

When Marnie Was There
Promise we'll remain a secret, forever.
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.
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7.9/10
2,040 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $34.9M
- Language
- Japanese
- friendship
- based on novel or book
- imaginary friend
- flashback
- photograph
- summer vacation
- foster child
- convalescence
- personal growth
- seaside town
- calm
- anime
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Japan
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG22 May 2015
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical (limited)U25 Dec 2015
- TheatricalU10 Jun 2016
- PhysicalU3 Oct 2016
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG18 Mar 2015
BrazilBR
- TheatricalL19 Nov 2015
- PhysicalDVD and Bluray27 Jun 2016
CzechiaCZ
- TheatricalU4 Apr 2024
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical725 Dec 2015
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-72 Oct 2015
FranceFR
- TheatricalU14 Jan 2015
GermanyDE
- Theatrical012 Nov 2015
- Physical0DVD & Blu-ray11 Mar 2016
- TV0arte12 Jun 2017
Hong KongHK
- TheatricalI2 Apr 2015
HungaryHU
- Digital / OTTKN25 Nov 2015
IrelandIE
- TheatricalG10 Jun 2016
Frequently asked questions
When Marnie Was There was released on 19 July 2014.
Audience reviews
3- E10/10
Ewa Wiman
4/18/2015
This is a very beautiful animated film from Studio Ghibli, possibly the last one to com out of Studioe Ghibli for some time or last one ever. It is about Anna, a young girl that we learn has asthma and is feeling very alone. She is sent to relatives in the country to recuperate from severe sickness. Once there she meets another young girl, who is blond and also has beautiful blue eyes like Anna. Anna feels real…
- R9/10
Reno
6/16/2015
> Some people're destined to meet the secret friend. From the director Hiromasa Yonebayashi of 'The Secret World of Arriety' fame. Based on the 1967 English novel of the same name and so the important characters borrowed the western names. This is what I call a fine adaptation, great transformation from the words to the motion picture. Actually, it suited for the narration from the standpoint of Japanese culture a…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
8/4/2026
I thought there something of the "Rapunzel" to this story. "Anna" is a frail twelve year old girl who has never quite fitted in, and who has been sent by her caring foster-mother from her home in the city to spend the summer in a quiet town by the sea in the hope that it may have some recuperative effect. Whilst exploring one day, she encounters an home aptly named "Marsh House" inhabited by the mysterious and solita…
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