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JAPAN · 2014

When Marnie Was There

Hiromasa Yonebayashi
isolation and loneliness coming of age mental health memory and trauma supernatural mystery
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Synopsis

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.

Year2014
CountryJapan
DirectorHiromasa Yonebayashi
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