My Beautiful Girl, Mari

My Beautiful Girl, Mari
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Hangul	마리이야기
Revised Romanization	Mariiyagi
McCune–Reischauer	Mariiyagi
Directed by	Lee Sung-gang
Written by	Kang Su-jeong Lee Sung-gang Seo Mi-ae
Produced by	Cho Sung-won
Cinematography	Kwon Geun-wook
Edited by	Park Gok-ji
Music by	Lee Byung-woo
Production companies	Daewoo Entertainment Kuk Dong Siz Entertainment
Distributed by	Chungeorahm Film ADV Films
Release date	January 18, 2002 (2002-01-18)
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

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	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

Awards

• Grand Prix Winner (Best Feature Film) at the 26th Annecy International Animation 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