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Arrietty to Arrive in Australian Cinemas on the 12th January 2012

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Arrietty to Arrive in Australian Cinemas on the 12th January 2012 1

Arrietty, also known as Karigurashi no Arrietty is the latest Studio Ghibli movie to make its way into English. Madman Entertainment, distributor of the movie in Australia have announced that the movie will be available in cinemas starting from the 12th January 2012 in both English Language and Japanese with English subtitles. The movie runs for a total of 94 minutes.

Arrietty to Arrive in Australian Cinemas on the 12th January 2012 2Synopsis:

This is a story of a family of “little” people.

Beneath the floorboards of a sprawling mansion set in a magical, overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14-year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents. The house is occupied by two old ladies, who are absolutely unaware of the existence of their miniature tenants.

Arrietty and her family live by “borrowing”. Everything they have, they borrow or make from the things they have borrowed. Essentials like gas, water and food. Tables, chairs, cooking utensils. And treats – a sugar cube here, a scrap of material there. But only a little each time, so the ladies do not notice.

A 12-year-old boy, Sho, moves into the mansion while he waits for urgent medical treatment in the city. Arrietty’s parents have always warned her:
“Never let humans see you.” Once seen, little people always have to move on. But the adventurous Arrietty doesn’t listen, and Sho discovers her.

The two begin to confide in each other and, before long, a friendship begins to blossom…

About the Source Novel:
“The Borrowers” is the first in a series of children’s fantasy novels by Mary Norton. Published in 1952, it won the Library Association’s Carnegie Medal for that year, and in 2007 it was selected by judges of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children’s literature, as one of the ten most important children’s novels of the past 70 years. The other novels in the Borrowers series are “The Borrowers Afield” (1955), “The Borrowers Afloat” (1959), “The Borrowers Aloft” (1961) and “The Borrowers Avenged” (1982).

Mary Norton was born in 1903 and brought up in a house in Bedfordshire, which was to become the setting for “The Borrowers”. She began writing while working for the British Purchasing Commission in New York during the Second World War. Her first book was “The Magic Bed Knob”, published in 1943, which, together with the sequel “Bonfires and Broomsticks”, became the bases for the 1971 film BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS, starring Angela Lansbury. “Poor Stainless” was the last Borrowers story Mary Norton wrote before she died in 1992.

Other Information:

For those who are curious if this release will have the Disney (North American) or Optimum (United Kingdom) dub, the casting list evidences that it will be using the Optimum dub which can be sampled in the below video:

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