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My Neighbors the Yamadas (movie)

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Alternative title:
A Família Yamada (Portuguese)
A Yamada család
Houhokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun (Japanese)
I miei vicini Yamada (Italian)
Meine Nachbarn die Yamadas (German)
Mes voisins les Yamadas (French)
Mis vecinos los Yamada (Spanish)
Mis vecinos los Yamadas (Spanish)
Rodzina Yamadów (Polish)
Мои соседи Ямада (Russian)
ホーホケキョとなりの山田くん (Japanese)
隔壁的山田君 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: family
Objectionable content: None
Plot Summary: My Neighbors the Yamadas uses a distinctive animation style to tell a series of vignettes about the title family. These vignettes vary from leaving the young girl behind at the mall to the father confronting a motorcycle gang for disturbing the peace. The "real" story is often interrupted by metaphorical interludes, featuring the husband and wife navigating the ship of their family through the sea of life to the father becoming a superhero to chase down the aforementioned delinquents. The film is a feel-good family drama that expresses various themes about living with fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, daughters and sons, and brothers and sisters. And sharp grandmas.
User Ratings: 606 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 43 votes (sub:27, dub:14, others:2
1 French dubbed
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Excellent: 106 votes (sub:82, dub:16, raw:2, ?:1, others:5
3 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Very good: 158 votes (sub:109, dub:35, raw:2, ?:1, others:11
3 Spanish subtitled
3 French subtitled
1 German dubbed
1 Polish dubbed
1 Russian dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
)
 Good: 154 votes (sub:104, dub:37, others:13
5 Spanish subtitled
2 German dubbed
1 Russian edited dub
1 Russian dubbed
1 French dubbed
1 Spanish edited dub
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
)
 Decent: 66 votes (sub:40, dub:22, others:4
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
1 Polish edited dub
1 German subtitled
)
 So-so: 42 votes (sub:29, dub:9, raw:1, others:3
1 Polish subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Not really good: 12 votes (sub:9, dub:3)
 Weak: 13 votes (sub:8, dub:4, raw:1)
 Bad: 5 votes (dub:3, sub:2)
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:3, raw:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 947 users, rank: #1286 (of 9581)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.313 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.7653, rank: #2524 (of 9703)
Weighted mean: 7.271 (Good+), rank: #2483 (of 9703) (seen all: 7.31 / seen some: 6.46 / won't finish: 4.42)
Bayesian estimate: 7.276 (Good+), rank: #2225 (of 7286)
Running time: 104 minutes
Production cost: ¥2,360,000,000
Vintage:
1999
2016-02-03 (Señal Colombia - Colombia)
Premiere date:
1999-08-17 (Japan, Opened on 245 screens)
2001-01-20 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
Release dates: We have 7
Ending Theme:
"Hitoribocchi ha Yameta" (Quit being alone) by Yano Akiko
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 1
Comment:
Rated PG in the US "for mild thematic elements" by the MPAA.
Reviews:
News: Show:
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Ghibli Releases (May 8, 2005)
More Ghibli in November (Apr 24, 2004)
Isao Takahata in LA (Apr 14, 2004)
Ghibli Releases (Apr 22, 2002)
Ghibli Hiring (Jul 6, 1999)
Miyazaki festival in NYC (Jun 24, 1999)
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Blu-ray (Region B)
    My Neighbors the Yamadas (Blu-ray) 2011-04-20
Blu-ray + DVD combo
    My Neighbors the Yamadas (BD+DVD) 2018-01-16 (from $17.99)
DVD (Region 1)
    My Neighbors the Yamadas (DVD) 2005-08-16 (from $22.95)
    My Neighbors the Yamadas (DVD) 2018-01-16 (from $15.94)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Isao Takahata
Screenplay: Isao Takahata
Music: Akiko Yano
Original story: Hisaichi Ishii
Character Design: Kenichi Konishi
Animation Director: Kenichi Konishi
Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui
Executive producer:
Michael O. Johnson (Buena Vista)
Seiichiro Ujiie
Takashi Tōkairin
Producer: Toshio Suzuki

Additional Sound Effects:
Kazuyuki Okumura
Masatoshi Toyoshima (Auto Shop Toyoshima)
You Sasaki
Advance Work: Masayuki Miyaji
Advertising Producer:
Chihiro Tsukue (Major)
Fumiyo Sasada (Major)
Hiroi Hosokawa (Major)
Hiroyuki Orihara (Major)
Keisuke Iida (Shochiku)
Masaru Tsuchiya (Major)
Masaya Tokuyama (special adviser)
Michiyo Koyanagi (Major)
Mieko Hara (Major)
Morikazu Wakizaka (Major)
Naoto Okamura (Major)
Nozomi Fukuda (Major)
Toshihiko Murai
Yoshihiro Iwasaki (Shochiku)
Assistant Art Director: Noboru Yoshida
Assistant producer: Daisuke Kadoya
AVID Editor: Toshihiko Kojima
Casting:
Motohiro Hatanaka (Pug Point)
Murasaki Miyauchi (Pug Point)
Ryuuji Usui (Pug Point)
Yasuyo Toyota (Pug Point)
CD Production: Kentarou Matsumoto
Chief Executive Producer: Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Chief Production Manager:
Koji Hoshino
Naoya Fujimaki
Seiji Okuda
Color Assistant: Kanako Moriya
Color Director: Michiyo Yasuda
Dialogue Recording:
Akio Takahashi (Omnibus Japan Sanpuzaka Studio)
Chifumi Karasawa (MIT Studio)
Masahiro Fukuhara (MIT Studio)
Mineo Kasuga (Sanwa Recording Studio)
Mitsuharu Kanei (Avaco Creative Studio)
Yuki Ikeda (Omnibus Japan Sanbuzaka Studio)
Digital Film I/O: Hideo Tsuji
Digital Paint:
Akihiro Oyama
Akiko Nasu (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio)
Fumiko Oda
Hiroaki Ishii
Hiroko Shimazu (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio)
Kanako Takahashi (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio)
Kazuko Yamada
Kumi Nanjo (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio)
Masayo Iseki
Megumi Ishido (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio)
Naomi Atsuta
Naomi Mori
Rie Okada
Ryou Sugino
Ryuuichirou Taira (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio)
Yukie Nomura
Yukiko Kakita (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio)
Yumiko Takahashi (Takahashi Production/T2 Studio)
Yumiko Ukai
Editing: Takeshi Seyama
Erhu Performance: Peng-Fang Jia
Film Coordination: Yoshiro Nishio
Film Preview Production: Keiichi Itagaki (Gull Enterprises)
Insert Song Performance:
Akiko Yano ("Denwa-sen")
Hayato Isobata ("Que sera, sera")
Hiroko Ikuta ("Inu no O-Mawari-san")
Hiroshi Itsuki ("Sasame-Yuki")
King Kobato-Kai ("Gekkou Kamen wa Dare Deshou")
Masako Araki ("Que sera, sera")
Naomi Uno ("Que sera, sera")
Tōru Masuoka ("Que sera, sera")
Yoshiko Kondo ("Gekkou Kamen wa Dare Deshou")
Yukiji Asaoka ("Que sera, sera")
Lab Coordination: Takehisa Kawamata
Merchandising Development:
Koichi Asano
Tomomi Imai
Music Mixing: Eihiko Ohno
Music Orchestration: Neko Saito
Music producer:
Jun Nagata (New Friends)
Kazumi Inaki
Optical: Shin Nakamura
Orchestra Conductor:
Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi (Hungarian Philharmonic)
Mario Clemens (Czech Philharmonic)
Overseas Promotion Manager:
Haruyo Moriyoshi
Mikiko Takeda
Stephen Albert
Piano Performance: Masako Ezaki (J.S. Bach & Chopin)
Production: Hayao Miyazaki
Production Chief: Toshiyuki Kawabata
Production Committee:
Akio Ichimura (Studio Ghibli)
Eiko Fujitsu (Studio Ghibli)
Hajime Akimoto (Tokuma Shoten)
Hiroshi Morie (Hakuhodo)
Jin Totani (NTV)
Junko Itō (Tokuma Shoten)
Kazuaki Itō (NTV)
Kazuhiro Yamamoto (Hakuhodo)
Kiyoshi Ono (Hakuhodo)
Masataka Murata (Studio Ghibli)
Sanae Mitsugi (Tokuma Shoten)
Shinpei Fukushima (NTV)
Shogo Komagata (Studio Ghibli)
Taisei Ishisako (Studio Ghibli)
Takashi Koike (Hakuhodo)
Tomoki Horaguchi (Studio Ghibli)
Tomoko Kamiya (NTV)
Toshio Hagiwara (NTV)
Yasutaka Ootsuka (Hakuhodo)
Yoshio Yasunaga (Hakuhodo)
Production manager: Nozomu Takahashi
Re-recording: Kōji Fukushima
Recording:
Hajime Takagi (TV Tokyo Center)
Minoru Koike (TV Tokyo Center)
Recording engineer:
Dave O'Donnelle (New York session)
Eiji Uchinuma (Tokyo session)
Kinji Yoshino (Tokyo session)
Tomoyoshi Ezaki (Prague session)
Toshihiro Masuda (Tokyo session)
Recording Production: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
Sound Effects: Michihiro Itō
Sound Mixing: Shuji Inoue
Sound Recording Producer: Tadayuki Nukazuka (Omnibus Production)
Special Effects:
Keiko Itogawa
Kunji Tanifuji
SR-D Re-Recording: Noboru Nishio
Subtitle Timing: Hiroaki Hirabayashi
Supervision: Akio Ohmori
Theme Song Arrangement:
Akiko Yano
Jeff Bova
Theme Song Composition: Akiko Yano
Theme Song Performance: Akiko Yano
Theme Song Producer:
Akiko Yano
Jeff Bova
Title Logo: Hisaichi Ishii
Titles:
Kaoru Mano
Masako Ogami (Marin Post)
Hayato Isobata as Noboru
Masako Araki as Shige
Naomi Uno as Nonoko
Tōru Masuoka as Takashi
Yukiji Asaoka as Matsuko

Akiko Yano as Fujiwara-Sensei
Kosanji Yanagiya as Haiku Reader
Miyako Chouchou as Special Appearance
Tamao Nakamura as Special Appearance

Akira Matsuda as Ghibli cheering section
Arata Furuta as Ghibli cheering section
Haruki Tsuji as Ghibli cheering section
Hideaki Yoshino as Ghibli cheering section
Jun Yamanishi as Ghibli cheering section
Junpei Mano as Ghibli cheering section
Kazuhiro Shindou as Ghibli cheering section
Michiko Nishida as Ghibli cheering section
Minori Ohnishi as Ghibli cheering section
Miyuki Kawamoto as Ghibli cheering section
Mizuho Tsushima as Ghibli cheering section
Rie Tanaka as Ghibli cheering section
Sadanobu Terashita as Ghibli cheering section
Satoru Saito as Ghibli cheering section
Shouichi Furutashima as Ghibli cheering section
Takumi Kanazawa as Ghibli cheering section
Yasuko Tomita as Ghibli cheering section
Yoshiko Fujiyama as Ghibli cheering section
Yousuke Inaba as Ghibli cheering section
Yūki Itō as Ghibli cheering section
Yuuta Komatsuzaki as Ghibli cheering section

Japanese companies
Casting: Pug Point
Film Developing: Imagica
Film Preview Production: Gull Enterprises, Inc.
Music Production:
New Friends
Studio Ghibli
Production Studio: Studio Ghibli
Recording: Tokyo TV Center
Recording Production: Omnibus Promotion
Recording Studio:
AVACO Creative Studios (Tokyo session)
Avatar Studios (New York session)
Bovaland (New York session)
Dvorak Hall (Prague session)
Sound Inn Studios (Tokyo session)
Soundtrack CD Production: Tokuma Japan Communications
English cast
English staff
Translation: Jim Hubbert
Executive producer: Rick Dempsey
Producer: Ned Lott

Adaptation:
Eric Garcia
Leo Chu
Casting: Ned Lott
Voice Direction:
Ned Lott
Rick Dempsey
Daryl Sabara as Noboru
Jim Belushi as Takashi
Liliana Mumy as Nonoko
Molly Shannon as Matsuko
Tress MacNeille as Shige

David Ogden Stiers as Narrator

Akira Matsuda as Ghibli Booster
Amber Hood as Shop Girl
Arata Furuta as Ghibli Booster
Atsushi Yamanishi as Ghibli Booster
Erin Chambers as Department Store Clerk
Haruki Tsuji as Ghibli Booster
Hideaki Yoshino as Ghibli Booster
Junpei Mano as Ghibli Booster
Kazuhiro Shindou as Ghibli Booster
Minori Ohnishi as Ghibli Booster
Miyoko Nishida as Ghibli Booster
Miyuki Kawamoto as Ghibli Booster
Mizuho Tsushima as Ghibli Booster
Rie Tanaka as Ghibli Booster
Sadanobu Terashita as Ghibli Booster
Satoru Saito as Ghibli Booster
Shoichi Kotajima as Ghibli Booster
Takumi Kanazawa as Ghibli Booster
Yasuko Tomita as Ghibli Booster
Yoshiko Fujiyama as Ghibli Booster
Yousuke Inaba as Ghibli Booster
Yūki Itō as Ghibli Booster
Yuuta Komatsuzaki as Ghibli Booster

English companies
Distributor:
GKIDS
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
Optimum Releasing (UK)
Shout! Factory (2018)
Internet Streaming:
HBO Max (USA)
Netflix (Worldwide, excl. USA and Japan)
French staff
French cast
ADR Director: Philippe Carbonnier
Dubbing Director: Jean-Marc Pannetier (new dub)

Adaptation:
Jean-Marc Pannetier (new dub)
Marion Bessay
Mixing: Simon Follain (new dub)
Clara Quilichini as Nonoko (new dub)
Colette Venhard as Shige
Elisabeth Wiener as Shige (new dub)
Laura Préjean as Nonoko
Marie Vincent as Matsuko (new dub)
Maxime Nivet as Noboru (new dub)
Nicolas Marié as Takashi
Raymond Acquaviva as Takashi (new dub)
Tony Marot as Noboru

Bernard Alane as Le narrateur
Gabriel Bismuth-Bienaimé as Garçon à la batte (new dub)
Jérome Keen as
commentateur de base-ball
Le chauffeur de bus
Joel Zaffarano as Le motard
Patrick Floersheim as Narrateur-haïku (new dub)
Philippe Valmont as
Le facteur
le policier
Tanaka
Sylvain Lemarié as
l'épicier
Le vendeur de fleur

Alice Orsat (new dub)
Ambre Foubert (new dub)
Anneliese de Vitis (new dub)
Bradley Foubert (new dub)
Christian Peythieu (new dub)
Claude Lesko (new dub)
Emma Alesi (new dub)
Gilles Morvan (new dub)
Jacqueline Cohen (new dub)
Julien Meunier (new dub)
Laurent Larcher (new dub)
Léa Dauvergne (new dub)
Lila Tamzit (new dub)
Maïté Monceau (new dub)
Max Aulivier (new dub)
Nathalie Duverne (new dub)
Nicole Favart (new dub)
Perette Pradier (new dub)
Pierre Casanova (new dub)
Sofiane Larcher (new dub)
Thomas Sagols (new dub)
French companies
ADR Production: Dôme Production
Broadcaster:
Arte (from 8 June 2005)
Ciné Cinema Famiz (from January 2009)
Orange Ciné Happy (from September 2010)
TPS Cineculte (from June 2006)
Distributor: TF1 Vidéo
Dubbing: Dubbing Brothers (new dub)
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
Executive producer: Hilel Chelminsky (Zima Entertainment)

Subtitle Translation: María Ramírez Morales (Netflix; Spain)
Broadcaster:
Canal CinemaPlus (Latin America)
Canal MAX (Latin America)
Canal UCR
Canal+ Xtra (Spain)
Cinema + (Colombia)
Señal Colombia (Colombia)
Distributor:
Babilla Ciné (Colombia; DVD and Blu-ray)
Dubbing Studio: Domusic TV (Spain dub)
DVD Distribution:
Babilla Ciné (Colombia)
Zima Entertainment (Mexico)
Internet Streaming:
Netflix
Señal Colombia (Colombia)
Licensed by:
Aurum Producciones (Spain)
Zima Entertainment (Mexico)
Spanish cast
Alazne Erdozia as Shige (Spain dub)
Azucena Martinez as Nonoko
Clemen Larumbe as Shige
Héctor Rocha as Noburo
José María Regalado as Takashi (Spain dub)
Josu Cubero as Noboru (Spain dub)
Patricia Mainou as Matsuko
Pilar Ferrero as Matsuko (Spain dub)
Rosa Romay as Nonoko (Spain dub)

Adriana Rodriguez as Auntie
Desiree Sandoval as
Fujiwara-sensei
Noboru's classmate
Marisol Castro as
Radio singer
Toshio Kimura
Txemi del Olmo as Narrator (Spain dub)
Italian cast
Italian staff
Dubbing Director: Gualtiero Cannarsi
Translation: Elisa Nardoni

Dialogues: Gualtiero Cannarsi
Dubbing Assistant: Sabina Razzi
Dubbing Engineer: Walter Mannina
Mixing: Andrea Pochini
Italian companies
Distributor: Lucky Red
Dubbing: SEFIT-CDC
German staff
German cast
(none)
Gerd Meyer as Takashi
Kathrin Simon as Matsuko
Maddalena Kerrh as Shige
Patrick Roche as Noboru
Paulina Bohlmann as Nonoko

Claus Brockmeyer as Narrator
German companies
Polish staff
Polish cast
Dubbing Director: Maria Brzostyńska

Dialogues: Dariusz Kosmowski
Production manager: Julian Osławski
Anna Sztejner as Shige Yamada
Antonina Żbikowska as Nonoko Yamada
Barbara Zielińska as Granny
Iwo Wiciński as Noboru Yamada
Lucyna Malec as Matsuko Yamada
Wojciech Chorąży as Takashi Yamada

Joanna Domanska as
Kikuchi
Miss Fujiwara
Shige's Friend
Toshio Kimura
Woman
Julita Kozuszek-Borsuk as
Miss Kimura
Shoplady
Tanaka
Teacher
Maciej Falana as
Deliveryman
Yamashita
Mateusz Narloch as
Driver
Nakamura
Neighbour
Policeman
Tomasz Kozłowicz as
Announcer
Bellwether
Comentator
Saburo
Polish companies
Distributor: Monolith Films
Dubbing Studio: BTI Studios
Internet Streaming: Netflix
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Broadcaster: Canal MAX (Brazil-subtituled)
Distributor: Outsider Films (Portugal)
Portuguese cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Distributor: Deltamac Co., Ltd.
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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