My Beautiful Girl, Mari

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.

My Beautiful Girl, Mari
Theatrical poster
Hangul
Revised RomanizationMariiyagi
McCune–ReischauerMariiyagi
Directed byLee Sung-gang
Produced byCho Sung-won
Written byKang Su-jeong
Lee Sung-gang
Seo Mi-ae
Music byLee Byung-woo
CinematographyKwon Geun-wook
Edited byPark Gok-ji
Production
company
Daewoo Entertainment
Kuk Dong
Siz Entertainment
Distributed byChungeorahm Film
ADV Films
Release date
  • January 18, 2002 (2002-01-18)
Running time
80 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean

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

Awards

  • Grand Prix Winner (Best Feature Film) at the 26th Annecy International Animated Film Festival (Annecy, France)
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