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My Neighbors the Yamadas
The film is a series of vignettes following the daily lives of the Yamada family. With tales that range from the humourous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems and joys in their own way.
24 September 1979, Portland, Oregon, USA
July 6, 1920 in Tokyo, Japan
23 April 1990, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA
16 April 1952, Detroit, Michigan, USA
2 October 1962, Houston, Texas, USA
23 July 1935, Tokyo, Japan
2 June 1942, Oklahoma, USA
13 February 1955, Tokyo, Japan
August 20, 2005
charming
January 11, 2012
Quirky animated comedy follows a family's ups and downs.
August 05, 2006
...the movie would be best served by a viewing in separate installments.
July 11, 2013
There's a crabby, gleeful spirit to the whole thing, carried along by animated bursts of imagination, snippets of haiku, and spirited song. Amid all the disgruntlement and dismay, there's a sweet we're-all-in-this-life-togetherness.
September 12, 2005
Fluffy as a French pastry and almost as cloyingly sweet.
June 10, 2010
For all that they are cartoons, the Yamadas never court buffoonery... In fact, it's surprisingly observational, based in the way that people honestly act and feel.
November 09, 2004
Unlike all other animated works from the celebrated Studio [Ghibli]
February 20, 2014
A deceptively slight film, imbuing into its simplistic animation style and sly humor an astounding level of philosophy
