[When Marnie Was There English Dub 1080p
Ainoha Sistek
The film follows Anna Sasaki while she stays with her relatives in a town in the Kushiro wetlands in Hokkaido. Anna comes across a nearby abandoned mansion, where she meets Marnie, a mysterious girl who asks her to promise to keep their secrets from everyone. As summer progresses, Anna spends more time with Marnie and learns the truth about her family and foster care.
The film featured the final work for Studio Ghibli animator Makiko Futaki, who died in May 2016.[4] It was also the final film that Yonebayashi directed for Ghibli before he left and joined Studio Ponoc. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation, music, vocal performances, and emotional story. It was released in theaters on 19 July 2014,[5] and on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan on 18 March 2015.[6] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 88th Academy Awards, but it lost to Inside Out.
Anna Sasaki is a 12-year-old girl with low self-esteem living in Sapporo with her foster parents, Yoriko and her husband. One day, Anna suffers an asthma attack at school. At the doctor's recommendation to send Anna to a place where the air is clean, Yoriko decides to have her spend summer break with Yoriko's relatives, Setsu and Kiyomasa Oiwa, who live in a rural seaside town located between Kushiro and Nemuro.
Anna investigates an abandoned mansion across a salt marsh. She recognizes it, but the tide ensnares her and keeps her there until Toichi, an elderly fisherman, finds her. Anna sees a blonde-haired girl in the mansion. On the night of the Tanabata festival, she meets the girl, Marnie. The two agree to keep their meetings secret. Marnie invites Anna to a party at the mansion, where she sees Marnie dancing with a boy named Kazuhiko. Anna sketches Marnie while there.
Sayaka finds the missing pages from Marnie's diary, which include passages about Kazuhiko and the silo. She and her brother find Anna unconscious with a high fever. They bring her back to the Oiwas, where Anna confronts Marnie, intending not to forgive her. Marnie says she is sorry for leaving her and she can't see Anna anymore. Before they part, Anna tells Marnie that she loves her and forgives her.
When Anna recovers, Hisako reveals Marnie's story: Marnie married Kazuhiko and had a daughter named Emily, but he died from a sudden illness. Marnie committed herself to a sanatorium to cope with her loss. With no other family to care for her, Emily was sent to a boarding school. Marnie recovered but as a preteen, Emily was resentful for her mother abandoning her. In her adulthood, Emily ran away from home and had a daughter herself, but she and her husband were killed in a car accident. Marnie raised her granddaughter, who was placed in foster care after her death.
At the end of the summer, Yoriko arrives to take Anna home and is delighted to see Anna with her new friends, Hisako, Toichi, and Sayaka. She gives Anna a photograph of the mansion and says it belonged to Anna's grandmother. When Anna sees Marnie's name written on the back, she realizes that she is Emily's daughter and Marnie's granddaughter, and knew so much of Marnie's story because she had heard it as a child. This revelation brings closure to her identity. Yoriko tells Anna about the government payments but reassures her they have always loved her. For the first time, Anna calls Yoriko her mother.
The original novel by Joan G. Robinson had previously been cited by Hayao Miyazaki as one of his favorite children's novels.[10] Hiromasa Yonebayashi was assigned the project by Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki, who asked him to change the setting of the story to Japan. Yonebayashi found the story moving, but he "thought it would be very difficult to visualize as a film," and initially turned down the role. His interest was later renewed and he began to conceive new elements for the story, such as Anna's characterization as an artist.[11] Although the setting was changed, the decision was made to retain Marnie's appearance as blonde and blue-eyed, though Miyazaki was opposed to this decision. According to Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura, Miyazaki judged the usage of Marnie's character "plain outdated and cheesy" to promote the film, although Nishimura clarified that catching people's attention with her appearance never had been their intention.[12]
Yonebayashi intended the film to be encouraging to children in Japan who felt lonely and isolated, and hoped that "when they see Marnie, maybe they could take a little step forward".[11] Key focus was placed upon highly detailed character movements and backgrounds, as well as depicting the details of Anna's experience in the environment.[13][14] The Marsh House that is central to the story was designed by Yohei Taneda, who Yonebayashi asked "to draw the Marsh House as if it were another character who watches over Anna." Taneda scouted buildings in Hokkaido for inspiration.[15]
When Marnie Was There was released in Japan on July 19, 2014. On 14 January, GKIDS announced that they would be distributing the film for a North American release on May 22, 2015.[17] The film premired at the New York International Children's Film Festival on 27 February 2015.[18] The film had its UK premiere during the BFI London Film Festival on 10 October 2015 with a wider release scheduled for 10 June 2016.[19]
The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan by Walt Disney Studios Japan on 18 March 2015,[20] and released on Blu-ray and DVD in America by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment on October 6, 2015.[21]
When Marnie Was There opened at third place, grossing 379 million during its opening weekend in Japan.[22] By its fourth weekend, it had earned 2.08 billion,[23] made an additional 930 million in its next two weekends,[24] and had a total of 3.363 billion by its eighth weekend.[25] By the end of 2014, the film had grossed 3.53 billion ($33,319,244) in Japan.[26]
In Japan, the Blu-ray release sold 15,224 units as of December 2015[update][33] and the DVD release sold 28,560 units as of July 2017[update],[34] for a combined total of at least 43,784 physical home video units sold in Japan.
Following the success of the film, Robinson's original novel experienced a boost in sales internationally. Her agent Caroline Sheldon sold the rights of the book to 10 countries, including Japan, Italy, Spain and China. The book was also re-released in English by HarperCollins Children's Books as part of its classics range.[38]
When Marnie Was There received positive reviews. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 92%, based on 100 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "When Marnie Was There is still blessed with enough visual and narrative beauty to recommend, even if it isn't quite as magical as Studio Ghibli's greatest works."[39] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 72 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[40]
It is based on Joan G. Robinson's same-named novel. It transposes the setting from Norfolk, England in the original novel to Hokkaido, Japan. The film follows Anna Sasaki living with her relatives in the seaside town. 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 first edition of the novel was published in 1967 by the British publisher Collins and sold 250,000 copies. He was nominated for the Carnegie Medal finalist in 1968, and was televised on the BBC's Jackanory in 1971 (5 episodes). It was first published in Japan in 1980 by Iwanami Bunko Boy.
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.[1] The film featured the final work for Studio Ghibli animator Makiko Futaki, who died in May 2016.[2]
Anna Sasaki is an introverted 12-year-old girl living in Sapporo with foster parents, Yoriko and her husband. Anna believes that there is an invisible magic circle in the world and that she is on the outside away from everyone else. One day at school, she collapses from an asthma attack and is brought home. Anna's friends bring her backpack to the house and when Yoriko asks if Anna is doing all right they tell her Anna's fine, she's just doesn't talk a lot. After the girls leave, Yoriko discusses with Anna's doctor about her recently withdrawn attitude as she no longer smiles or talks about her friends at school. It is probably because of two reasons, her dad has to travel a lot for work so Yoriko is raising her on her own, but the other big reason is because she and Yoriko are not blood related. The doctor actually recommends sending her to spend the summer with Setsu and Kiyomasa Oiwa, relatives of Yoriko, in the rural, seaside town of Kissakibetsu, where the air is clear, located between Kushiro and Nemuro. The town where the Oiwas' live in used to have lots of people visit, but after a highway was built, people stopped passing through. 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. 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.
After getting settled, Anna goes for a walk and sees an abandoned mansion across a salt marsh, she goes to investigate it. She looks around, finding it familiar, she goes to get a closer look. She realizes that no one has lived there in ages as the place is falling apart. 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. During that time, Anna thinks she sees lights in the house turning on, but seconds later, it is only the sunlight. When she returns to the Oiwa's for dinner, Setsu tells her that the mansion used to be a vacation home for some foreigners, but after changing hands several times it has been empty for a long time while Kiyomasa advices her to stay away from the mansion since he believes it's haunted (like the silo). Starting that night, Anna dreams of seeing a blonde girl in the mansion.
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