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.
- Year: 2014
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Mystery
- Studio: Studio Ghibli, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, KDDI, Nippon Television Network Corporation, TOHO, dentsu, The Walt Disney Company (Japan), Mitsubishi
- Keyword: friendship, based on novel or book, imaginary friend, flashback, photograph, calm, anime, personal diary, psychological
- Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
- Cast: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Susumu Terajima, Toshie Negishi, Ryoko Moriyama