Mai Mai Miracle

Mai Mai Miracle
Mai Mai Miracle
Directed by	Sunao Katabuchi
Written by	Sunao Katabuchi
Story by	Maimai Shinko; by Nobuko Takagi
Produced by	Nozomu Takahashi; Takuya Ito; Takashi Watanabe; Yuichiro Saito;
Starring	Mayuko Fukuda; Nako Mizusawa; Ei Morisako; Manami Honjou;
Cinematography	Yukihiro Masumoto
Edited by	Kashiko Kimura
Music by	Shusei Murai Minako "mooki" Obata Theme: Kotringo
Production; company	Avex Entertainment Shochiku Madhouse Yamaguchi Broadcasting
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	November 21, 2009;
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	US$75,529 (South Korea)

Mai Mai Miracle (マイマイ新子と千年の魔法, Maimai Shinko to Sen-nen no Mahō, lit. 'Mai Mai Shinko and the Millennium-Old Magic') is a Japanese animated film based on Nobuko Takagi's autobiography, Maimai Shinko. It was produced by the animation studio Madhouse, distributed by Shochiku, and directed by Sunao Katabuchi.

The film debuted at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland on August 15, 2009. The movie's plot is partially based on research on Sei Shōnagon's The Pillow Book.

The city of Hōfu in 2006. 50 years earlier this was a small, rural town, with a main street and not much more. In the *Mai Mai Miracle* year of 1955, rice paddies and wheat fields dominated the countryside. But there *was* a recently built-up area, the "new residence" of the film, where Kiiko Shimazu lives with her father.

^ Video on YouTube
^ "South Korea Box Office: December 18–20, 2009". Box Office Mojo. January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-22.

[1] Video on YouTube

[BOM_Korea-2] "South Korea Box Office: December 18–20, 2009". Box Office Mojo. January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-22.

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