Starting that night, Anna dreams of seeing a blonde girl in the mansion. When she returns to the Oiwa's, Setsu tells her that the mansion used to be a vacation home for some foreigners, but that it has been empty for a long time while Kiyomasa warns her to stay away from the mansion since he believes that the mansion and the silo are haunted. During that time, Anna thinks she sees lights in the house turning on, but seconds later, it is only the sunlight. While up at the house she doses off but when she realizes it's sunset, she leaves but gets trapped there by the rising tide until she is found by Toichi, a taciturn old fisherman, who brings her back to the pier with his rowboat.
She realizes that no one has lived there in ages as the place is falling apart. She looks around, finding it familiar, she goes to get a closer look. When they arrive at the house, Anna thinks the house is nice, with their children all grown up, Anna will be sleeping in their daughter's room, who is now working in Tokyo as a Yoga instructor.Īfter getting settled, Anna goes for a walk and sees an abandoned mansion across a salt marsh, she goes to investigate it. While driving Anna notices a silo on the hill, according to Kiyomasa it's used to store feed on farms but that silo hasn't been used in ages, in fact it's a place where all the local kids dare each other to go in and says it's a good idea to avoid the place all together. The town where the Oiwas' live in used to have lots of people visit, but after a highway was built, people stopped passing through. The doctor and her parents decide to send her to spend the summer with Setsu and Kiyomasa Oiwa, relatives of her foster mother Yoriko, in the rural, seaside town of Kissakibetsu, where the air is clear, located between Kushiro and Nemuro. Yoriko discusses with Anna's doctor about her recently withdrawn attitude as she no longer smiles or talks about her friends at school. One day at school, she collapses from an asthma attack. She believes that there is an invisible magic circle in the world and feels like she is on the outside away from everyone else.
#When marnie was there amazon tv#
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 the 21st animated psychological drama film written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, produced by Studio Ghibli and released on July 19, 2014.
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