Hôhokekyo tonari no Yamada-kun (1999)

Director:

Isao Takahata

Writers:

Hisaichi Ishii (comic)
Isao Takahata (writer)

Release Date:

17 julio 1999 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family

Frase comercial:

Kanai anzen wa sekai no negai.

Plot:

The life and misadventures of a family in contemporary Japan.

Plot Keywords:

Dysfunctional Family | Japanese Family | Japan | Schoolboy | Middle Class

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Takahata once again draws from his bottomless well of creativity.

Cast

Yukiji Asaoka	...	Matsuko (voice)
Toru Masuoka	...	Takashi (voice)
Masako Araki	...	Shige (voice)
Naomi Uno	...	Nonoko (voice)
Akiko Yano	...	Fujiwara (Nonoko's teacher) (voice)
Chocho Miyako	...	Kikuchibaba (voice)
Tamao Nakamura	...	Woman wearing glasses (voice)
Yasuko Tomita	...	Information clerk of department store (voice)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
James Belushi	...	Takashi (voice: English version)
Erin Chambers	...	Department Store Clerk (voice: English version)
Arata Furuta
Tress MacNeille	...	Shige (voice: English version)
Liliana Mumy	...	Nonoko (voice: English version)
Ashley Rose Orr	...	Additional voices
Jordan Orr	...	Additional voices
Trenton Rogers	...	Toshio, Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Daryl Sabara	...	Noboru (voice: English version)
Jeremy Shada	...	Other voices
Molly Shannon	...	Matsuko (voice: English version)
David Ogden Stiers	...	Narrator (voice: English version)
Matthew Underwood	...	Additional Voices

También conocida como:

My Neighbors the Yamadas (USA) (literal English title)
Mis vecinos los Yamada (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG for mild thematic elements.

Duración:

104 min

País:

Japan

Idioma:

French | Japanese | English

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Australia:G (original rating) | Australia:M | Ireland:PG | UK:PG | Australia:PG (TV rating) | South Korea:All | France:U | USA:PG

Company:

Buena Vista International

Trivialidades:

This is the first 100 percent digital movie created by Studio Ghibli. No traditional "cels" were used for this film.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs "Gekkô kamen" (1958)

Soundtrack:

Que Será, Será

Takahata once again draws from his bottomless well of creativity.

While Miyazaki is the best known (and most successful) of the non-demon-fixated/violent-porn anime directors, his sometime producing partner and fellow Studio Ghibli alumni easily equals him in breadth of vision, commitment to art and passionate filmmaking. And although it's Miyazaki who alone seems to possess the Midas touch of his uniquely innocent, melancholic, optimistic, whimsical sensibility, Takahata has arguably pushed the envelope further back in terms of Japan's commercial animation vocabulary. Witness the neo-realism of Grave Of The Fireflies, fearless indictment of globalisation in Pon Poko, and now this utterly charming adaptation of the popular manga, My Neighbours The Yamadas, rendered in a style new to Anime features, but utterly faithful to the original text.

A series of vignettes rather than one overall plot, it is nevertheless easy to find the running time flying past you as you take in the idiosyncratic characters, semi-bizarre situations (although a moment's thought reveals that your family was probably just like this), and beautiful performances (from animators and voice artists alike), finishing with a sense of the family's strength as a unit through a love for each other that's expressed more through their tolerance of each other's peculiarities than in open declarations of affection. And like Grave Of The Fireflies and Whisper Of The Heart, a popular western song that no one of my generation (20s) would ever dream of listening to seriously is made poignant, rousing and brimming with emotion.

Ten out of ten: films this good are rare.