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deceptively simple surface of childhood." On the large scale, Katabuchi's film depicts Japan of the '50s, "caught between an imperial past of rigid class distinction and its Western-influenced, caste-loose future," and it presents "two sides of an ambivalent East/West fusion, conveyed with surprising clarity." And on the personal level, we find that nothing is cast in stone forever, as real-life events affect the main characters right up to the end. Those events seem "both surprising and inevitable". In the end, we as viewers learn that life goes on, just as in the real world, which in the case of this film happens to be the booming economy of Japan, ten years after a world war and a thousand years after the Heian era.
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gives up at the sight of the grief ravaged woman and breaks down when remembering his father. At the same time, Kiiko goes back in time and becomes Princess Nagiko, and is able to help a local girl and befriend her. Tatsuyoshi and Shinko return home, with Tatsuyoshi announcing that he is moving away the following day. He vows to be a good father one day, with Shinko advising him to have as much fun as he can before becoming an adult.
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parts of adult life opens up new discoveries for the kids in the form of "tragedy but also accommodation." And the children realise that "good and evil are not so comfortingly distinct." With this added perspective, Katabuchi's storytelling skills enable him "to layer an aura of postwar disillusionment without disturbing the pic's well-sustained innocent tone."
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Shortly afterward, Tatsuyoshi's father, a police officer, hangs himself after gambling away a neighbor's money with a woman. Shinko and Tatsuyoshi go off late at night to find the woman and punish her, ending up in the village's dark side riddled with crime. Tatsuyoshi attempts to hit the woman, but
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Shinko and Kiiko spend a bit more time imagining the past and learning about the village with Shinko's grandfather. At the end of the winter, Shinko's grandfather passes away, and Shinko moves away to the city with her family to be closer to her father's university. In the distance, Princess Nagiko
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review and independent film reviewer Chris Knipp elaborated upon the fact that this "children's story" has a darker side, that is cleverly mixed in to bring a realistic perspective. "Shadowing this enchanted cross-temporal childhood ether is a half-glimpsed adult world," where the dark and complex
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and its capital Kokuga. Shinko claims that her ability to see the past is a gift from the single cowlick on her forehead, which she calls her “mai mai”. Shinko invites Kiiko Shimazu, a new student who has recently transferred to her school, with her to her vivid imaginings of the past. Despite the
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said, "Both films chronicle childhood adventures and the "magic" that resides in this naive outlook. In the former film, nature becomes fantastic; in this film it is the story that resides beneath the surface that has a life of its own as it is so aptly represented using animation." San Francisco
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Along with the local village boys, Shinko and Kiiko form a group known as the Destiny Squad, whose leader is 14 year-old Tatsuyoshi. The group explores the village, including building a dam for a fish in the creek, which seemingly represents their bond and hopes for the future. At the same time,
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review appreciated on the director's complex cross-cutting technique, when presenting two worlds a thousand years apart. In the film, the princess of the Heian era, "a girl their age whose face they cannot yet visualize, remains isolated in her parallel universe as Katabuchi inventively leaps
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launched the Kickstarter campaign for the film on February 6, until March 7, 2014, the campaign has set a US$ 30,000 goal for an English-subtitled release of the film in the United States and United Kingdom. As of February 6, 2014, 11:00 a.m. ET, the campaign has raised over $ 33,700. On
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Besides this, the films has had various international festival screenings, including France's Val-de-Marne/Paris (February 2010), Brussels, Belgium (February 2010), Edinburgh, UK (June 2010), San Francisco, USA (2010), Montréal, Canada (July 2010), and (during the summer of 2011) Melbourne,
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nor the screenplay talks down to anybody, even though the playfulness and the ability to laugh are never lost." Chris Knipp thought the most appealing and fascinating about the film was "the way it oscillates between the real and the imaginary, the upbeat and the sad, while maintaining the
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Shinko dreams one night that the Princess Nagiko is barred from friendship with the village girls. The next morning, the fish they built the dam for is found dead in the creek. The Destiny Squad vows that tomorrow will be a better day, one in which they all laugh.
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which is based in Glasgow, UK, initiated the Kickstarter project to fund the DVD and/or Blu-ray release of Mai Mai Miracle in English subtitle and/or English dub in US and UK. Initial goal was $ 30,000, and the project was successfully funded with $ 107,153.
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on August 15, 2009. It was released in Japan on November 21, and ultimately had a rare seven-month run at the cinemas. Following 2010, though, it ended up in the category of films receiving a box office receipt of less than 300 million
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girls' quite different characters – Shinko is an outgoing, exuberant tomboy, while the shy and city-raised Kiiko still mourns her deceased mother – they get along surprisingly well and end up learning from each other's differences.
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Shinko's opening up to the realities of life comes both as a shock and a disappointment, but it also causes her to "realize that her magic may not be real." Through the depth of this story-telling, neither
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Shochiku promoted the film online, aiming at international as well as domestic fans. A short English-subtitled trailer was posted on the studio's website in June. Additionally,
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Reserved 3rd grade girl and new classmate to Shinko. She moved to the area with her father (from Tokyo) and in the film starts out mourning the loss of her mother.
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Shinko's little sister, she suffers at times from her older sister's careless handling of things. She has just as strong of a personality though, and likes cats.
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In Lille, France in November 2007 Katabuchi showed extracts of the film without naming it. The film was announced by Madhouse at the 2008
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The story revolves around a 3rd grade schoolgirl, living with her parents and little sister in the countryside of 1950s Japan. Thus
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The film opened on the December 11–13 weekend in South Korea, where it debuted in 13th place and grossed the equivalent of
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Kotaro is Shinko's grandfather. He is also a major inspiration for Shinko with his stories about life in the past.
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February 24, 2014, the Ask me Anything session was announced by his director, and began on February 27, 2014.
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A 3rd grade girl with a strong will, imaginative and often unafraid of standing out through odd behaviour.
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Shinko's mother, generally clueless when it comes to dealing with Shinko's often unpredictable behaviour.
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timeframes." This ancient world at first only spring forward in the mind of Shinko, who believes her
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a recently built-up area, the "new residence" of the film, where Kiiko Shimazu lives with her father.
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in 2006. 50 years earlier this was a small, rural town, with a main street and not much more. In the
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International Animation Festival programmer Sean Uyehara said (interviewed by Elisabeth Bartlett of
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with Katabuchi. Shinichi Uehara, a veteran background painter at Madhouse, acted as art director.
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and her friend sit on a stone, enjoying the friendship that Shinko and Kiiko helped them create.
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The film has been released on DVD in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Germany (where it is called
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as a new project of director Sunao Katabuchi. While Katabuchi had served as a scriptwriter
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Shinko and Kiiko can “see” that Princess Nagiko is lonely and yearns for friendship.
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productions). Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau of the French-language online magazine
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year of 1955, rice paddies and wheat fields dominated the countryside. But there
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in Montréal, Canada. It also won the Excellence Award for animation in the 14th
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Info on Montréal's Fantasia Festival, including awards, from Anime News Network
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It's the spring of 1955 in Mitajiri (in the countryside around then small-town
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was released on August 28, followed by a 100-second trailer on September 16.
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won the 2010 Audience Award for the Best Animated Feature for adults at
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on August 15, 2009. The movie's plot is partially based on research on
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars
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served as animation directors. Both had previously worked on
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Shinko's father, who works at the University of Yamaguchi.
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In the film she's addressed to as "Hime" (i.e. Princess).
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Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film
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Sunao Katabuchi
Sunao Katabuchi
Nobuko Takagi
Yuichiro Saito
Mayuko Fukuda
Kotringo
Avex Entertainment
Shochiku
Madhouse
Yamaguchi Broadcasting
Shochiku
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animated
Nobuko Takagi
Madhouse
Shochiku
Sunao Katabuchi
Locarno International Film Festival
Switzerland
Sei Shōnagon
The Pillow Book

Hōfu
Hōfu
Yamaguchi Prefecture
province of Suō
Mayuko Fukuda
Nako Mizusawa
Keiichi Noda

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