When Marnie Was There (2014)

79% User Rating

1h 43min

"Promise we'll remain a secret, forever."

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.

Hiromasa YonebayashiDirector

Cast

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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)

Yuhko Kaida

Marnie's Mother (voice)

Renge Ishiyama

Emily (voice)

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Ewa Wiman

Rating 100%

April 18, 2015

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 Anna. Anna feels real connection to this girl. During the film we learn more and more about Anna and this young girl. It is a film that is both beautiful very well worth seeing.