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Arrietty

Movie · 2010 · 94 min

A gentle, quietly wondrous summer tale that makes the everyday world feel vast and fragile, with a soft ache of parting.

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2010 anime film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
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Year
2010
Runtime
94 min
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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • survival
  • coming-of-age
  • family
  • isolation
Places
  • single country house
  • countryside
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour3
Realism4
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

Details

Genres
fantasy, children's, supernatural, coming-of-age
Directed by
Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Written by
Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa
Music
Cécile Corbel
Cinematography
Atsushi Okui
Runtime
94 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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