Looking for a Home (やどさがし, Yadosagashi) (also known as House-hunting) was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki for Studio Ghibli.^[1] The short film originally released on January 3, 2006, and is shown only in the Saturn Theater at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Japan. The short is 12 minutes long.

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Looking for a Home
Directed by	Hayao Miyazaki
Written by	Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by	Toshio Suzuki
Starring	Akiko Yano Tamori
Cinematography	Atsushi Okui
Edited by	Takeshi Seyama
Production company	Studio Ghibli
Distributed by	Ghibli Museum
Release date	January 2006
Running time	12 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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Fuki sets out with a big rucksack in high spirits on a journey to look for a new house. Along her way, Fuki encounters and befriends numerous manifestations of the natural world, from fish to insects to a kami who resembled Totoro. All the sound effects in this film were done by human voice. This short film contains little to no spoken Japanese, and the story is conveyed almost entirely through art and sound effects. Sound is also depicted on screen as animated writing. The original story and screenplay were written by Hayao Miyazaki.