Borrowers, The  (2010)
付风关 酒府俊萍

Also Known As: The Borrower Arrietty, 蟥, Karigurashi no Arietti
Starring: Mirai Shida, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Shinobu Otake
Director:Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Genre:Animation, Fantasy
Production:Studio Ghibli
Distribution:CJ Entertainment
Language:Japanese
Country:Japan

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About Borrowers, The
The Borrower Arrietty (蟥 Karigurashi no Arietti) was officially announced by Studio Ghibli on 16 December 2009. The film, an adaptation of Mary Norton's 1952 novel The Borrowers, marked the directorial debut of Ghibli animator Hiromasa "Maro" Yonebayashi, with supervision by Hayao Miyazaki. The film opened in roadshow release in Japan on 17 July 2010.

The story takes place in 2010 in Koganei, western Tokyo and like the novel revolves around a group of "tiny people" who are 10 cm tall that live under the floorboards of a typical human household.A boy named Sho arrives at the house his mother lived in as a child, to live with his great aunt Sadako. When Sho leaves the car, he sees a cat trying to attack something in the bushes, but the cat leaves after being attacked by a crow. Sho goes to see what the cat was trying to attack to see a Borrower named Arrietty.[5] That night Arrietty's father Pod takes Arrietty above the floorboards to show her how he gets sugar. Pod shows Arrietty the kitchen, behind the walls and a dollhouse. Before Arrietty and Pod can leave, Arrietty notices Sho is awake, and drops the sugar cube...