Japan Synopsis
思い出のマーニー
“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.
Audience Engagement
1,617 audience reviews — more than 98% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 84th percentile among Japan films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with When Marnie Was There. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
4 sharedThe Princess and the Pilot
★ 7.9 · Japan
3 sharedFortune Favors Lady Nikuko
★ 7.0 · Japan
2 sharedPrincess Mononoke
★ 8.3 · Japan
2 sharedTo Me, the One Who Loved You
★ 5.7 · Japan
2 sharedTo Every You I've Loved Before
★ 6.5 · Japan
2 sharedDragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle
★ 6.5 · Japan
Other Titles From Studio Ghibli
Animation + Drama in Japan
730 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Animation and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding When Marnie Was There itself).
The 2013–2015 Japan Window
Among 546 Japan films we catalog from this window, When Marnie Was There places #64 — near the top of its class.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Japan, 1769 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when When Marnie Was There premiered alongside 186 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 186 other Japan films in 2014.
The 3011th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on When Marnie Was There, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- photograph · 3
- imaginary friend · 1
- personal diary · 1
- flashback · 28
- anime · 711
- based on novel or book · 288
- friendship · 134
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #521 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (89th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.1 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Animation productions specifically: #438 of 2,532 (top 17%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Studio Ghibli, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, KDDI, Nippon Television Network Corporation, TOHO |
| Runtime | 1h 43m |
| Release Date | July 19, 2014 |
| IMDb | tt3398268 |
| Official Site | www.uphe.com |