The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)
A princess's crime and punishment.
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 enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.
In The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, consciousness is carried by another substrate — a plane of “moon‑earth myth”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, mortality, class, tradition, longing.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · Arabian fantasy kingdom
Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia (2006)consciousness carried elsewhere · fairy-undersea realm
Elemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · elemental metropolis
Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy (2014)consciousness carried elsewhere · fairy dust realm
Secret of the Wings (2012)consciousness carried elsewhere · seasonal fairy realm
Moana (2016)consciousness carried elsewhere · mythic Polynesian archipelagoSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Wish Dragon (2021)consciousness in monsters · class, identity
Corpse Bride (2005)consciousness in the dead · class, mortality
Shrek (2001)consciousness in monsters · class, identity
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)consciousness in aliens · identity, mortality
Cats (2019)consciousness in animals · class, identity
The Book of Life (2014)consciousness in abstractions · identity, mortality
