My Beautiful Girl, Mari

2002 South Korean film

My Beautiful Girl, Mari
Theatrical poster

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 [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

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