The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)

Ignore that cast; we watched the Japanese language version.

“A Princess’ Crime and Punishment*”

Directed by Isao Takahata
Starring Aki Asakura, Kengo Kora, Takeo Chii and Nobuko Miyamoto

Following strange lights, a bamboo cutter (Chii) discovers a tiny princess in a bamboo trunk. The girl becomes a baby and the bamboo cutter and his wife (Miyamoto) raise her. She grows swiftly and so is known as Takenoko (Little Bamboo), and becomes close to a local boy, Sutemara (Kora). Finding silken robes and gold in the bamboos, however, the bamboo cutter takes Takenoko (Asakura) to the city to learn to be a princess, and a noble lord agrees to formally name her, dubbing her Kaguya, for the light of life she radiates.

Summer of Lovecraft: Beyond Re-Animator (2003)

“Welcome to a world where death is only the beginning”

Directed by Brian Yuzna
Starring Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Simon Andreu and Elsa Pataky

The Story

This film is a sequel to Re-Animator, rather than an adaptation of the original story. It ignores much of the ending of the first film, however, largely in order to bring Combs’ West back in.

The Film

During the ‘Miskatonic massacre’, one of the reanimated corpses escapes and kills a young woman as her brother, Howard Phillips (geddit?), watches. Phillips later sees Herbert West (Combs) being taken away by the police. Years later, West is continuing his work in prison, when Phillips (Barry) arrives as the new prison doctor, bringing the last of the reagent and asking to work with West.