Mirai Shida
Arrietty
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The Secret World of Arrietty: Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi. With Mirai Shida, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tomokazu Miura. The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home.
- Hiromasa Yonebayashi
- 3 min
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A boy named Shō remembers the week in summer he spent at his mother's home with his maternal great-aunt, Sadako, and the housemaid, Haru. When Shō arrives, he gets a glimpse of Arrietty, a Borrower girl, hiding in the plants. At night, Arrietty's father, Pod, takes her on her first "borrowing" mission, to get sugar and tissue paper. After obtaining...
Development
On December 16, 2009, Studio Ghibli announced Karigurashi no Arrietty to be released in 2010. The film is based on the novel The Borrowers by the British writer Mary Norton. The novel won the Carnegie Medal for children's literature in 1953, and had already been adapted into two films and a TV series at the time. Studio Ghibli founders Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazakihad been contemplating an adaptation of this novel for the past 40 years. Animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi was announced as the fi...
Casting
The Japanese voice cast of the film was announced on April 13, 2010. Actress Mirai Shida was cast as the voice of Arrietty. Arrietty was Shida's first voice acting role. In addition, Ryunosuke Kamiki, who has voiced characters in other Studio Ghibli films, including Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castlewas cast as Shō. Besides them, the film's cast includes Tomokazu Miura, Shinobu Otake, Keiko Takeshita, and Kirin Kiki. The four actors had previous voice acting experience, but none of them...
The film score of Arrietty was composed by French recording artist and musician Cécile Corbel,the first time a non-Japanese composer worked with the studio. After ending promotion for her second album SongBook vol. 2, Corbel, a fan of the studio's output, sent one of her remaining promo albums to Studio Ghibli. At the time, the film was in pre-prod...
Arrietty was first released in Japanese cinemas on July 17, 2010, by Toho. The film was officially released at a ceremony attended by the film's cast and Yonebayashi. Corbel performed the film's theme song at the event. In addition, Yonebayashi hinted that he wanted the film to beat the record of over 12 million audiences set by previous Studio Ghi...
Box office
Arrietty earned $19,202,743 in North America and $126,368,084 in other territories for a worldwide total of $145,570,827.It is the fourth-highest grossing anime film in the United States, and the highest not based on a game franchise. Arrietty debuted at the first position in the Japanese box office. More than one million people went to see the film during its opening weekend. It grossed around 1.35 billion yen that weekend. Distributor Toho announced that as of August 5, 2010, the film manag...
Critical reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 153 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Visually lush, refreshingly free of family-friendly clatter, and anchored with soulful depth, The Secret World of Arrietty lives up to Studio Ghibli's reputation." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted averagescore of 80 out of 100, based on 56 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Cristoph Mark of The Dail...
Comics
Arrietty was adapted into a Japanese manga series. The adaptation was first published by Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. within Japan, and was released in four separate volumes. Viz Mediareleased the English version of the manga within North America in January 2012.
(IT) Arrietty e l'inestimabile Nemico che colpisce Quando Esci di Casa. on the Italian Comic website uBC - magazine.ubcfumetti.comArrietty (film) at Anime News Network's encyclopediaArrietty at IMDbFeb 17, 2012 · 94% Tomatometer 152 Reviews. 85% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings. Arrietty, a tiny teenager, lives with her parents in the recesses of a suburban home, unbeknown to the homeowner and...
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- Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Gary Rydstrom
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14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
- Hiromasa Yonebayashi
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- 27
Fourteen-year-old Arrietty (Bridgit Mendler, Saoirse Ronan, and Mirai Shida) and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items that they borrow from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty. — ANN.
The Secret World of Arrietty, known in Japan as The Borrower Arrietty (借りぐらしのアリエッティ , Kari-gurashi no Arietti) and in the United Kingdom as Arrietty, is a 2010 animated film by Studio Ghibli, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, and written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa.
From the legendary Studio Ghibli ("Spirited Away," "Ponyo") comes "The Secret World of Arrietty," an animated adventure based on Mary Norton's acclaimed children's book...
