![]() This influence explains the preference for strong female lead characters he has favored since his early days as an animator. He was strongly influenced by Manga but fell in love with animation when he saw 1958’s The Tale of the White Serpent, the Japanese equivalent of Snow White, (in that it was Japan’s first full length animated feature) and was inspired by the strong female heroine of the story, Bai-Niang. ![]() Studio Ghibli wouldn’t exist without Miyazaki. The Secret World of Arrietty, or Kari-gurashi no Arietti (the Borrower Arrietti), as it is known in Japan, was a long time coming.īeloved animator and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, who co-wrote a screenplay that was adapted from Mary Norton’s fantasy novel The Borrowers, had been thinking about it since he was in his 20s about 40 years ago.* The difference with the films of Studio Ghibli, is that the anime visual style, mixed with the dreamy meditative storytelling delivers a very different experience than the stimula-tron, short-attention-span filmmaking the recent movies from Disney have offered. The Pixar style and design has been far more successful of late. The film is done in the traditional 2D animation style, which has largely become passe in this country. The movie is a charming and slow attentive study of a friendship that teaches two budding youths, albeit of varying sizes, to learn trust, choose fearlessly and keep open hearts. The boy comes to stay and discovers Arrietty, spurring fear and upheaval in the little household, a house that has a strict rule of staying undiscovered by their hosts. ![]() She and her dad “borrow” all they need for their tiny home on the grounds of a sick human boy’s grandmother and curious housekeeper. First released in Japan on July 17, 2010, the North American version makes its debut on February 17.Ī tiny girl lives with her mother and father. The Secret World of Arrietty, the latest offering from the wildly popular Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli, is being released in the U.S.
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