Promise we'll remain a secret, forever.

When Marnie Was There

Name: When Marnie Was There
Genre: Drama, Animation, Family
Released: 2014-07-19
Duration: 103 min
Cast: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Susumu Terajima, Toshie Negishi

Japanese Cinema20141h 43mJapaneseTop 25% of Japanese Cinema grosses

73Standing

43rd of 224 in Japanese Cinema

Reported gross: 74
Audience rating: 86
Momentum: 58

Out-grossed 74% of Japanese Cinema releases with reported figures ($35M).
Momentum in the 58th percentile.
Audience rating 7.9 from 2,034 votes, the 86th percentile.

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Cost: Not on record
Took: $35M

What did you make of it?

The picture

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.

Released: 19 July 2014
Runtime: 1h 43m
Language: Japanese
Industry: Japanese Cinema

Top billedAll 25 credits

Sara TakatsukiAnna Sasaki (voice)
Kasumi ArimuraMarnie (voice)
Nanako MatsushimaYoriko Sasaki (voice)
Susumu TerajimaKiyomasa Oiwa (voice)
Toshie NegishiSetsu Oiwa (voice)
Ryoko MoriyamaElderly Lady (voice)

Made by

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Screenplay: Masashi Ando, Keiko Niwa, Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Original Music Composer: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui
Producer: Koji Hoshino, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Tomoko Nakayama, Masami Hosokawa

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