The life and misadventures of a family in contemporary Japan.
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.

"My neighbors the Yamadas is the story of the Yamada family , the traditional Japanese family with an extraordinary life : the father of the white-collar workers , do housewife mother as the grandmother of the elders , the children are brother and sister of two . So hundreds of thousands of ordinary families living ordinary lives , constitutes the entire society . But if you look carefully to discover , from the countless warm, joy, sorrow and pain . Understand the true meaning of life from a little story . The theme of the story : the safety of members of the happiness, the desire of each family of the world . The original form of a four -frame comic strip adapted into a long-winded of course is impossible , coupled with the original kind of " crooked " painting style, to the adaptation of animation Ghibli a major challenge ! Takahata , after all , masters , Ghibli 's ability can not be ignored , animation, rendering in front of us both faithful to the original work that reflects the " crooked " style , but it can be seen , the animators did above spent than generally fine depicted in the animation hard work . Long time still images , like a lot of cut corners film which large numbers of simple translation of this phenomenon will not appear ! And you can see all the places are moving , even crooked style 3D scenes - this is the theatrical power of animation !