My Beautiful Girl, Mari
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My Beautiful Girl, Mari | |
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Hangul | 마리이야기 |
Revised Romanization | Mariiyagi |
McCune–Reischauer | Mariiyagi |
Directed by | Lee Sung-gang |
Written by | Lee Sung-gang |
Produced by | |
Cinematography | |
Edited by | Park Gok-ji |
Music by | Lee Byung-woo |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | ADV Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
My Beautiful Girl, Mari (Korean: 마리이야기; RR: Mariiyagi; lit. "The Story of Mari") is a 2002 South Korean animated film. It follows the story of a young boy during summer vacation and ascends into flights of surrealistic fantasy, which may or may not be dream sequences. The English-language dub was directed and produced by Carl Macek and licensed by A.D. Vision.
Plot[]
Kim Nam-woo struggles through life as people around him constantly leave him; his best friend, Jun-ho, is going to study in Seoul and in some ways his widowed mother is "leaving" him too by paying more attention to her new boyfriend. To escape, he goes to a dream world, where he meets a girl named Mari. The story follows Nam-woo in discovering himself and maturing.
Cast[]
- Nam-woo—Ryu Deok-hwan (Korean), (English)
- Adult Nam-woo—Lee Byung-hun (Korean), Jay Hickman (English)
- Jun-ho— (Korean), Clint Bickham (English)
- Adult Jun-ho—Gong Hyung-jin (Korean), Chris Patton (English)
- Nam-woo's Mom—Bae Jong-ok (Korean), Christine Auten (English)
- Nam-woo's Grandma—Na Moon-hee (Korean), Shelley Calene-Black (English)
- Jun-ho's Father—Jang Hang-sun (Korean), John Swasey (English)
- Soog-Y— (Korean), Kira Vincent-Davis (English)
- Kyung-min—Ahn Sung-ki (Korean), Andy McAvin (English)
Awards[]
- Grand Prix Winner (Best Feature Film) at the 26th Annecy International Animated Film Festival (Annecy, France)
External links[]
- My Beautiful Girl, Mari at IMDb
- My Beautiful Girl, Mari at HanCinema
- My Beautiful Girl, Mari: The blossoming of Korean animation—frames per second magazine
Categories:
- 2002 films
- Korean-language films
- South Korean animated films
- South Korean films
- 2000s fantasy films
- ADV Films
- Annecy Cristal for a Feature Film winners
- Animated film stubs
- South Korean film stubs