My Neighbors the Yamadas
Based on a wildly popular Japanese comic strip, master animator and studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata directs this loosely structured work about that wacky household, the Yamadas. The family consists of laid-back mother Matsuko, the businessman father Takashi, who has illusions of machismo, the acid-tongued grandmother Shige, the slacker teenaged son Noboru, the younger sister Nonoko, and Pochi, the misanthropic family dog. My Neighbors the Yamadas was chosen by The Museum of Modern Art in New York for its film collection, the first Japanese animated feature film to be so honored.
Mika Siltala
Therefore let me at the last sing praises to Takahata Isao, who lacks the international cachet of his illustrious partner Miyazaki Hayao, but whose work is of the greatest artistry and humanity, not just in the field of animation, but of cinema.
Timothy Brayton, Riverrun Productions
Original title: Ho-Hokekyo Tonari No Yamada Kun
Duration: 104 min
Dialogue: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Age limit: K7
