From Up on Poppy Hill

• 7.523 Animation
• 2011-07-16
• 91 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Masami Nagasawa (Umi Matsuzaki (voice)) Junichi Okada (Shun Kazama / Yuichiro Sawamura (voice)) Keiko Takeshita (Hana Matsuzaki (voice)) Yuriko Ishida (Miki Hokuto (voice)) Rumi Hiiragi (Sachiko Hirokôji (voice)) Jun Fubuki (Ryoko Matsuzaki (voice)) Takashi Naito (Yoshio Onodera (voice)) Shunsuke Kazama (Shirô Mizunuma / Hiroshi Tachibana (voice)) Nao Ômori (Akio Kazama (voice)) Teruyuki Kagawa (Tokumaru Rijichô (voice))

Director:

Goro Miyazaki

Writer:

Keiko Niwa Hayao Miyazaki