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So let me be clear I hadn't read the novel, but what I did do was watched the anime series adaptation from 2009 Genji Monogatari Sennenki, I'd mostly enjoyed it and game it 8/10 (7.5/10, if there was the option), so that lead me to find that there was an older anime film adaptation and it peaked my interest, so I'd watched it and oh I was both impressed and kinda disappointed at the same time.

I felt that this film had compressed the original story too much, if I hadn't seen the anime series adaptation and read the wikipedia page of the novel, I wouldn't ... actually know what's going on in the film, there were some scenes which were cutted out and there's basically no character introduction which makes the film frankly hard to follow, so that's my main criticism really.

Animation wise though, even while watching in VHS tape quality looked amazing, the voice acting was good enough and the music was fitting too.

Personally I don't really feel I can judge the story aspects of the film or novel since well I haven't read the novel and the topics of Genji Monogatari is to me mostly a historic artifact, something not really to enjoy in a modern sense but to analyse society of Japan 1000 years ago.

So overall, it's a 7/10, if you haven't read the novel or know the story of Genji Monogatari already, I would say read the novel first (or even the 2009 anime series adaptation first), then watch the film, even though I criticized it for compressing the novel too much, the film still makes the cut as a classic anime film imo.