From Up on Poppy Hill

Name: From Up on Poppy Hill
Director: Goro Miyazaki
Genre: Animation, Drama
Released: 2011-07-16
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida, Rumi Hiiragi

Let’s walk facing upwards.

Animation Drama

7.5

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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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DirectorGoro Miyazaki

Keywords

high schoolstudents' movementromance based on mangateenage lovedead fatherclubhousepost war japan1960s animelovingyokohama20th centurygrandchange vs traditionjapanese economic miracle

Budget$22M

Box Office$61M