Claire is a 2001 film by Milford Thomas.

Claire’s story is loosely based on Kaguyahime

Kaguyahime

is a science fiction manga series by Reiko Shimizu. This 27-volume series was serialized in Lala from 1994 to 2005. The story is based on the Japanese legend of Kaguyahime ....

, on an old Japanese fairy tale

Fairy tale

A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories refer to fairies...

 about an elderly childless couple that finds a child from the moon in a stalk of bamboo

Bamboo

Bamboo is a group of perennial evergreens in the true grass family Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family....

 and raises her as their own. Thomas’ version tells the story of an elderly male couple on a farm in the rural 1920s South

Southern United States

The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive area in the southeastern and south-central United States...

who find the moon princess in an ear of corn.