Geek of Oz

I can't remember the last time an anime made me cry the way The Tale of the Princess Kaguya  did. It might be unorthodox to lead with that off the bat, and while it's not strictly speaking a selling point that a movie is able to cause Kleenex share prices to skyrocket, it's nonetheless a quality with Princess Kaguya . You should know going in, especially since this is a creation from the mind of Isao Takahata - the award-winning scribe who began his career with the soul-crushing depression-fest Grave of the Fireflies  - that The Tale of the Princess Kaguya  will, unless your cardiac region has recently been removed, make you cry. But given that it's an overly-heartwarming, growth of the protagonist tale that follows the eponymous princess from her birth, what else could you expect? The movie opens with an elderly bamboo cutter discovering a tiny child, dressed like a princess, inside a strange-looking bamboo stalk. He takes the little girl home to his wife, whe...