When Marnie Was There
思い出のマーニー
"Promise we'll remain a secret, forever."
AnimationDramaFamilyMystery
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
🎬 DirectorHiromasa Yonebayashi
📅 Release2014-07-19
🌍 CountryJapan
🗣 LanguageJapanese
🏢 StudioStudio Ghibli, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, KDDI
🗳 Votes1,921
🔥 Popularity3
💵 Revenue$34,949,567
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🎭 Cast
Sara Takatsuki
Anna Sasaki (voice)
Kasumi Arimura
Marnie (voice)
Nanako Matsushima
Yoriko Sasaki (voice)
Susumu Terajima
Kiyomasa Oiwa (voice)
Toshie Negishi
Setsu Oiwa (voice)
Ryoko Moriyama
Elderly Lady (voice)
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Nanny (voice)
Hitomi Kuroki
Hisako (voice)
Hiroyuki Morisaki
Art Teacher (voice)
Takuma Otoo
Neighborhood Association Officer (voice)
Hana Sugisaki
Sayaka (voice)
Bari Suzuki
Elderly Lady 2 (voice)
Shigeyuki Totsugi
Marnie's Father (voice)
Ken Yasuda
Toichi (voice)
Yo Oizumi
Dr. Yamashita (voice)
🎥 Crew
Line ProducerTamaki Kojo
ScreenplayMasashi Ando
ScreenplayKeiko Niwa
NovelJoan G. Robinson
ScreenplayHiromasa Yonebayashi
DirectorHiromasa Yonebayashi
Background DesignerShiho Sato
Animation DirectorMasashi Ando
ProducerKoji Hoshino
ProducerYoshiaki Nishimura
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🏷 Keywords
friendshipbased on novel or bookimaginary friendflashbackphotographcalmanimepersonal diarypsychological
💬 Reviews
This is a very beautiful animated film from Studio Ghibli, possibly the last one to com out of Studioe Ghibli for some time or last one ever. It is about Anna, a young girl that we learn has asthma and is feeling very alone. She is sent to relatives in the country to recuperate from severe sickness. Once there she meets another young girl, who is blond and also has beautiful blue eyes like A…
> Some people're destined to meet the secret friend. From the director Hiromasa Yonebayashi of 'The Secret World of Arriety' fame. Based on the 1967 English novel of the same name and so the important characters borrowed the western names. This is what I call a fine adaptation, great transformation from the words to the motion picture. Actually, it suited for the narration from the standpoint o…
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