

The secret world of arrietty full movie english dub 12 Pc#
This particular film is set in a contemporary Japan, as evidenced by the delivery-man using a cellphone and the exterminator (I believe) using a tablet PC **. She escapes, and while her father doesn’t hold it against her, Shawn’s curiosity is piqued and he continues to try and see Arrietty again.Īs with Totoro and Ponyo, Miyazaki’s writing is most definitely age-appropriate: Shawn and Arrietty say the kinds of things kids their age would say, and they behave in the correct fashions. Arrietty goes on her first borrowing with her father, Pod, but just before she can borrow a tissue, Shawn wakes up and sees her (but not her father). The tiny girl is Arrietty, a borrower just on the cusp of maturity (fourteen). While there, he catches a glimpse of a tiny girl being chased by the family cat, Nina. The Studio Ghibli adaptation of the novel, written by Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, remains relatively faithful to the novel: a young man named Shawn visits the country home where his parents grew up he’s there because he’s soon to have heart surgery, and he needs to rest. Still, I knew the gist of the story: tiny people that live in the crawlspaces and under the floorboards borrow things that humans won’t miss, and if they are seen by humans, bad things happen. I’ve never read The Borrowers, although I think I may have seen the 1973 Hallmark Hall of Fame version. It runs 94 minutes there is no coda once the video behind the credits fades to black.

Arrietty was released in Japan in 2010 and grossed the U.S.

It’s The Secret World of Arrietty, based on the Mary Norton novel The Borrowers. On Friday *, Miyazaki’s latest presentation to American audiences hit theaters. Her favorite movie is Ponyo, and she loves My Neighbor Totoro as well. Also, although the names are somewhat different in the original Japanese, since I saw this as an English dub, I’m going to use the English names. The year's highest grossing domestic release at the Japanese box office, it subsequently received the Animation of the Year award at the 34th Japan Academy Prize ceremony and achieved considerable international success.ĭuration: 95 mins. | Rating: G | Presented Jan.The following review contains minor spoilers for The Secret World of Arrietty and the novel The Borrowers. If discovered, their relationship could drive Arrietty's family from the home and straight into danger.īased on The Borrowers by Mary Norton, this 2010 film was directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and scripted by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa. But when 12-year-old Shawn, a human boy who comes to stay in the home, discovers his mysterious housemate one evening, a secret friendship blossoms. Like all little people, Arrietty remains hidden from view, except during occasional covert ventures beyond the floorboards to "borrow" scrap supplies like sugar cubes from her human hosts. Fifth Annual Studio Ghibli Film Retrospective: Jan 9- Jan 26Īrrietty, a tiny, but tenacious 14-year-old, lives with her parents in the recesses of a suburban garden home, unbeknownst to the homeowner and her housekeeper.
