The story takes place in 2010 in western Tokyo's neighborhood of Koganei. Koganei is also where Studio Ghibli is located.
In the Borrowers' home, they have three cups with playing card symbols (heart, diamond, and club). The only symbol they do not have is the spade, which in many cultures is considered to be bad luck.
At thirty-six-years-old, Hiromasa Yonebayashi was the youngest person to direct a movie for Studio Ghibli.
French singer Cécile Corbel, a big fan of Studio Ghibli's movies, had sent the studio her second album as a gift back in 2009. Producer Toshio Suzuki listened to it, was seduced, and thus decided to hire her to compose the score.
Seven million five hundred thousand people saw this movie in theaters, an all-time record in Japan for a movie with a first time director.
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