![]() ![]() That all changes when Anna comes across Marnie, an ethereal blonde girl living in a strange mansion across a marsh. Studio Ghibli’s unparalleled artistry is in full effect The seaside setting is beautiful, but Anna doesn’t get along with the locals any better than she did in Sapporo, preferring to sit by herself and draw. Anna is a troubled 12-year-old girl living in Sapporo, and after she suffers an asthma attack, her foster parents send her away to breathe clean air with relatives in rural Hokkaido. When Marnie Was There opens in the tradition of similarly subdued Ghibli movies like Only Yesterday and Whisper of the Heart, placing its main character in a hyper-detailed, authentic depiction of a modern Japanese city.
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