Princess Kaguya (Japanese: かぐや姫, Hepburn: Kaguya Hime)[a] is a 1935 Japanese musical drama film directed by Yoshitsugu Tanaka,[4] with cinematography and special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.

He would later recall in Kinema Junpo: "We tried to create our own frame-by-frame shots for the oxcarts, which I think was the first time this [technique] was attempted in Japan.

We shot about ten plaster figures of oxen in various stages of movement, and then animated them by replacing these static models frame-by-frame.

These plaster figures were the masterpieces of Takefu Asano, and took a period of more than one month to sculpt.

[9] The shortened version of the film was released in Japan on September 4, 2021,[17] after negotiations with the BFI for six years.