Arrietty

Arrietty
A young woman is hiding under a group of leaves with an image of a house behind her. Text below reveals the film's title and credits.
Theatrical poster for Arrietty
Japanese name
Kanji借りぐらしのアリエッティ
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnKarigurashi no Arietti
Directed byHiromasa Yonebayashi
Screenplay byHayao Miyazaki
Keiko Niwa
Based onThe Borrowers
by Mary Norton
Produced byToshio Suzuki
StarringMirai Shida
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Shinobu Otake
Keiko Takeshita
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Tomokazu Miura
Kirin Kiki
CinematographyAtsushi Okui
Edited byKeiko Kadokawa
Rie Matsubara
Hiromi Sasaki
Takeshi Seyama
Music byCécile Corbel
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 17 July 2010 (2010-07-17)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget$23 million
Box office$146 million[1]

Arrietty, titled Arrietty the Borrower (Japanese: 借りぐらしのアリエッティ, Hepburn: Karigurashi no Arietti) in Japan and The Secret World of Arrietty in North America, is a 2010 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi as his feature film debut as a director, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and Wild Bunch. The screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa,[2][3] was based on the 1952 novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton, an English author of children's books, about a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of a typical household, borrowing items from humans to survive.[4][5] The film stars the voices of Mirai Shida, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Shinobu Otake, Keiko Takeshita, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tomokazu Miura, and Kirin Kiki, and tells the story of a young Borrower (Shida) befriending a human boy (Kamiki), while trying to avoid being detected by the other humans.

Ghibli announced the film in late 2009 with Yonebayashi making his directorial debut. Miyazaki supervised the production as a developing planner.[6] The voice actors were approached in April 2010, and Cécile Corbel wrote the film's score as well as its theme song.[3] This film marks the cinematic debut of Yonebayashi, as well as the British dub marking the cinematic debut of Tom Holland.

The film was released in Japan on July 17, 2010, by Toho, and received positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation and music. It became the highest-grossing Japanese film at the Japanese box office for the year 2010,[7] and grossed over $145 million worldwide.[1] The film also won the Animation of the Year award at the 34th Japan Academy Prize award ceremony.[8] Two English-language versions of the film were produced, a British dub released in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2011, by Optimum Releasing and an American dub released in North America on February 17, 2012, by Walt Disney Pictures.

  1. ^ a b "The Secret World of Arrietty (2012)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  2. ^ "The Secret World of Arriettys". Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  3. ^ a b McCallum, Robyn (2018), McCallum, Robyn (ed.), "Invisible Children: Representing Childhood Across Cultures", Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood: Transforming Children's Literature into Film, Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 211–264, doi:10.1057/978-1-137-39541-2_6, ISBN 978-1-137-39541-2, retrieved November 21, 2021
  4. ^ Hyland, Robert (June 1, 2015). "A culture of borrowing: Iconography, ideology and idiom in Kari-gurashi no Arietti/The Secret World of Arrietty". East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. 1 (2): 205–222. doi:10.1386/eapc.1.2.205_1.
  5. ^ Brighenti, Andrea Mubi; Kärrholm, Mattias (November 1, 2018). "Domestic Territories and the Little Humans: Understanding the Animation of Domesticity". Space and Culture. 21 (4): 395–407. Bibcode:2018SpCul..21..395B. doi:10.1177/1206331217737921. ISSN 1206-3312. S2CID 149419560.
  6. ^ "Studio Ghibli's Next Film Adapts Mary Norton's The Borrowers (Updated)". Anime News Network. December 16, 2009. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
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