Ghibli's Next Film Summer 2010

The official website of Studio Ghibli next project, an adaptation of Mary Norton's The Borrowers (Yukashita n Kobito-tachi) novel, launched on Thursday. Studio co-founder Hayao Miyazaki planned the No. Arrietty Karigurashi (The borrower Arrietty) film since July 2008, but as previously indicated by the producer Toshio Suzuki, Miyazaki does not direct the next film. 36-year-old animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi made his directorial debut with this project. The film will be released in summer 2010.

The original, the Carnegie Medal-winning 1952 novel revolves around the "little people" - 10 cm (about 4 inches) high - living below the floor of an English country house. (The Japanese title literally means "the little people under the floor.") 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home, using elements "borrowed" from inhabitants of the man of the house. However, life changes for the clock when a boy discovers human Arrietty. Ghibli adaptation transport parameter of England in the 1950s in the neighborhood of Koganei Tokyo in 2010. (Koganei in the west of Tokyo is home to a number of Japanese animation studios, Ghibli, including himself.)

Yonebayashi was a Deputy Director of Gedo Senki Ghibli animation, and it was an animation director on Mei Konekobasu short drama. It has also been a key facilitator of Howl's Moving Castle, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, and Spirited Away. Yonebayashi Ghibli joined in 1996, Miyazaki and his colleague Isao Takahata Ghibli founder had beheld with an adaptation of the borrower for about 40 years.

Karigurashi no Arrietty wiki