My Beautiful Girl, 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 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: The blossoming of Korean animation—frames per second magazine