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.
Genres
Animation, Drama, Family
Studio
Studio Ghibli
Language
ja
Status
Released
How When Marnie Was There performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$34.9M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~38/62, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (28% of the domestic run, typical for Animation) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Anna Sasaki (voice)
Sara Takatsuki
Anna Sasaki (voice)
Marnie (voice)
Kasumi Arimura
Marnie (voice)
Yoriko Sasaki (voice)
Nanako Matsushima
Yoriko Sasaki (voice)
Kiyomasa Oiwa (voice)
Susumu Terajima
Kiyomasa Oiwa (voice)
Setsu Oiwa (voice)
Toshie Negishi
Setsu Oiwa (voice)
Elderly Lady (voice)
Ryoko Moriyama
Elderly Lady (voice)
Nanny (voice)
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Nanny (voice)
Hisako (voice)
Hitomi Kuroki
Hisako (voice)
Art Teacher (voice)
Hiroyuki Morisaki
Art Teacher (voice)
Neighborhood Association Officer (voice)
Takuma Otoo
Neighborhood Association Officer (voice)
Sayaka (voice)
Hana Sugisaki
Sayaka (voice)
Elderly Lady 2 (voice)
Bari Suzuki
Elderly Lady 2 (voice)
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