14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
Cinematography
Ordinary objects become epic landscapes—leaves are boats, pins are swords
Sound
Cécile Corbel's harp-heavy score feels like being tucked into a storybook
Production
Painstaking detail on textures: fabric, wood grain, water droplets at micro-scale
Director
Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
JP
