When is too early to go on to a different life?
Is it based on actual time?
The time you spent together?
How long you felt?
The scene where Kaguya opens the scroll quick was an allegory for Takahata's tale. A tale of a girl/woman whose life ended too early.
The scroll that Kaguya opens quickly opposed to slow and lady-like as instructed by Sasami-sama indicates not real time, but the passage of time as one lives, quicker than one expects as one leaves this world. (Moon) Princess Kaguya goes away when it's revealed that her incestously referred to but unrelated Satemaru-nee-chan has gone on and married after 10 years separate thanks to forces beyond her control as represented not only by the Buddhist-like moon spirits, but also her parents, class struggles and ones attempts to keep everybody happy, in a life where really nobody is happy.
Like the moon, bamboo, bugs and beasts, we enjoy the nature-looking aspect of the film, a primal urge to procreate, even give milk (for mothers).
The tale was very Kaneto Shindo-like, incorporating tales of spirits with the plights of woman. The film had a length of that of Batman Begins/Farewell, My Concubine entirely encompassing someone's life. It has My Concubine's tale of fortune, but lacks Kaneto Shindo's mentor, Kenji Mizoguchi's use of long takes for accessibility.
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