The girl with the magic hair
| Anime movie | |
|---|---|
| title | The girl with the magic hair |
| Original title | マ イ マ イ 新 子 と 千年 の 魔法 |
| transcription | Maimai Shinko to Sennen no Mahō |
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| Country of production |
 Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| Studio | Madhouse |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sunao Katabuchi |
| script | Sunao Katabuchi |
| production |
Yoshito Takaya Tomohiko Iwase Miho Ichi Ryoichiro Matsuo |
| music |
Shūsei Murai Minako "mooki" Obata |
The girl with the magic hair ( Japanese マ イ マ イ 新 子 と 千年 の 魔法 Maimai Shinko to Sennen no Mahō , German 'Maimai Shinko and the millennia-old magic' ), also Mai Mai Miracle , is an anime of the Madhouse studio published in 2009 by Shōchiku . The German publisher is Universum Film GmbH . Sunao Katabuchi directed and scripted the film , based on the autobiography Maimai Shinko by Nobuko Takagi .
action
The nine-year-old Shinko lives in the village of Hōfu in Japan in 1955 . Inspired by the stories of her grandfather Kotarō about the past of the place as the capital of the Suō province in the Heian period , she dreams back to a thousand years ago. She believes that the magical powers of her hair swirl can put herself back there. At that time, Princess Nagiko Kiyohara, the daughter of the governor Kiyohara no Motosuke, lived there . Shinko imagines how lonely Nagiko must have been in her palace and how she wanted a playmate. At the same time, a new student, the shy Kiiko Shimazu from Tokyo, arrives in her class. The daughter of a single doctor lives in the new factory complex. They become friends and play with Shinko's sister Mitsuko and the other children in the village. Red scraps of paper that Nagiko throws into the stream reappear in the present as a goldfish that the children play with in a lake they have built themselves up. Shinko helps the slightly older Tatsuyoshi retaliate for the suicide of his father - a police officer - and Kiiko helps her find a goldfish that could be the reincarnation of the goldfish that she accidentally poisoned with perfume. In the other time level Nagiko finds - this time in Kiiko's dream - a secret friend in the subordinate Chifuru. In the end, after her grandfather dies, Shinko moves with her family to live with her father in Yamaguchi .
background
The film premiered on August 15, 2009 at the 62nd Locarno International Film Festival .
Kodomo no Sekai ( こ ど も の せ か い ) by Kotringo is played during the credits.
The historical part of the film is based in part on the pillow book by Sei Shōnagon .
A stylistic peculiarity of the film is that the sequences that Shinko thinks up are introduced by children's drawings.
synchronization
| role | Japanese voice actor ( seiyū ) | German voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Shinko Aoki | Mayuko Fukuda | Berfin-Rana Caska |
| Kiiko Shimazu | Nako Mizusawa | Johanna Hintze |
| Nagiko | Egg Morisako | Gundi Eberhard |
| Nagako Aoki | Manami Honjō | Soraya-Antoinette Richter |
| Mitsuko Aoki | Tamaki Matsumoto | Valentina Bonalana |
| Kotaro Aoki | Keiichi Noda | Uli Krohm |
| Tatsuyoshi Suzuki | Shoma Egami | Patrick Baehr |
reception
"'Mai Mai Miracle' is the perfect implementation of the literary template 'Maimai Shinko' (2004) by Nobuko Takagi [...]."
“Lovingly animated and profound story about a childhood between joy and sorrow. Conclusion: Bittersweet anime in beautiful pictures. "
“Director Sunao Katabuchi (' Black Lagoon ') describes growing up in a time of change, which also brings with it painful events, from the perspective of children and uses innovative techniques and unusual perspectives for the design of his wonderfully animated film. "
“Sunao Katabuchi [...] succeeds in his anime based on the autobiographical novel by Nobuko Takagie with a very good sense of atmosphere and tells of friendship and the power of fantasy. However, his film does not follow a large story arc, but rather strings short episodes next to one another. [...] The small moments, the individual scenes [...] bring the respective themes to the point with a poetic visual language and let the two friends become familiar and come to life. Katabuchi also integrates serious topics such as loss, death and parting in an almost masterly manner. [...] "
Awards
The film was nominated for the fourth Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film .
He won the Audience Award for Best Animated Feature and the BETV Award for Best Animated Feature at the Anima Trick Film Festival in Brussels 2010.
It also won the Best Animated Feature Film award at the Fantasia Film Festival 2010 in Montréal .
The film also won the Excellence Prize for Feature Length Animation at the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival .
Web links
- Mai Mai Miracle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official site for the film (Japanese)
- Page at Universum Film
- Page at Madhouse (Japanese)
- Trailer at Shōchiku (English)
- Entry on the Anime News Network (English)
- Meeting at JASMS
- List of characters at MyAnimeList.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ May May Miracle. Universe Film, accessed February 13, 2013 .
- Jump up ↑ Pokémon, Mai Mai Miracle and other events for young audiences . In: 62nd Locarno Film Festival . July 28, 2009. Retrieved June 19, 2012.
- ↑ kjk-muenchen.de
- ↑ cinema.de
- ↑ kino.de
- ↑ The girl with the magic hair . Top video news. Publisher: Children's and Youth Film Center on behalf of the BMFSFJ .
- ↑ The Awards Nominated Asia Pacific Screen Awards Best Animated Feature Film . Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Archived from the original on October 21, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
- ↑ Mai Mai Miracle, Yona Win at French, Belgian Fests . In: Anime News Network . March 2, 2010. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
- ^ Montreal Fantasia Festival Announces Animated Awards . In: Anime News Network . July 29, 2010. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
- ↑ ア ニ メ ー シ ョ ン 部門 優秀 賞 マ イ マ イ 新 子 と 千年 の 魔法 . In: 14th Japan Media Arts Festival . 2010. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved June 18, 2012.