Taketori monogatari

I went into this because I wanted to watch the penultimate movie where the movie goddess Ayako Wakao acted, and while I don't have complaints about her performance I have SERIOUS problems with all the rest. Most of all, the absolute boredom that permeates this whole movie from start to finish. Yeah, the setting and costumes are accurate, but that doesn't excuse the previously mentioned boredom of all. There are also a lot of logical inconsistencies and character incongruencies allaround (the princess wishing to her beloved to be safe by sending him to a mission with a million percent of possibility - didn't someone tell her the odds?! - to die stealing the crown in that regards) that don't help at all. The final close encounters of the third kind rip-off moment seems also thrown completely at random with no discernible reason other than trying to salvage something not salvageable with a cheap shock twist. And good job on the atrocious special effects, they would make blush crap like Manborg for envy. An absolute inanity of a movie that I don't recommend to anyone to get through. Avoid with no remorse whatsoever.