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CHIBI MARUKO CHAN -A BOY FROM ITALY-

By Jun TAKAGI

PONY CANYON INC - as SALES All rights, World

Animation - Completed 2015

“Chibi Maruko-chan” will star in a movie this winter!
Students from 5 different countries arrive in Maruko’s town.
Maruko and her classmates can barely contain their curiosity and their new friends are full of surprises.
A tale of friendship that transcends time and nationality. Bring your hankies!

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Animation
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Jun TAKAGI
- Writer(s)
- Momoko SAKURA
- Synopsis
- The children have come from 5 different countries. Maruko and her friends are thrown into a panic as these foreign children are to stay at their homes by the request of their friend Hanawa. Andrea, a boy from Italy, is to stay at Maruko’s home. Maruko and her friends have a good time with them at school and travelling outside their town to visit Osaka and Kyoto over the weekend. At first, Maruko is perplexed by Andrea’s active approach; yet, she comes to understand him once she learns why he came to Japan. At the festival they go together, both of them make a wish to meet again. Finally these happy days come to an end and they have to part…