Arrietty may not be as epic as other Ghibli movies, both in the literal and figurative sense, but its tiny world is so richly detailed that you could spend hours studying a single frame of the film. In Arrietty’s lovely house-underneath-a-house, stamps are hung on the walls like paintings, a flowerpot serves as the hearth, a tea canister is a cabinet, an olive a chair, a sewing pin a sword, a clothespin a hair tie, and so on. The possibilities are endless, but the film tries to exhaust them as much as it can. This alone makes Arrietty a delightful watch, but the simple story at the heart of it—one of survival, empathy, and faith—elevates into a timeless classic.

Apart from the creative rendering of everyday objects, I also can’t stop thinking about the UK dub cast of this movie. A young Saoirse Ronan voices Arrietty, pre-Spiderman Tom Holland voices Sho, and Olivia Colman and Mark Strong play Arrietty’s parents. If you’re gonna watch the English dub, choose this over the American, trust me.