Mai Mai Miracle
The girl with the magic hair (Japaneseマイマイ新子と千年の魔法, Maimai Shinko to Sennen no Maho, dt " Maimai Shinko and the millennia- old magic " ), and Mai Mai Miracle, is an anime studio Madhouse released in 2009 Shochiku. The German publisher Universum Film GmbH. The film was directed and wrote the screenplay Sunao Katabuchi, based on the autobiography Maimai Shinko by Nobuko Takagi.
Action
The nine -year-old Shinko lives in 1955 in the village Hōfu in Japan. Inspired by the stories of her grandfather Kotaro about the past of the place as the capital of the province of Suo in the Heian period they dreamed of back in time thousands of years ago. She believes that she can travel back through the magical powers of her hair vortex there. At that time there lived the brunette princess Nagiko Kiyohara, daughter of the governor Kiyohara no Motosuke. Shinko introduces himself how lonely must have been Nagiko in her palace to be and that they wanted a playmate. In parallel, meet in the presence of a new student, the shy Kiiko Shimazu from Tokyo, in their class. The daughter of a lone doctor lives in the new factory settlement. Both become friends and play together with Shinkos sister Mitsuko and the other children of the village. Red scraps of paper that casts Nagiko in the creek, diving as goldfish, with which the children play in a self- dammed lake, in the presence again. The slightly older Tatsuyoshi helps Shinko in retaliation for the suicide of his father - a police officer - and Kiiko it helps to find a goldfish that could be the rebirth of the goldfish, the latter had accidentally poisoned with perfume. In the other time level is Nagiko - this time in Kiikos dream - in the subordinates chifuru a secret girlfriend. At the end draws Shinko after her grandfather died and her family to the Father according to Yamaguchi.
Background
The film premiered 15 August 2009 at the 62nd International Film Festival of Locarno.
Kodomo no Sekai (こども の せかい) of Kotringo is played during the end credits.
The historical part of the film is based in part on the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon.
A stylistic feature of the film is that the sequences Shinko imagines, be initiated by children's drawings.
Synchronization
Reception
" Mai Mai Miracle is the perfect realization of the literary text, Maimai Shinko ' (2004) by Nobuko Takagi [ ... ]. "
" Lovingly animated and profound story about a childhood between joy and sorrow. Conclusion: Bitter Sweet Anime in beautiful images. "
" Director Sunao Katabuchi (, Black Lagoon ') depicts the growth in a time of change that brings painful events with it, from the perspective of children and draws on innovative techniques and unusual perspectives for the design of his wonderful animated film. "
" Sunao Katabuchi [ ... ] succeeds in his anime after the autobiographical novel by Nobuko Takagie with a very good feel for the atmosphere of friendship and the power of the imagination to tell. However, his film does not follow a major story arc, but rather short episodes lined up next to each other. [ ... ] The little moments, the scenes [ ... ] bring the relevant themes with poetic imagery, to the point and let the two friends are familiar and alive. Downright masterfully binds Katabuchi also serious issues such as loss, death and farewell one. [ ... ] "
Awards
The film was nominated film for the fourth Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature.
He's got the Audience Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Feature BETV Award for the Anima Animation Festival in Brussels won in 2010.
He has also won the Best Animated Feature Film Prize at the Fantasia Film Festival 2010 in Montreal.
The film also won the Excellence Prize for Feature Length Animation at the Japan Media Arts Festival 2010.