When Marnie Was There (2014)

2014 · 103 min · Animation, Drama, Family

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.

Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Starring Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Susumu Terajima and Toshie Negishi.

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