Studio Ghibli's 'When Marnie Was There' Hits The US In Spring 2015

We don't have to wait too long to see Studio Ghibli's latest film in the US. When Marnie Was There, which premiered in Japan last summer, has been acquired by GKIDS, the same label that released The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and From Up on Poppy Hill. The When Marnie Was There US release date is broadly set for Spring 2015. Revisit the trailer below.

The film, written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi (The Secret World of Arrietty), is based on a children's novel by Joan G. Robinson, and follows a young girl named Anna who makes her first real friend in the form of a mysterious girl named Marnie, who is connected to a forbidding, seemingly abandoned house.

The Wrap reports that GKIDS has "acquired all theatrical, non-theatrical, home video and television rights" for the film in North America and that "an English-language version is being produced by Studio Ghibli and Geoffrey Wexler." We don't know the English-language voice cast at this point.

In case you missed it last year, here's the trailer again, with English subs.

Anna hasn't a friend in the world – until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn't all she seems...An atmospheric ghost story with truths to tell about friendship, families and loneliness. Anna lives with foster parents, a misfit with no friends, always on the outside of things. Then she is sent to Norfolk to stay with old Mr and Mrs Pegg, where she runs wild on the sand dunes and around the water. There is a house, the Marsh House, which she feels she recognises – and she soon meets a strange little girl called Marnie, who becomes Anna's first ever friend. Then one day, Marnie vanishes. A new family, the Lindsays, move into the Marsh House. Having learnt so much from Marnie about friendship, Anna makes firm friends with the Lindsays – and learns some strange truths about Marnie, who was not all she seemed...