On July 27, 2014, Nippon TV presented Until The End of The Creation of When Marnie Was There, a 42-minute documentary following the film's release in Japanese theaters.Īnna Sasaki is sent to a rural, seaside town after suffering an asthma attack.Īnna Sasaki is an introverted 12-year-old girl living in Sapporo with foster parents, Yoriko and her husband. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature]at the 88th Academy Awards. The film was released in theatres on 19 July 2014, and on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan on 18 March 2015. The film featured the final work for Studio Ghibli animator Makiko Futaki, who died in May 2016.

It was the final film for Studio Ghibli, before they announced that its division would take a short hiatus after The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, and the retirement of Hayao Miyazaki a year before the film was released. It was first published in Japan in 1980 by Iwanami Bunko Boy.

He was nominated for the Carnegie Medal finalist in 1968, and was televised on the BBC's Jackanory in 1971 (5 episodes). The first edition of the novel was published in 1967 by the British publisher Collins and sold 250,000 copies. Anna comes across a nearby abandoned mansion, where she meets Marnie, a mysterious girl who asks her to promise to keep her secrets from everyone. The film follows Anna Sasaki living with her relatives in the seaside town. It transposes the setting from Norfolk, England in the original novel to Hokkaido, Japan. This is Yonebayashi's second directorial work after The Secret World of Arrietty in 2010 and was his final film before he left Studio Ghibli and joined Studio Ponoc. (US$34.1 million) When Marnie Was There (思い出のマーニー, Omoide no Mānī, literally Marnie of Memories) is an animated psychological drama film written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, produced by Studio Ghibli and released on July 19, 2014.

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