![]() ![]() Sho agrees to keep their secret, as he and Arrietty form an unlikely friendship that helps mature her, and bring healing to the invalid boy’s soul.Īs with all these adventures, where we have heroes, we also have villains. On her first mission out into the real world, Arrietty bungles the whole thing by getting caught by Sho and revealing their existence to the outside world. Arrietty lives with her mother, Homily, and father, Pod, under Sho’s house and has just gotten to that stage where Pod is going to teach her the finer points of “borrowing”. ![]() This family “borrows” those little, unneeded and cast aside, things that humanity looks over in order to survive in their world of giant leaves and even more giant people above. Beneath the boards and foundations of the house life a family of “little” people called Borrowers. While it’s not one of the award winning Ghibli films, Arrietty is still a great film in its own right.Īdapted from the books by Mary Norton, Arrietty begins with a sickly child named Sho stumbling upon a secret inside his summer home. Surprisingly, The Secret World of Arrietty is not taken from a Japanese tale, or from an adapted Japanese tale, but rather an American set of novels titled The Borrowers, which gives it a much more mainstream feel that your average American can resonate with a bit more than some of the other films in the Ghibli series. It’s not nearly as epic as Princess Monnonoke or as dark and brooding as Castle in the Sky or The Wind Rises, but rather focuses in on the enjoyment of those simple things in life. In fact, it’s one of my very favorite ones of the series, simply because its so much fun and fully spunk and spirit. Now, that’s not meant as a negative connotation to the film. If I had to look back over the long line of Studio Ghibli films that I’ve viewed, I would have to say that Arrietty is the most simplistic and airy film of the whole series. It acts both as a sweet tale about enjoying the simple things in life, as well as just BEING a simple story at heart as well. The Secret World of Arrietty is first and foremost, a tale of simplicity. With these new releases, Shout Factory and Studio Ghibli have worked together to rectify those small issues and re-release their lineup on Blu-ray once more at a substantially lower price than Disney was able to. traditional direct translations from the Japanese language tracks that REALLY frustrated purists (myself included). Disney did some great stuff with their Studio Ghibli releases, but there were a small handful of titles (such as Princess Monnonoke) that had subpar subtitles as Disney used “Dubtitles” (translations of the English dub) vs. I missed the opportunity to review for you all 8 titles that were released on the 17th of October, but over the course of the next month or so there will be another set of batches that are coming over via Shout, and I’ll be putting those out for you. Over this last month they have released 8 of their original titles that were given to Disney, and are in the works to redistribute just about all the rest of their titles (minus the ones licensed to Universal and Up on Poppy Hill and Grave of the Fireflies), INCLUDING the single title that even Disney couldn’t get. As of this year Studio Ghibli has officially cut ties with Disney proper for their releases and have moved over to Shout Factory as their new distributor. ![]()
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