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Release Date:
17 July 1999 (Japan)
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Tagline:
Kanai anzen wa sekai no negai.
Plot:
The life and misadventures of a family in contemporary Japan. full summary | add synopsis
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(2 articles)
Studio Ghibli's New Film... and More Miyazaki
(From Cinematical. 29 September 2009, 4:15 PM, PDT)
Studio Ghibli Announces Next Film, Miyazaki Directing More
(From FirstShowing.net. 28 September 2009, 5:06 PM, PDT)
(From Cinematical. 29 September 2009, 4:15 PM, PDT)
Studio Ghibli Announces Next Film, Miyazaki Directing More
(From FirstShowing.net. 28 September 2009, 5:06 PM, PDT)
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Brilliant...As usual....
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Toru Masuoka | ... | Takashi (voice: Japanese Version) | |
| Yukiji Asaoka | ... | Matsuko (voice: Japanese Version) | |
| Masako Araki | ... | Shige (voice: Japanese Version) | |
| Naomi Uno | ... | Nonoko (voice: Japanese Version) | |
| Akiko Yano | ... | Fujiwara (Nonoko's teacher) (voice: Japanese Version) | |
| Chocho Miyako | ... | Kikuchibaba (voice: Japanese Version) | |
| Tamao Nakamura | ... | Woman wearing glasses (voice: Japanese Version) | |
| Yasuko Tomita | ... | Information clerk of department store (voice: Japanese Version) | |
| Arata Furuta | ... | (voice: Japanese Version) | |
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| James Belushi | ... | Takashi (voice: English version) | |
| Jeff Bennett | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Alex Buck | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| A.J. Buckley | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Dixie Carter | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Erin Chambers | ... | Department Store Clerk (voice: English version) | |
| Maree Cheatham | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Jordan Del Spina | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Jordan Orr) | |
| Flo Di Re | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Melissa Disney | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Suguru Egawa | ... | (voice: Japanese version) | |
| Amber Hood | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Tress MacNeille | ... | Shige (voice: English version) | |
| Edie McClurg | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Jim Meskimen | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Jon Miller | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Liliana Mumy | ... | Nonoko (voice: English version) | |
| Trenton Rogers | ... | Toshio / Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Ashley Rose | ... | Additional Voices (voice) (as Ashley Rose Orr) | |
| Daryl Sabara | ... | Noboru (voice: English version) | |
| Jeremy Shada | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Molly Shannon | ... | Matsuko (voice: English version) | |
| David Ogden Stiers | ... | Narrator (voice: English version) | |
| Matthew Underwood | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Billy West | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
My Neighbors the Yamadas (USA) (literal English title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for mild thematic elements.
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Runtime:
104 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:M |
UK:PG |
Australia:G (original rating) |
Australia:PG (TV rating) |
Ireland:PG |
South Korea:All |
Japan:G |
Singapore:G |
France:U |
USA:PG
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This is the first 100 percent digital movie created by Studio Ghibli. No traditional "cels" were used for this film.
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Spoofs "Gekkô kamen" (1958)
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Soundtrack:
Que Será, Será
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The new Ghibli Studio production, Tonari no Yamadakun, is two years after "Mononoke" a new masterpiece of animation. The story... Well, there is no story. Just a superposition of sequences, each being more hilarating than the preceding. Director Takahata, using computers generated "hand-like" drawings, wanted the result to be as close as possible to the original newspapers comic, and he fully suceeded. In spite of the apparent graphic simplicity, the astounding quality of the animation makes the characters so lively that it seems sometimes more "real" than conventional cell animation.
The yamadas are a typical japanese family, living in the Kansai area (Osaka). They do not speak standard japanese, especially the Granma, so as almost all of the gags are not visual, so if you plan to see it in Japanese, you should have very strong basis of the language. This is one of the most inventive animation movies I've seen since a very long time...