From Up on Poppy Hill

7.5 2011 1h 31m Japan

Animation Drama

Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.

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Let’s walk facing upwards. Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.

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Directors

Goro Miyazaki

Writers

Keiko Niwa, Hayao Miyazaki, Tetsurō Sayama, Chizuru Takahashi

Cast

Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida, Rumi Hiiragi, Jun Fubuki, Takashi Naito, Shunsuke Kazama, Nao Omori, Teruyuki Kagawa, Haruka Shiraishi, Tsubasa Kobayashi, Ayako Ito, Naoya Fujimaki, Toshimi Kanno

Production

Studio Ghibli, Mitsubishi, Kodansha, KDDI, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners

Languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan