{"id":19381,"date":"2009-12-16T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T20:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=19381"},"modified":"2009-12-16T16:08:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T20:08:30","slug":"ghibli-announces-borrower-arrietty-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ghibli-announces-borrower-arrietty-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghibli Announces Borrower Arrietty Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/arietty480_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/arietty480_large-450x318.jpg\" alt=\"arietty480_large\" title=\"arietty480_large\" width=\"450\" height=\"318\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-19382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/arietty480_large-450x318.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/arietty480_large-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/arietty480_large.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Studio Ghibli has formally announced its development of an anime feature film adaptation of British novelist Mary Norton&#8217;s Carnegie Medal winning 1952 novel <b>The Borrowers<\/b>. The original novel was set in the 1950s and told the story of four inch tall &#8220;little people&#8221; who live under the floorboards of an English country house, &#8220;borrowing&#8221; the things they need to live comfortably. Ghibli&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/karigurashi.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karigurashi no Arrietty<\/a>&#8221; (The Borrower Arrietty) will move the setting to present day Koganei, Tokyo and revolve around a human boy discovering the existance of 14-year-old Arrietty Clock and her family of &#8220;little people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>36 year-old Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who has been with Studio Ghibli since 1996 and served as assistant animation director on the studio&#8217;s 2006 feature Ged Senki and director for the 2003 Mei &#038; the Kittenbus short film will direct the picture. Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki initially proposed an anime adaptation of The Borrowers 40 years ago. When asked why he revived the idea last year, Miyazaki said, &#8220;The situation of <i>karigurashi<\/i> (borrowing life) is very nice. It just fits to our present age. The age of mass consumption is ending now and the idea of <i>borrowing<\/i> proves the advent of it with depression.&#8221; The movie will open next summer. The film&#8217;s theme song, &#8220;Arriety&#8217;s Song,&#8221; co-written and performed by French musician Cecile Corbel will be released in Japan on the 19th.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-12-16\/ghibli-next-film-adapts-mary-norton-the-borrowers\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghibliworld.com\/news.html#1612_02\" target=\"_blank\">Ghibli World<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio Ghibli has formally announced its development of an anime feature film adaptation of British novelist Mary Norton&#8217;s Carnegie Medal winning 1952 novel The Borrowers. The original novel was set in the 1950s and told the story of four inch tall &#8220;little people&#8221; who live under the floorboards of an English country house, &#8220;borrowing&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19384,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381\/revisions\/19384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}