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Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be: Studio Ghibli's Arrietty Trailer

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (19)

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If you and/or your kids have never seen any of Hayao Miyazaki’s films, do yourself a favor and get them all right now. Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle and our favorite Ponyo were all put out by Studio Ghibli, the animation company founded by Miyazaki. Once we saw his first film, we ran out to collect them all and they’re in regular rotation at my house. I can practically guarantee that once you’ve seen one you’ll be taken in by the storytelling and beautifully detailed animation.

Studio Ghibli’s next film is based on the beloved children’s book series, The Borrowers, by Mary Norton. The Borrowers are a family of teeny, tiny people who live under the floorboards of a regular-sized human family. Homily, Pod and daughter, Arrietty survive by using things they’ve scavenged around the Big Peoples’ house. Not unlike mice, they generally live in fear of being discovered. But Arrietty, being a typically curious young girl, manages to meet become friends with a human boy.

Here’s the English version of the trailer (with Saorise Ronan, Olivia Coleman, Tom Holland and Mark Strong) there are several voice casts in place (Japanese, English, American), but ours will star Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Bridgit Mendler, Carol Burnett and David Henri.



Unlike most U.S. children’s films these days, Miyazaki’s beautiful tales make me feel like a kid again, full of wonder and all sweet and gushy inside. You’ll be able to catch Arrietty in theaters, early 2012.









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Comments

YAY! I love everything Ghibli has ever done, and this one looks to be stunningly beautiful as well.

We've been getting them from Netflix one at a time, and each one is more beautiful than the next. Spirited Away is my personal favorite, but Nausicaa was pretty amazing as well. We're getting Princess Mononoke next.

And I gotta say, the American dubbing on all of them is really well done. It's always good to see them in the original Japanese, but the dubbing has been fairly excellent on all the ones we've seen.

Posted by: Figgy at July 5, 2011 5:23 PM

I have recently discovered Studio Ghibli films, and I absolutely adore them. My favorite is Whisper of the Heart, because it is so realistic.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 5, 2011 5:27 PM

Figgy, Yes, that's what I've been doing, too. The dubbing is excellent. Often I'll watch the dubbed one first and then the original Japanese with subtitles, because sometimes the translations are different. I bought Whisper of the Heart because I fell in love with it.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 5, 2011 5:30 PM

Satoshi Kon>

Miyaziki is like anime for dummies. Fook that noise.

Posted by: googergieger at July 5, 2011 5:42 PM

YAY! I LOVE all of these movies. Still have a couple more to see like Castle in the Sky and Whisper of the Heart. Howl's is one of my favorite movies of all time. This looks like more great fun!

Posted by: KatSings at July 5, 2011 5:48 PM

This is terrific news. This was one of my favorite books as a kid, and I was so disappointed when she didn't care for it (back when we still did bedtime stories...) and we only got a couple of chapters in before quitting.

If it's a Ghibli production, though, I'm sure she'll change her mind. We still watch Spirited Away on a regular basis, though I think her favorite is Howl's Moving Castle because of a teenage crush on Howl.

Posted by: Wednesday at July 5, 2011 6:11 PM

You forgot Whisper of the Heart, The Cat Returns, Nausicaa, Porco Rosso and Princess Mononoke!

Posted by: Ness at July 5, 2011 9:38 PM

This looks adorable.

Will totally be checking his stuff out on the almighty Netflix.

Posted by: grace b at July 5, 2011 9:59 PM

Love love LOVE Studio Ghibli. I've seen most of the body of work with a few notable stragglers (still need to see Castle in the Sky and My Neighbor Totoro. The animation is always such a treat. Ponyo especially stunned me. Ghibli will always floor me with its gorgeous hand-drawn animation.

Piggybacking on what googergieger said, I think Kon and Miyazaki are apples and oranges. You never have to choose between them because they meet entirely needs. If I feel like having a haunting mind-fuck, I go to Kon. If I want to be dazzled and feel the warm fuzzies, I go to Miyazaki (unless it's Grave of the Fireflies and then I'm just depressed).

Posted by: Sassafrass Green at July 5, 2011 11:51 PM

Haunting mind fuck? Tokyo Godfathers was a pretty big mind fuck I guess.

Millennium Actress as well. I don't know Kon made a lot less anime, what with no big studio to help him out but he had a lot more range then Miyaziki. Miyazaki did Fireflies now? Somehow I doubt that.

Miyazaki is like if Disney made anime. Fluff. Pretty to look at. I mean style over substance and what have you. Anywhoots, I have no problem with kiddy things. He's just too one trick pony for my tastes.

Posted by: googergieger at July 6, 2011 1:28 AM

nami2x vah.... ang ganda talaga.. i like all the scene that ive seen......... !!!!!!!!!!CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: kerobin marocom at July 6, 2011 4:09 AM

Interesting how us in the UK get different voice actors to you guys in the US. It's happens a lot for us - but usually just cameos (like the boorish Jeremy Clarkson) so to have a whole cast change is a little different. As for previous comments R.E. Miyazaki being fluff - I call bullshit.
I love Kon (Paprika is totally awe inspiring) but Miyazaki is certainly not "style over substance." Spirited Away has so many levels and comments to make ranging from pollution to excess and (it could be argued) child prostitution. While his simpler films such as Totoro might well appear to be simple childish fables on the surface - the characters are basically escaping the realities of death and change. it's sort of like a child friendly Pan's Labyrinth. One trick pony seems like a bit of a mad stance to take as well - can you really compare Kiki to Mononoke?

Posted by: Pete Renton at July 6, 2011 5:04 AM

I think the word some people are searching for is "recognition value". Because Studio Ghibli and everything Hayao Miyazakian have exactly that, and charmingly so. But it doesn't extend beyond the fact that the films "look" alike (same eyes, same textures, similar "camera" angles etc.) and the fact that everyone who isn't completely dead inside will be amazed while/after watching. Apart from that, all these masterpieces can impossibly be lumped together.

That said: This looks like something that will soon be found on my DVD shelf.

Posted by: Rooks at July 6, 2011 8:49 AM

If you enjoyed "Nausiica" do yourself a favor and check out the graphic novels (four of 'em). The movie's good but the graphic novel has about a thousand times the character development, and there's a massive battle scene in the second book that I would do just about anything to see animated.

Posted by: twig at July 6, 2011 9:11 AM

Porco Rosso anyone?! That is my shit, I have watched it once a week every week for the last 7 years.

Posted by: Gamal at July 6, 2011 10:00 AM

What a pleasant surprise! I read the books as a kid and I had almost forgotten about them. I will check this out.

Posted by: logan at July 6, 2011 10:08 AM

Perhaps i'm dating myself, but did any of you grow up with the The Littles?
(1983-1985) It was done by DIC, so not as luscious as Ghibli.

Posted by: Scott at July 6, 2011 10:32 AM

Yeah, I hear that a lot for anything you dislike someone else loves. There is more to it than meets the eye. Yeah it's all there to get. End of the day Oldboy painted the picture of revenge being pointless. Really deep stuff. Well, no. It's my favorite movie of all time, but honestly.

Basically Perfect Blue isn't the greatest of animation but it still has such an amazing story it blows most things that came before it and after it out of the water. Before Kon we really didn't see any straight up genre flicks in Anime. Miyazaki is kind of, why did so many of his fans hate Avatar again?

Posted by: googergieger at July 6, 2011 2:24 PM

It's funny you mention the graphic novels being better "twig", because they were actually created because Miyazaki could not get enough funding to make the film.

After the comics came out, and were quite popular, they made the film. It was meant to be a film first.

And I only used quotes for your name because I'm not adept enough, or too lazy, to know/figure out the whole italics/bold text thing.

Posted by: Sam at July 6, 2011 11:22 PM