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Based on the beloved classic The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Arrietty isnât your ordinary fourteen-year-old girlâshe is small enough to make her home under the floorboards of a typical house, âborrowingâ what she and her family need from the giants in whose shadows they live. A young boy named Shawn befriends Arrietty, but when adults discover the Borrowers, Arrietty and Shawn must work together to save her family. Based on the classic novel by Mary Norton, The Secret World of Arrietty is a delight for all ages.
When the ladies in the house discover the Borrowers, Arrietty and Shawn must work together to save her family. They must dodge hungry birds, a prowling cat, a nosy housekeeper, and some pesky exterminators in order to make it out alive. Will the help from Shawn and a newcomer be enough to get their family to safety? Based on the classic novel by Mary Norton, The Secret World of Arrietty is a delight for all ages.
Born in 1973 in Ishikawa-ken, Japan, Hiromasa Yonebayashi studied Commercial Design at the Kanazawa College of Art. In 1996 Yonebayashi joined Studio Ghibli and worked as an âin-betweenâ animator on Princess Mononoke (1997) and My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999), and as Key Animator for Spirited Away (2001), âThe GHIBLIES Episode 2â (2002), Howlâs Moving Castle (2004), and Ponyo (2008). He was also the Assistant Supervising Animator for Tales from Earthsea (2006).
Yonebayashi has also worked on short films for the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka. He was the Director of Animation for the âMei and the Baby Cat Busâ (2002), the Supervising Animator for âImaginary Flying Machinesâ (2002), and also storyboarded and directed âEvolutionâ (2008), a short film documenting the âFilms Go Roundâ exhibit.
Yonebayashi made his debut as the director of a feature-length animated film with Studio Ghibli's production Arrietty. After Arrietty, Yonebayashi directed another Ghibli movie, When Marnie Was There (2014), then left the studio and made Mary and the Witchâs Flower for Studio Ponoc.Â
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