Jul 19, 2014
103 min
Full-HD

When Marnie Was There (2014)

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.

Category

Animation Drama Family Mystery

Country

Japan

Companies

Studio Ghibli Hakuhodo DY Media Partners KDDI Nippon Television Network Corporation TOHO dentsu Universal Studios Home Entertainment The Walt Disney Company (Japan) Mitsubishi

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)

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