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When Marnie Was There

Promise we'll remain a secret, forever.

7.9 / 10

103 minutes

2014-07-19

Japanese

JP

Actors :

Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Susumu Terajima, Toshie Negishi, Ryoko Moriyama, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Hitomi Kuroki, Hiroyuki Morisaki, Takuma Otoo, Hana Sugisaki, Bari Suzuki, Shigeyuki Totsugi, Ken Yasuda, Yo Oizumi

Description

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.

Reviews

Ewa Wiman

Ewa Wiman

6/23/2021, 3:57:33 PM

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...

Reno

Reno

5/16/2024, 3:18:26 PM

> 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...