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.
Rating: 7.9
Genres Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Original language: ja
IMDb tt3398268
Stars
Sara Takatsuki as Anna Sasaki
Kasumi Arimura as Marnie
Nanako Matsushima as Anna's Guardian
Susumu Terajima as Mr. and Mrs. Pegg
Toshie Negishi as Mrs. Oiwa
Creators
Hiromasa Yonebayashi (Director)
Yoshiaki Nishimura (Producer)
Keiko Niwa (Writer)
Masashi Ando (Character Designer)
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