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Ghibli's When Marnie Was There English Dub Trailer Streamed

posted on by Karen Ressler
Hailee Steinfeld, Kiernan Shipka star in film opening May 22 in NYC, LA

Animated film distribution company GKIDS began streaming the English-dubbed trailer for Studio Ghibli's When Marnie Was There on Wednesday.

The film will open in U.S. theaters on May 22. The initial release will be limited to New York and Los Angeles, but GKIDS will expand the screening in the following weeks.

The English dub cast is as follows:

GKIDS describes the story:

Sent from her foster home in the city one summer to a sleepy town by the sea in Hokkaido, Anna dreams her days away among the marshes. She believes she's outside the invisible magic circle to which most people belong – and shuts herself off from everyone around her, wearing her “ordinary face.” Anna never expected to meet a friend like Marnie, who does not judge Anna for being just what she is. But no sooner has Anna learned the loveliness of friendship than she begins to wonder about her newfound friend...

When Marnie Was There adapts Joan G. Robinson's classic English children's novel of the same name. In his second film, director Hiromasa Yonebayashi (2010's The Secret World of Arrietty) has shifted the setting from the novel's Great Britain to a Japanese village on the shores of Hokkaido. Yonebayashi wrote the screenplay with Keiko Niwa (The Secret World of Arrietty) and Masashi Ando (A Letter to Momo, Spirited Away, Paprika). Ando also handled the character designs and animation direction. Takatsugu Muramatsu composed the film's soundtrack.

The film first premiered in North America at The New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF) in February.

The film opened in Japan last July.


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