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Sep 25, 2017 · But one thing that distinguishes Mary and the Witch’s Flower from most Ghibli movies is that it does have recognizable villains. Their motives are perhaps a little gentler than those of...
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The ”Fly-by-Night”
Mary Smith moves into the northern English country estate of her Great Aunt Charlotte. The bored, friendless girl tries to make herself useful through chores, but repeatedly messes up. A local boy named Peter teases her for her clumsiness and wild red hair. Tib-cat and Gib-cat, Peter's cats, lead Mary to some mysterious glowing flowers. The gardener identifies the flowers as "fly-by-night"; legend has it that witches covet the flower for its magical power. The next day, Gib-cat disappears. Ti...
Magic Science
Head mistress Madam Mumblechook assumes Mary is a new pupil with Tib as her familiar, and takes her on a tour of the college. She introduces Mary to Doctor Dee, the college's renowned chemistry teacher. Mary finds herself able to perform advanced spells such as invisibility. Madam and Doctor Dee become convinced that Mary is a prodigy because of her performance as well as her red hair, which is a distinguishing feature among the best witches. Mary admits that her magical ability comes from fl...
Mary Decides
The Little Broomstick takes Mary to an isolated cottage on a tiny island that seems to be alive. Inside the cottage, Mary finds notes on spells and a mirror that Great-Aunt Charlotte uses to contact her. Through visions, Charlotte reveals that the cottage was her old home, and she used to be a red-haired pupil who excelled at Endor. One day Charlotte found fly-by-night on the campus, leading Madam and Doctor Dee to obsessively pursue a project to use the flower to transform all humans into wi...
Main Protagonists
Mary Smith (メアリ・スミス , Meari Sumisu) 1. The redheaded, blue eyed, freckled 11-year old protagonist of this tale. She is curious and innocent in the ways of the world. She's forlorn and unsure of herself when she first moves to her Aunt Charlotte's Red Manor. 2. Mary's adventure begins when she discovers a mysterious glowing flower called the "fly-by-night". The magic released from these flowers empowers Mary's broom, which allows her to take flight where she ends up traveling to Endor Universi...
Residents of Red Manor
Charlotte (シャーロット , Shārotto) 1. The kindly mistress of the Red Manor and Mary's great aunt. She watches over Mary. Flanagan (フラナガン , Furanagan) 1. Manager of the broomhouse at Endor University. He appears to be an anthropomorphic mouse. He has a strong fascination with brooms and later saves Mary and Peter's life. Banks (バンクス , Bankusu) 1. The housekeeper who works at the Red Manor. A person Mary relies on for emotional support. Zebedee (ゼベディ , Zebedi) 1. The gardener in the Red Manor. He te...
Endor University
Doctor Dee (ドクター・デイ , Dokutā Dei) 1. A professor and "magic scientist" and a secondary antagonist at Endor University. He studies magic transformations and cavorts with Madam Mumblechook. Madam Mumblechook (マダム・マンブルチューク , Madamu Manburuchūku) 1. The headmistress or principal and "sorceress" and a main antagonist of Endor University. A stern and intimidating evil hearted woman who seeks Mary for her transformation magic experiments.
Origins
At the end of 2014, the animation production department of Studio Ghibli was dissolved following Hayao Miyazaki announcing his retirement in September 2013. In March 2015, Hiromasa Yonebayashi publicly expressed his desire to direct a third film for Ghibli, hoping to move away from a project like When Marnie Was There to a more action-based film like Ponyo. On April 15, 2015, Yoshiaki Nishimura, producer on The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and When Marnie Was There, still an employee of Ghibli...
Planning
Mary and the Witch's Flower is an adaptation of British writer Mary Stewart's 1971 children's book The Little Broomstick. It was first published in 1975 in Japan and re-released with a new translation by Kadokawa in 2017 to accompany the film's release. The film's screenplay is by Riko Sakaguchi (The Tale of Princess Kaguya) and director Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Pre-production began in a building in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan in December 2015. Ponoc's operation began smoothly, starting with adverti...
Production
The film's production was composed of 80% of Ghibli's production staff. Much of the film's style and storytelling was greatly affected by Ghibli. According to Director Yonebayashi, "We employed lots of hand drawn animators for Mary and we are confident that we fully employed their strength and power for the hand drawn animation. With the short films we are trying to employ lots of hand drawn animation and lots of CG animation as well, and it is our challenge to mix these two medias. Hand draw...
Box Office
Mary and The Witch's Flowergrossed $2.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $38.6 million in other territories (including $27.6 million in Japan, $3.8 million in South Korea, $2.9 million in China and $2.6 million in France), for a worldwide total of $41 million. In Japan, the film opened at second place, grossing ¥428 million ($3.9 million) during its opening weekend; this was an increase compared to Yonebayashi's previous film, When Marnie Was There(2014), which had grossed ¥378.86...
Composer Muramatsu Takatsugu, who also scored Yonebayashi's last film When Marnie Was There, is in charge of the soundtrack for Mary and The Witch's Flower. Joshua Messick, one of the world's leading performers of the Hammered Dulcimer, participated in the score recording.
Original
1. Mary - Hana Sugisaki 2. Madam Mumblechook - Yuki Amami 3. Doctor Dee - Fumiyo Kohinata 4. Flanagan - Jiro Sato 5. Great-Aunt Charlotte - Shinobu Otake 6. Peter - Ryunosuke Kamiki 7. Miss Banks - Eriko Watanabe 8. Red-haired Witch (Younger Great-Aunt Charlotte) - Hikari Mitsushima 9. Zebedee - Kenichi Endō 10. Light Fairy - Saori Hayami 11. Tib - Ikue Ōtani 12. Gib- Lynn
English
1. Mary - Ruby Barnhill 2. Madam Mumblechook- Kate Winslet 3. Doctor Dee - Jim Broadbent 4. Flanagan- Ewen Bremner 5. Great-Aunt Charlotte - Lynda Baron 6. Peter- Louis Ashbourne Serkis 7. Miss Banks - Morwenna Banks 8. Red-haired Witch (Younger Great-Aunt Charlotte)- Teresa Gallagher 9. Zebedee - Rasmus Hardiker 10. Light Fairy - Rebecca Louise Kidd Additional Voices 1. Paul Barnhill 2. Toby Davies 3. Maya Gartner 4. Yuma Gartner 5. Robbie McMullan 6. Giles New 7. John Paul Sutherland 8. Geo...
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- Takeshi Inamura
- Akira Inoue, Akihiko Yamashita
- Tomotaka Kubo
- Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Jan 18, 2018 · The biggest throughline of Ghibli and Ponoc is humanity's continued destruction of nature. Based on Mary Stewart's fantasy novel The Little Broomstick, the film's framework seems designed to ...
Apr 27, 2018 · Mary and the Witch’s Flower only differs from the works of those masters due to its fairytale simplicity, and lack of deeper themes beyond what we see on the surface. But that doesn’t do anything to dilute its earnest, heartfelt power.
Dec 20, 2017 · With its debut feature, “Mary and the Witch’s Flower,” Studio Ponoc in Japan offered a new kind of anime fantasy drawn from the DNA of Studio Ghibli. And for founder and former Ghibli ...
- Bill Desowitz
A local boy named Peter teases her for her clumsiness and wild red hair. Tib and Gib, Peter's cats, lead Mary to some mysterious glowing flowers. The gardener identifies the flowers as "fly-by-night"; legend has it that witches covet the flower for its magical power. The next day, Gib disappears.
After finding a magic broomstick, Mary is whisked off to a distant, floating academy for witches and warlocks where she, somehow, exhibits a great deal of magical aptitude, impressing the school’s headmistress and its head of scientific magic. But once the jig is up and the flower is discovered, the school becomes a much more sinister place.
