this way Many people have all of that values you mentioned even in past times , they have this life... kaguya even got that life before she get rich... even her boyfriend live that way... what she really wanted is already exist in her times. So i dont see any way to regard modern way of life is different in this specific aspect ... my point in earlier comment was specifically talking about meaningless ritual ( which all of people in their respective times and places willing to do ) , pomp , obsession with physical appearance... not what best life to live or even her goal ...
Except Lady Kaguya here is shelled inside a wooden cage of an estate far away from the humanity she first wanted to find in the first place, so yeah really depressing 😭😭
That's why I can't blame her grandma for putting Mulan's cricket pet in Mulan's pocket when going to the matchmaker because maybe the grandma knows what it feels to be a woman that is forced to marry against your will
Can't even hate her father. He truly did love her and want to make her happy but poor uneducated peasant that he was he fell for the dehumanizing propaganda of what "success/status" means in his society, no less than God-knows how many do the same in every culture on earth, including our own. As someone who would love to have kids someday, this film is almost a horror story: The idea of genuinely wanting to make sure your child has the perfect life as you understand it, only to unwittingly wreck it beyond all repair... The film is fiction, but the story is not.
This is my story. I found this movie so damn relatable, even though it is far from my literal reality. It’s hard to articulate the difficulty, and I wish I could show this to my parents and have them come to understand why I wanted them to see it.
This movie gives me an ache in my heart. No tears, nothing, not a single clue why I felt such sorrow. The movie is gorgeous, and sad, just like how life is.
@Gillian Day - The whole thing starting from the night she left her hometown. Nothing but strict rules, unreasonable customs, slimy suitors, crushing confinement/isolation, the loss of everything that she loved from her old life... and all this to make her “properly happy”..
To Western viewers who aren’t familiar with East Asian cultures, this is definitely going to be culture shock. This is what ancient Japanese beauty standards were like. Just like how in historical Western movies, they show the old beauty standards like scenes of women getting corsets tied onto them.
@@neilworms2 It was like a status symbol at the time, while white teeth yellow by time, black teeth stays forever, some Samurai would prefer a head with blackened teeth than white teeth as a war trophy
@@neilworms2 honestly if you don't have modern dental care, blackening your teeth sounds legit, like it actually did preserve, them so it's not just a weird aesthetic thing.
@@neilworms2 it's a great example of how different beauty standards are across both time and cultures for you - some famous novels from that real life time period had people look at white teeth and find it disgusting how they 'shine' in the mouth and compare them to skinless caterpillars. is it truly any weirder than the bleached white look that's popular now? neither of them are the natural colour of teeth, and both require a fairly unpleasant mix of chemicals to pull off, but one is one you're used to seeing, and the other is not.
Kaguya is sad because earth isn't her home. She longs to return back to palace on the moon. Whether it be with her adopted father or a life at the imperial court, earth isn't her home and she longs to return back to the moon and leave the cares of mortals behind her just like how the Chinese emperor Xuanzong and the beautiful Yang Gufei wished.
@@MarcusCato275 Pretty sure Kaguya's long tear-filled monologues to her parents regretting her call for help, or her plea to the moon folk to respect the flaws/beauty of earth/its ppl, would disagree with you. :P
Regardless of the deeper meaning of her crying after her brows being plucked, it’s so relatable to the first time I did it, hurts like hell and somehow tears fall down spontaneously
It reminded me of victor releasing the butterfly after drawing its beauty so it'll stay forever just like emily's beauty. Emily turned back to where she belong but we'll always remember how beautiful she was while living. (Corpse bride by tim burton)
@Cham 176 - Also, _ancient_ japanese standards of beauty are different from _modern_ japanese standards of beauty. You may as well say the same about “ancient” western powdered wigs & corsets.
Ironically, Mulan left that life on her own terms, and found her own path that suited her well. Kaguya was trapped in this “prom & proper” life, until she ultimately had to leave _everything_ behind. D;
i know... kind of? the closest i've felt to this was at school, having no friends. teachers all think you're doing great because of how quiet and studious you seem and you're just dying inside and longing to run away. anyway. it gets better somehow. god bless.
They did it because a noble woman does not need eyebrows, eyebrows are to prevent sweat from going into the eyes, which noble women will never need to do hard labour.
As far as I know in ancient Japan it was a Beauty Standard for noble women to pluck them. They prevent sweat and a noble woman does not do hard work.I'm not sure I hope it helps
I thought they painted their teeth black to inhibit them from smiling, since one of the rules in the geisha book is to always keep your lips tied together... Idk, I read it somewhere...
in Asia, white teeth were seen as akin to being similar to beasts/animals (in nearby civilizations, the same is applied towards naturally-shaped teeth, hence some file the teeth; in Southeast Asia, chewing betel-lime as a pastime caused the teeth to blacken over time) this is similar in the West how smiling was considered low-class behavior (and during the advent of photography, vulgar/immoral as it was seen as flirting with the taker)
yooringonghan I don't know well about southeast asian culture, but surely I can say painting their teeth in black was only in Japan. On the other hand, Old Korean and Chinese people didn't paint their teeth and also they didn't assume black teeth are attractive. There are so many different cultures and countries in Asia.
A symbol of loyalty. White teeth becomes yellow with time, black teeth don't. Example: White teeth that becomes yellow its like someone that changes its master. Black its unchanging it remains the same/Loyal as a Samurai should be to his Daimyo,his path or as a Noble should be to their emperor.
Such good analogy to how Asian parents think they are providing their children with the best potential future but often at the expense of their children’s own happiness.
like the little bird in the cage, she just wants to be free in the countryside
@pikachu pikapika oh.
@@blache24 i hate isolation. now i know how Kaguya feels
@Keren Crispe i see
@Joshua Fischer sorry
That single tear is so powerful
It displayed more emotion than most Anime these days do
Leocario shiny even if having your eyebrows plucked hurts like hell
it does hurt a little
@@アリス-h9t just shave it
I always cry when I get my eyebrows done do 😂, but yeah, it was a good scene
I really loved the servant she had, she was adorable
I KNOW SHE IS SO CUTEEEE
yeah omg-
yeah, i call her neko. shes a cutie
Even went out of her way to bring kaguya to her old home, and sent her off with her favorite song. Now that’s a true friend!
😭😭
I wanted to squish and hug the servant so bad and cry on her. She seems like a short person so extra points
One of Studio Ghibli's most underestimated movies
João Brandão i’ve seen almost all of them and this is by far my favourite, i think it comes close if not better than Spirited Away
Madeleine Alice Ross ive only seen this one tbh
Coz U have no idea..
U probably don't know what underrated means...
don't like the word "Underrated"
the spherical bird cage is Earth, the bird is Princess Kaguya. a very subtle foreshadowing.
she wants to be free as a bird
i love this movie because it also gives us a glimpse of the life of an ancient Japanese princess. It's so different from the depiction of the lives of a Western royalty.
to be timeline specific, the Heian period
but there's no difference with the West, especially if you narrow it towards the Middle Ages towards the Renaissance
gone but not forgotten
@d i'm pretty sure nothing have really change ... meaningless ritual : exist , pomp : exist , ESPECIALLY obsession with physical appearance : exist... see everything you said is still exist but less spirituality and tradition in it.,,, yes even in western modern culture
@R - To be fair, consideration for children’s needs/emotions during their upbringing, emphasis on intention/motive over superficial gifts, and re-embracing the simpler acts of life - all these are values that have gained traction in recent times, and all these are values that kaguya clearly stands in favor for.
@@UGNAvalon kaguya cases is simply different , she have to go through all of this because of her parents , because she is become rich .... im really not pretty sure if all of non aristrocats japanese even womens looks this way
Many people have all of that values you mentioned even in past times , they have this life... kaguya even got that life before she get rich... even her boyfriend live that way... what she really wanted is already exist in her times. So i dont see any way to regard modern way of life is different in this specific aspect ...
my point in earlier comment was specifically talking about meaningless ritual ( which all of people in their respective times and places willing to do ) , pomp , obsession with physical appearance... not what best life to live or even her goal ...
"a woman is made, and in the making, humanity is lost"
they'll never find a girl as beautiful as her
Takahata's directing was so beautiful and elegant and this scene illustrates it really well. Nothing comes close in the world of animation.
a drawing masterpiece!
It’s like mulan’s scene, but one million times more depressing
It’s also like Mulan’s scene, but it’s Japanese-flavored.
Except Lady Kaguya here is shelled inside a wooden cage of an estate far away from the humanity she first wanted to find in the first place, so yeah really depressing 😭😭
That's why I can't blame her grandma for putting Mulan's cricket pet in Mulan's pocket when going to the matchmaker because maybe the grandma knows what it feels to be a woman that is forced to marry against your will
Can't even hate her father. He truly did love her and want to make her happy but poor uneducated peasant that he was he fell for the dehumanizing propaganda of what "success/status" means in his society, no less than God-knows how many do the same in every culture on earth, including our own.
As someone who would love to have kids someday, this film is almost a horror story: The idea of genuinely wanting to make sure your child has the perfect life as you understand it, only to unwittingly wreck it beyond all repair...
The film is fiction, but the story is not.
This is my story. I found this movie so damn relatable, even though it is far from my literal reality. It’s hard to articulate the difficulty, and I wish I could show this to my parents and have them come to understand why I wanted them to see it.
At the end of this movie I cried a river, because I felt like I was actually princess Kaguya in her free trial on earth.
is it just me or is her maid so cute?
Yah me she is cute😭😭😭 and she is the one who wake her up in the end with the kids
This movie gives me an ache in my heart. No tears, nothing, not a single clue why I felt such sorrow. The movie is gorgeous, and sad, just like how life is.
this movie had me heart broken
in the ending?
@Gillian Day - The whole thing starting from the night she left her hometown. Nothing but strict rules, unreasonable customs, slimy suitors, crushing confinement/isolation, the loss of everything that she loved from her old life... and all this to make her “properly happy”..
To Western viewers who aren’t familiar with East Asian cultures, this is definitely going to be culture shock.
This is what ancient Japanese beauty standards were like. Just like how in historical Western movies, they show the old beauty standards like scenes of women getting corsets tied onto them.
The black teeth is the hardest one for me to wrap my head around
@@neilworms2 It was like a status symbol at the time, while white teeth yellow by time, black teeth stays forever, some Samurai would prefer a head with blackened teeth than white teeth as a war trophy
@@neilworms2 honestly if you don't have modern dental care, blackening your teeth sounds legit, like it actually did preserve, them so it's not just a weird aesthetic thing.
@@neilworms2 it's a great example of how different beauty standards are across both time and cultures for you - some famous novels from that real life time period had people look at white teeth and find it disgusting how they 'shine' in the mouth and compare them to skinless caterpillars.
is it truly any weirder than the bleached white look that's popular now? neither of them are the natural colour of teeth, and both require a fairly unpleasant mix of chemicals to pull off, but one is one you're used to seeing, and the other is not.
This scene make me sad and mad
because she was groomed to become the "perfect" vision of extraordinary beauty?
Exactly, and all against her will, and all against what was truly meant for her proper upbringing.
Kaguya is sad because earth isn't her home. She longs to return back to palace on the moon. Whether it be with her adopted father or a life at the imperial court, earth isn't her home and she longs to return back to the moon and leave the cares of mortals behind her just like how the Chinese emperor Xuanzong and the beautiful Yang Gufei wished.
@@MarcusCato275 Pretty sure Kaguya's long tear-filled monologues to her parents regretting her call for help, or her plea to the moon folk to respect the flaws/beauty of earth/its ppl, would disagree with you. :P
An absolute MASTERPIECE, I can't do but cry and cry and cry every single time I see it. One of my favorite animated films of all time, for sure.
Regardless of the deeper meaning of her crying after her brows being plucked, it’s so relatable to the first time I did it, hurts like hell and somehow tears fall down spontaneously
When she released the bird, it kinda reminded me of Jasmine releasing the doves lmao
It reminded me of victor releasing the butterfly after drawing its beauty so it'll stay forever just like emily's beauty. Emily turned back to where she belong but we'll always remember how beautiful she was while living. (Corpse bride by tim burton)
@@lilbeias338I love corpse bride.
This is one of the saddest and heaviest scenes in the movie.
What’s nice is that her true beauty comes back after awhile.
I seen it once and I never wanted to see it again but I changed now and I want to watch that movie again one day.
someday
What
The most painfully beautiful feminist movie ever
Such a nice movie.
I hate the fact that they made her ugly when she’s naturally pretty
Japanese standards of beauty aren’t the same as western cultures
Je ne suis pas américain
馬鹿 😂
That was how beauty was perceive in traditional Japanese. Kind of how in Ancient China they would bind a girls feet as it was seen as attractive.
@Cham 176 - Also, _ancient_ japanese standards of beauty are different from _modern_ japanese standards of beauty.
You may as well say the same about “ancient” western powdered wigs & corsets.
I felt every human emotion watching this movie.
listen carefully you will hear the sound of bullfrogs
I watched this movie with my sister in 2019
The old times were better
Kinda reminds me of the Mulan scene but without singing lol
Ironically, Mulan left that life on her own terms, and found her own path that suited her well.
Kaguya was trapped in this “prom & proper” life, until she ultimately had to leave _everything_ behind. D;
@@UGNAvalon I know but I was just talking about that one scene with the make-up.
Oh god, this is from Grave of the Fireflies (the music)!!!! 0:54
Mega oof moment
Gives an Okami(HD) feel.
Okami and this were based off the same kind of art to begin with
눈썹이랑 이가 까매지니까 진짜 귀신같다. 난 예전의 가구야의 모습이 더 좋은..
*Mother of Chakra*
Sin duda es hermosa la película
happyness and status are two different things
the ending tho....
i love this movie sm
Ouch
"pain is beauty"
Am I the only girl who feels like her?
i know... kind of? the closest i've felt to this was at school, having no friends. teachers all think you're doing great because of how quiet and studious you seem and you're just dying inside and longing to run away.
anyway. it gets better somehow. god bless.
I dunno, are you? The world doesnt revolve around you buttercup.
@@Voltron4500 Wow you seem really nice
Growing up is a pain
:(
قصه حلوه
when she's royalty, i thought she would not be the same
where can you watch this?
with english sub
Netflix
😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
They have to pluck all the eyebrow hairs?
Yea, so painful 😣
They did it because a noble woman does not need eyebrows, eyebrows are to prevent sweat from going into the eyes, which noble women will never need to do hard labour.
Traditions are stupid.
これ1秒に100枚のセル画使ってるんだっけ？
Wait.. why did that person pluck all of her eyebrows off?
If anyone could explain this to me, please.
As far as I know in ancient Japan it was a Beauty Standard for noble women to pluck them. They prevent sweat and a noble woman does not do hard work.I'm not sure I hope it helps
아니 시발 새로 그릴거면 왜 뽑으시냐고요ㅠㅜㅜㅜ 개빡쳐
어! 이거 틱톡에서 봤던거다!!>
WHAT IS THIS??
Animation made in Japan ``Kakaya Princess''
@@user-tt9cl7gh1t no your wrong it's ``Papaya Princess"
😂😂@@stardustreverie6880
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Painting teeth black? How's that attractive?
Back then, japanese royalty and upper class citizens saw purely black objects as beautiful. this includes teeth
I thought they painted their teeth black to inhibit them from smiling, since one of the rules in the geisha book is to always keep your lips tied together... Idk, I read it somewhere...
@@davilopes5925 Her teacher said something similar
in Asia, white teeth were seen as akin to being similar to beasts/animals
(in nearby civilizations, the same is applied towards naturally-shaped teeth, hence some file the teeth; in Southeast Asia, chewing betel-lime as a pastime caused the teeth to blacken over time)
this is similar in the West how smiling was considered low-class behavior (and during the advent of photography, vulgar/immoral as it was seen as flirting with the taker)
yooringonghan I don't know well about southeast asian culture, but surely I can say painting their teeth in black was only in Japan. On the other hand, Old Korean and Chinese people didn't paint their teeth and also they didn't assume black teeth are attractive. There are so many different cultures and countries in Asia.
1:06 EW! Why did her teeth have to get painted?
일본에서 저게 문화임
What do the teeth have to be black?
A symbol of loyalty. White teeth becomes yellow with time, black teeth don't. Example: White teeth that becomes yellow its like someone that changes its master. Black its unchanging it remains the same/Loyal as a Samurai should be to his Daimyo,his path or as a Noble should be to their emperor.
That ain’t a transformation scene?
How dis a real story :0 Americans went to da moon and saw nothin but dust and rocks
It’s a fantasy movie. Not everything has to be real in this.
ameritards have never been to the moon, you goofball