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My Neighbors the Yamadas
1999
· Movie
· 104 min
B
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #295
- IMDb #280
- Rotten Tomatoes #256
- Metacritic #146
- Letterboxd #268
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #251
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- Metacritic Audience #212
- Criticker #111
- Kinopoisk #131
- AlloCiné #277
- Trakt #389
Every rating
55–92
out of 100
A series of vignettes depict the everyday life of the Yamada family: a forgetfather, a pragmatic mother, a rebellious grandmother, a shy son, and a young daughter. Through short, humorous slices of life, the film captures the universal trials and tribulations of modern family life, from mundane chores and parental worries to small moments of tenderness and triumph, all rendered in a simple, watercolor-style animation.
Details
- Director
- Isao Takahata
- Writer
- Isao Takahata
- Based on
- Nono-chan
- Released
- 17 July 1999
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $15.3M
- Box office
- $11.9M
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