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When Marnie Was There

Movie · 2014 · 103 min

A gentle, wistful mystery that unfolds like a half-remembered dream, quietly building to an emotional revelation.

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2014 anime film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
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Year
2014
Runtime
103 min
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • family
  • grief
  • loneliness
  • memory
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism6
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

Details

Genres
drama, mystery
Directed by
Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Written by
Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Masashi Ando, Keiko Niwa
Music
Takatsugu Muramatsu
Cinematography
Atsushi Okui
Runtime
103 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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