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My Beautiful Girl, Mari

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

My Beautiful Girl, Mari (Korean마리이야기; RRMariiyagi; 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

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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

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Character Korean voice actor English voice actor
Nam-woo Ryu Deok-hwan Alejandro Fallick
Adult Nam-woo Lee Byung-hun Jay Hickman
Jun-ho Sung In-gyu [ko] Clint Bickham
Adult Jun-ho Gong Hyung-jin Chris Patton
Nam-woo's Mom Bae Jong-ok Christine Auten
Nam-woo's Grandma Na Moon-hee Shelley Calene-Black
Jun-ho's Father Jang Hang-sun John Swasey
Soog-Y Lee Nari Kira Vincent-Davis
Kyung-min Ahn Sung-ki Andy McAvin

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