Adaptations
Kon Ichikawa made a film of the story in 1987. Composer Robert Moran saw it and composed an opera based on it, From the Towers of the Moon.
In 1988, Japanese composer Maki Ishii asked Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián to produce a ballet for his musical work bearing the name Princess Kaguya. The product was a contemporary ballet named Kaguyahime the Moon Princess, where elements of Western and Japanese cultures combine.
Big Bird in Japan includes schoolchildren performing the play within the story.
One Lilpri character, Natsuki, can transform into Kaguya-hime.
The character Kaguya in the game Okami is revealed to have been discovered in a large metallic bamboo shaft. She departs for the moon inside a buried bamboo-shaped rocket.
The plot of the 8th Touhou Project game, Imperishable Night is partially based on the story.
The 2001 film Claire is based very loosely on the tale. In the film, an elderly gay couple discovers a tiny baby girl in an ear of corn and raise her as their own.
The movie "InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass" is based on this tale with some alterations.
The 2013 Studio Ghibli film is to be The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.
In the popular manga series Doraemon, one of doraemon's object is the girl can. Nobita use it and raise a girl named Kaguya
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