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WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE

OMOIDE NO MARNIE

By Hiromasa YONEBAYASHI

WILD BUNCH - as DISTR

Animation - Completed 2014

A lonely little girl sent to live by the sea, discovers a magical friend in Marnie.
A Studio Ghibli film from the director of ARRIETTY.

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Animation
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 103 mn
- Director(s)
- Hiromasa YONEBAYASHI
- Writer(s)
- Keiko NIWA, Hiromasa YONEBAYASHI, Joan G. ROBINSON
- Cast
- Sara TAKATSUKI, Kasumi ARIMURA, Nanako MATSUSHIMA, Susumu TERAJIMA, Ryoko MORIYAMA, Kazuko YOSHIYUKI, Hitomi KUROKI
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-EB29-0000-L-0000-0000-B
- Producer(s)
- Toshio SUZUKI, Koji HOSHINO (STUDIO GHIBLI INC.)
- Synopsis
- Sent from her foster home in the city one summer to a sleepy town by the sea in Hokkaido, Anna dreams her days away
  among the marshes. She believes she’s outside the invisible magic circle to which most people belong – and shuts herself off from everyone around her, wearing her “ordinary face”. Anna never expected to meet a friend like Marnie, who does not judge her for being just what she is. But no sooner has Anna learned the loveliness of friendship than she begins to wonder about her new found friend…
  
  Based on the novel by Joan G. Robinson, WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE is the latest film from Studio Ghibli, and the second feature film by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, director of Arrietty.