Arrietty

Arrietty, titled The Borrower Arrietty Japanese , 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 and scripted by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa. It is based on The Borrowers by Mary Norton, an English author of childrens 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. 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. Toshio Suzuki produced the film and Studio Ghibli provided the animation.

A boy named Shawn tells the audience he still remembers the week in summer he spent at his mothers childhood home with his maternal great aunt, Jessica, and the house maid, Hara. When Shawn arrives at the house on the first day, he sees a cat, Niya, trying to attack something in the bushes but it gives up after it is attacked by a crow. Shawn gets a glimpse of Arrietty, a young Borrower girl, returning to her home through an underground air vent.At night, Arriettys father, Pod, takes her on her first borrowing mission, to get sugar and tissue paper. After obtaining a sugar cube from the kitchen, they travel inside a hollow wall to a bedroom which they enter through an intriguing dollhouse with working electric lights and kitchen utensils. However, it is Shawns bedroom he lies awake and sees Arrietty when she tries to take a tissue from his night table. Startled, she drops the sugar cube. Shawn tries to comfort her, but Pod and Arrietty quietly leave and go home. ........

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