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Ghibli's Karigurashi no Arrietty to Open on July 17
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Cécile Corbel, the Breton folk-singer & Celtic harpist from who co-wrote and performed the "Arriety's Song" theme song.
Karigurashi no Arrietty is an adaptation of Hiromasa Yonebayashi is making his directorial debut with this project.
The original, Carnegie Medal-winning 1952 novel revolves around the "little people" — 10 centimeters (about 4 inches) tall — who live underneath the floorboards of an English country house. (The Japanese title of the book 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 from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty. Ghibli's adaptation will transport the setting from 1950s England to the Tokyo neighborhood of Koganei in 2010. (Koganei is the western Tokyo home of a number of Japanese animation studios, including Ghibli itself.)
Source: Nausicaa.net
