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When Marnie Was There
思い出のマーニー
2014 · Film · 103 min
Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
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.
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I adore "The Secret World of Arrietty" and "When Marnie Was There". I hope Hiromasa Yonebayashi gets to direct more of Ghibli's movies.
There are notable Studio Ghibli films that were not made by Miyazaki such as Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and When Marnie was There.
All of those were in my opinion excellent films and similar in style to ones made by Miyazaki, and I think fans of Miyazaki's work will also enjoy them.
> Obviously a horrible hideous theft machine.
I hate how it is common to advance a position to just state a conclusion as if it were a fact. You keep repeating the same thing over and over until it seems like a concensus has been reached instead of an actual argument reasoned from first principle.
This is no theft here. Any copyright would be flimsier than software patents. I love Studio Ghibli (including $500/seat festival tickets) but it's the heart and the detail that make them what they are. You cannot clone that. Just some surface similarity. If that's all you like about the movies... you really missed the point.
Imagine if in early cinema someone had tried to claim mustachioed villian, ditsy blonde, or dumb jock? These are just tropes and styles. Quality work goes much much much deeper, and that cannot be synthesised. I can AI generate a million engagement rings, but I cannot pick the perfect one that fits you and your partners love story.
PS- the best work they did was "When Marnie was There". Just fitted together perfectly.
If someone is looking for more recommendations based on anime they've watched and their locations, here's a 2019-version in Japanese (there's a huge number of videos in Japanese it seems, I just took a random version).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlvPi09jVoA
I'll try listing them the ones below (brackets contain English names):
1. Hokkaido
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san: Sapporo City
Boku dake ga inai machi (Erased): Tomakomai City
Kanon: Sapporo City
Seitokai no ichizon: Sapporo City
Golden Kamui: All across Hokkaido
Servant x Service: Sapporo City
Sora no method: Toyako Town
Omoide no Marnie (When Marnie Was There): Kushiro City
Kimi ni todoke: Haboro Town
WORKING!!: Sapporo City
Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet : Otaru City
Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru (Beautiful Bones -Sakurako's Investigation): Asahikawa City
2. Aomori Prefecture
Kumo no mukou, yakusoku no basho (The Place Promised in Our Early Days): Aomori Prefecture
Flying Witch: Hirosaki City
3. Iwate Prefecture
Inugami!: Morioka City
4. Miyagi Prefecture
Kannagi: Sendai City
Haikyuu: Sendai City
Wake Up, Girls: Sendai City
5. Akita Prefecture
Itoshi no Muco (Lovely Muco): Akita City
Kumamiko: Akita Prefecture
6. Yamagata Prefecture
Omoide Poroporo: Yamagata City
LEVEL E: Yamagata City
7. Fukushima Prefecture
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei (Engaged to the Unidentified): Kooriyama City
8. Ibaraki Prefecture
Girls und Panzer: Oorai Town
Momokuri: Mito City
Noucome (My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy): Mito City
Sakura Trick: Inashiki City
9. Tochigi Prefecture
Yosuga no sora: Ashikaga City
Mokke: Tochigi Prefecture
Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase: Utsunomiya City
10. Gunma Prefecture
Nichijou: Isesaki City
Initial D: Mt. Akagi, Mt. Myogi
Sora yori mo tooi basho (A Place Further than the Universe): Tatebayashi City
Aku no Hana: Kiryu City
Houkago no Pleadas: Oota City
I strongly enjoy movies by Studio Ghibli, and they mostly are female-led. Lets look at the latest, exclusively female-led movie from 2014 called When Marnie Was There.
IMDB: Men made 7779 votes with average 7.7, women made 2881 votes with average 7.9
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3398268/ratings-male
That is 0.2 points difference. If we look at ponyo, the difference is even less, with 0.1 points difference. If there is a bias, it is not exactly tanking the rating, and someone would have work hard to identify if its because women rate women-led movies higher than average, or males who rate it lower.
Every Hayao Miyazaki film.
Anything else out of Studio Ghibli. This was in theaters in the past year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Marnie_Was_There