| Release Date: | Jul 1999 |
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| Genres: | Animation / Comedy / Family |
| Runtime: | 104 min |
| Cast: | Toru Masuoka (Takashi (voice: Japanese Version)), Yukiji Asaoka (Matsuko (voice: Japanese Version)), Masako Araki (Shige (voice: Japanese Version)) Naomi Uno (Nonoko) Akiko Yano (Fujiwara (Nonoko's teacher) (voice:...) Chocho Miyako (Kikuchibaba (voice: Japanese Version)) Tamao Nakamura (Woman wearing glasses (voice:...) Yasuko Tomita (Information clerk of department store...) Arata Furuta ((voice: Japanese Version)) James Belushi (Takashi (voice: English version)) Jeff Bennett (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Alex Buck (Additional Voices (voice: English...) A.J. Buckley (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Dixie Carter (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Erin Chambers (Department Store Clerk (voice:...) Maree Cheatham (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Flo Di Re (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Melissa Disney (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Suguru Egawa ((voice: Japanese version)) Amber Hood (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Tress MacNeille (Shige (voice: English version)) Edie McClurg (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Jim Meskimen (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Jon Miller (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Liliana Mumy (Nonoko) Jordan Orr (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Trenton Rogers (Toshio) Ashley Rose (Additional Voices (voice) (as Ashley...) Daryl Sabara (Noboru) Jeremy Shada (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Molly Shannon (Matsuko (voice: English version)) David Ogden Stiers (Narrator (voice: English version)) Matthew Underwood (Additional Voices (voice: English...) Billy West (Additional Voices (voice: English...) |
The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. 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.
