The Secret World of Arrietty

Basic Information
The Secret World of Arrietty, released in Japan on July 17, 2010, Arrietty received very positive reviews, all of which praised the animation and music. It also became the highest grossing Japanese film at the Japanese box office for the year 2010, and is currently grossing over US$141 million worldwide. The film also won the Animation of the Year award at the 34th Japan Academy Prize award ceremony. Two English language versions of the film were produced, a British dub produced by Studio Canal which was released in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2011, and an American dub released by Walt Disney Pictures in North America on February 17, 2012.

Plot
( some spoilers follow) In Koganei, Tokyo, a boy named Shō arrives at the house his mother lived in as a child, to live with his great aunt, Sadako. When Shō leaves the car, he sees a cat trying to attack Arrietty, a Borrower, but leaves after being attacked by a crow. Shō discovers Arrietty just as she returns home. Later, Arrietty's father, Pod, takes his daughter above the floorboards to show her how he gets sugar. Their first stop is the kitchen, then they walk within a wall to reach a dollhouse in Shō's bedroom, to get tissue, but Arrietty then gets spotted by Shō and accidentally drops the sugar cube out of surprise and Shō begs her not to leave and even though Atietty hesitates, she still leaves.

The next day, Shō leaves the dropped sugar cube beside an underground air vent where he first saw Arrietty. Pod warns Arrietty not to take it because their existence must be kept secret from humans, but his daughter sneaks out to visit Shō in his bedroom. She drops the sugar cube he left on the floor and he detects that she is there. She tells Shō to leave her family alone and that they do not need his help. She does not show him what she looks like. On her return, Arrietty is intercepted by her father. Realizing they have been detected, Pod and his wife Homily decide that they must move out of the house. Shō learns from Sadako that some of his ancestors had seen Borrowers in this house, and they had the dollhouse made especially for the Borrowers, with working electric lights and ovens. The Borrowers had not been seen since, however, and the dollhouse stayed in Shō's room.