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The Secret World of Arrietty

Kari-gurashi no Arietti

Japan

2010

94 Min
Color
1.85:1
Japanese
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DIR Hiromasa Yonebayashi

EXEC Hayao Miyazaki

PROD Toshio Suzuki

SCR Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa, Mary Norton

DP Atsushi Okui

CAST Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mirai Shida, Kirin Kiki, Tomokazu Miura, Keiko Takeshita, Shinobu Ōtake

ED Rie Matsubara

PROD DES Yôji Takeshige, Noboru Yoshida

MUSIC Simon Caby, Cécile Corbel

SOUND Koji Kasamatsu

!F Istanbul (Hit Films), Helsinki (Animated Dreams)

Synopsis

Based on Mary Norton’s The Borrowers the story revolves around a family of tiny, but otherwise normal, people who live hidden in the house of normal sized people, surviving by ‘borrowing’ lost and discarded items that they can use themselves. —Twitch

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Lizandra Brandão

31Mar13

so great photographic direction!

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Mr Ton Ton

17Mar13

Lebih baik dari Tales from the earthsea. Walaupun saya tidak terlalu suka dengan yg satu ini.

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fairyne

11Jan13

Meski cerita sederhana, tapi animasinya cantik. ^^

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ΞRIC B∆D TASTΞ

6Jan13

cute borrowers, cute story.

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A welcome reprieve from frenetic American animated features

By Michael Harbour on March 5, 2012

Lovely hand drawn animation in the style of “My Neighbor Totoro”. the story, adapted by Hayao Miyazaki from Mary Norton’s “The Borrowers” (of which I have fond, though vague, childhood memories) includes…  read review

One of the more straight-forward Gibili films but a lovely tale nonetheless

By Henrik Schunk on January 13, 2012

This is by far my favourite of the Studio Gibli films. Maybe it is the fact that is is based on a ‘Western’ book, but I found the film more down-to-earth and structured in a way that made it easier…  read review

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