Souvenirs de Marnie (2014)

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside, 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.

Director:

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Writers:

Joan G. Robinson (novel), Keiko Niwa (screenplay)

Stars:

Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 15 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Sara Takatsuki	...	Anna Sasaki (voice)
Kasumi Arimura	...	Marnie (voice)
Nanako Matsushima	...	Yoriko Sasaki (voice)
Susumu Terajima	...	Kiyomasa Oiwa (voice)
Toshie Negishi	...	Setsu Oiwa (voice)
Ryôko Moriyama	...	Elderly Lady (voice)
Kazuko Yoshiyuki	...	Nanny (voice)
Hitomi Kuroki	...	Hisako (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ava Acres	...	Sayaka (voice)
Kyle Arem	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Laura Bailey	...	Nobuko's Friend (voice)
Kathy Bates	...	Mrs. Kadoya (voice)
Eric Bauza	...	Marnie's Dad (voice)
Bob Bergen	...	Dr. Yamashita (voice)
Taylor Autumn Bertman	...	Young Marnie (voice)

Storyline

A young girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with flowing blonde hair. As the friendship unravels it is possible that Marnie has closer ties to the protagonist than we might expect.

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Plot Keywords:

young girl | friendship | diary | grandmother | mansion | 

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Taglines:

Promise we'll remain a secret, forever.

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Genres:

Animation | Drama | Family | Mystery

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for thematic elements and smoking

Details

Official Sites:

Official Site [Japan]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

14 January 2015 (France)

Also Known As:

Souvenirs de Marnie

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$40,282 (USA) (29 May 2015)

Gross:

$400,295 (USA) (19 June 2015)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, KDDI Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

'Sheeta' from 'Laputa, Castle in the Sky' makes a cameo appearance behind Anna and Nobuko during the light party.

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Goofs

The Victrola in The Marsh Mansion came from the 1920's, but it has an S-shape tone arm. The designers should have looked at this machine from that era on YouTube. (Search for 1920 Victrola.)

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Connections

Featured in The 88th Annual Academy Awards (2016)

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Soundtracks

Fine on the Outside
Written and Performed by Priscilla Ahn

User Reviews

A touching heartwarming story done using anime.

This one was an interesting one for me.

It was a great movie, and an amazing story about a lonely foster kid whose angry at the world, but befriends a mysterious girl that changes her life forever.

I'm usually not into this type of anime that tells a story that can be told using live-action. The movie is similar to the Wind Rises in it's dramatic pulse, but the animation in The Wind Rises was able to help the story along far more than it did with this one. There was nothing about the film that seemed to be helped with the fact that it's animated. I know people who love movies like this but will not go see it cause it's a "cartoon" which is a shame.

The story in itself is so good that I forget that the anime theme was what sucked me in, and I just take it in as the overall excellent movie that it is. It's just such a beautiful story about friendship and commitment, and the animators did do a great job in showing deep emotions through their moving pictures. A hard task, even to do in live-action, done perfectly by animators, so I guess for them the movie was an ultimate challenge in animating that they won.

Definitely worth taking a look at and hope to see it at as a Oscar nominee in 2016.