Studio Ghibli's Next is 'Karigurashi No Arrietty' and Here's a Teaser

Nope, it's not a Miyazaki feature

By: Brad Brevet
Published: Monday, February 8th 2010 at 6:03 AM

Thanks to Twitch I was alerted to a brief teaser trailer for Arrietty (also known as Karigurashi No Arrietty or The Borrowers), the upcoming animated film from Japan's Studio Ghibli featuring the directorial debut of Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Of course, this isn't a typical kind of feature for me to cover, but it hit at the right time and on top of that anyone that's seen Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle or Spirited Away has already seen Yonebayashi's work as he served as a member of the animation department on all three.

This new feature centers on 14-year-old Arrietty Clock and the rest of the Clock family who live in peaceful anonymity as Borrowers. 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. Miyazaki wrote the screenplay based on Mary Norton's novel of the same name, which you can check out at Amazon right here.

The first poster is included in this post and the teaser is featured directly below, with an extended featurette on the film right here and a second video feature with storyboards here.

There is no telling when, or if ,this film will reach the States before finding its way to our Netflix queues, but it doesn't hurt to keep an eye out in the mean time. It hits Japanese cinemas on July 17.