Memories of Marnie

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Anime movie
title Memories of Marnie
Original title 思 い 出 の マ ー ニ ー
transcription Omoide no Mānī
When Marnie Was There logo.png
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2014
Studio Studio Ghibli
length 103 minutes
genre drama
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Hiromasa Yonebayashi
script Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Keiko Niwa , Masashi Ando
production Toshio Suzuki , Yoshiaki Nishimura
music Takatsugu Muramatsu
synchronization

Memories of Marnie ( Japanese 思 い 出 の マ ー ニ ー , Omoide no Mānī ) is an anime film by Studio Ghibli from 2014. It was directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and is based on the novel When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson . It is the last film from the studio, which then withdrew from the production of feature films in order to be restructured. The film was nominated for the Oscar 2016 in the category " Best Animated Feature Film ".

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12-year-old Anna is asthma and lonely. She used to be a lively child, but then became calm and withdrew. To recover, her foster mother Yoriko sent her from Sapporo to northern Hokkaidō over the summer to live with her relatives Kiyomasa and Setsu. As she walks through the unknown environment, she finds an old villa on the coast that is uninhabited. She is magically drawn to the building and so she wades through the low water and looks at the dilapidated house. There she falls asleep in the garden and when she wakes up, she cannot go back because of the flood that has meanwhile occurred. A man takes them with him in his rowboat, and as they drive away all the lights in the house are suddenly on. Kiyomasa and Setsu tell her that the house and a nearby silo have not been used for a long time. Rumor has it that it is haunted there.

Anna soon dreams of the house, sees a blonde girl in the window whose hair is being combed very roughly by an old woman. Over the next few days, Anna kept going to the villa to draw it. After quarreling with another girl at a Tanabata festival, she runs away and comes back to the old mansion. She has memories of looking for foster parents for her when she was much younger - but nobody wanted to take care of her. Desperate and in tears, she wants to run away when a candle lights up on a lonely boat. She gets in and rows in the direction of the villa, the boat suddenly shooting towards it like in a current. Suddenly the blonde girl from her dream comes to the pier and helps her. She introduces herself as Marnie.

In the near future Anna and Marnie become friends and meet often. Both seem to find a close loving bond with each other immediately and keep their meetings a secret. Anna thaws in her presence and for the first time has fun again and laughs heartily. Together they experience a lot together in the villa, but one day Marnie and everything in the villa disappeared. Anna is sad and near the house meets Hisako, an old woman who, like Anna before, is drawing the house. She tells Anna that a family will be moving into the villa again. When Anna runs to the house, she meets Sayaka, a girl her age, who Anna first thinks is Marnie, because she found an old diary with Marnie's name on it in her room and thinks Anna wants to get it back. Anna opens it and is surprised because the book describes everything that she has previously experienced together with Marnie, but the following pages have been torn out. Sayaka and Anna want to find out what this is all about and become friends.

Marnie will soon reappear. After going for a walk together, Anna tells her that she believes that her foster mother Yoriko only takes care of her because she receives monthly money, which she found out while secretly rummaging through her foster mother's files. It was also when Anna's self-esteem had dissipated and she no longer found herself valuable and good enough to make friends and accept her foster family as true family. Marnie takes her in her arms and comforts Anna with the confidence that Yoriko definitely loves her and doesn't care about her just because of the money. Then Marnie opens up to her and says that she was often left alone by her family - with her nanny and two maids who treated her very badly. Once, as a small child, she was almost locked in the dilapidated silo during a storm by the two spiteful maids, and only the violent thunderstorm had stopped her. Since then, Marnie has been very afraid of the building. To overcome their fear, Anna and Marnie go to the silo together. When Anna is called on the way near the silo by Sayaka, because she has found the missing pages and wants to show her, she turns away briefly and Marnie disappears. Up in the silo she finds Marnie crouching on the floor, completely frightened. Marnie clings to Anna and calls for "Kazuhiko", a friend of hers whom Anna had already seen once in the villa. Marnie is too scared to leave the silo and so they fall asleep clasped in the thunderstorm. Anna dreams of how Kazuhiko comes into the silo and saves the frightened Marnie. When she wakes up, she is alone in the silo and leaves it crying with anger because Marnie has left her. Sayaka, who has meanwhile read the pages found, sets off with her brother in the storm to look for Anna. They find her lying on the ground in the rain and bring her home because she has a high fever.

When Anna is better again, Sayaka shows her the missing pages and a picture of the villa, which is signed on the back by the friendly old painter Hisako. Together they visit Hisako, who reveals to them that she was an old childhood friend of Marnie's. She tells them that Marnie had a very difficult childhood, but later married Kazuhiko and they had a daughter. But Kazuhiko died soon afterwards and as Marnie fell sick with grief, they sent her daughter to boarding school. Shortly after Marnie's daughter had a child herself, she and the father died in a car accident. Marnie then raised their child for the first few years until she died herself.

When Yoriko comes to visit to pick Anna up, she is very happy that she is much better and that she has finally made friends. From an old photo of the villa that Yoriko brought with her, Anna learns that she is Marnie's granddaughter and in a flashback we see Marnie sitting next to little Anna on the bed, where she tells her the stories and adventures that she had with Kazuhiko. told. This explains why Anna experienced precisely these situations with Marnie in her dreams and ideas. Through the warmth and confidence that Marnie gave her in these daydreams, Anna has learned to make friends again and accepts Yoriko as her mother, as she introduces her as her 'mother' when they say goodbye to Hisako. She promises everyone to come to visit again soon and drives home with her mother smiling.

Production and publication

The film was directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and produced from a script by him and Keiko Niwa and Masashi Ando . Masashi Ando was employed as artistic director and animation director. Responsible producers were Toshio Suzuki and Yoshiaki Nishimura . The music was composed by Takatsugu Muramatsu . The credits were backed with the song Fine On The Outside by Priscilla Ahn .

The anime premiered on July 19, 2014. In the opening week, the film grossed 379 million yen and was the third most successful film. After eight weeks, the gross profit was 3.63 billion yen. Madman Entertainment licensed the anime for Australia and New Zealand.

The DVD and Blu-ray edition was released in Japan on March 18, 2015.

The German theatrical release was on November 12, 2015.

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in Germany on March 11, 2016.

synchronization

The German-language dubbing work took place at Scalamedia GmbH in Munich. Madeleine Stolze , who also took on the role of Yoriko, wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role Japanese voice actors ( seiyū ) German voice actors
Anna Sasaki Sara Takatsuki Laura Jenni
Marnie Kasumi Arimura Lara Wurmer
Hisako Hitomi Kuroki Claudia Lössl
Nanny Kazuko Yoshiyuki Angelika Bender
Yoriko Nanako Matsushima Madeleine proud
Kiyomasa Ōiwa Susumu Terajima Andreas Borcherding
Setsu Ōiwa Toshie Negishi Bettina Redlich

Reviews

In the Frankfurter Rundschau , Daniel Kothenschulte wrote that the “great production” had been successful in Japan, “but possibly not successful enough” - the production facility of the Ghibli studio will soon be just a museum. Not only is the film “a gift from the past” “in its perfect aesthetic”, reminiscent of “Hollywood's metaphysical melodramas of the thirties and forties”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Memories of Marnie . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2015 (PDF; test number: 155 598 K).
  2. ^ Ghibli Co-Founder Suzuki: Studio Considers Dismantling Production Department. Anime News Network , August 3, 2014, accessed December 29, 2014 .
  3. ↑ When Marnie Was There: Animated Feature Film Nominee , accessed January 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Kevin Ma: Pokemon defeats Ghibli at Japan box office. Film Business Asia , July 23, 2014, accessed December 29, 2014 .
  6. ^ Japanese Box Office, Sept. 6-7. Anime News Network , September 14, 2014, accessed December 29, 2014 .
  7. ↑ ブ ル ー レ イ デ ィ ス ク & DVD
  8. ↑ Memories of Marnie
  9. ↑ DVD & Blu-ray
  10. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Memories of Marnie. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Daniel Kothenschulte: The end of an era . In: Frankfurter Rundschau online, accessed on November 12, 2015

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