From up on Poppy Hill
Director: Gorō Miyazaki
Genre: Anime, Animation, Drama, Japanese Movies
Year: 2011
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese Language
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Okada Junichi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yuriko Ishida, Rumi Hiiragi, Keiko Takeshita, Takashi Naitō, Jun Fubuki, Nao Ōmori, Shunsuke Kazama
From up on Poppy Hill (コクリコ坂から, Kokuriko-zaka Kara, lit. "From Kokuriko Hill") is a 2011 Japanese animated drama film directed by Gorō Miyazaki, written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa and produced by Studio Ghibli.
The film is based on the manga series of the same name by Tetsuo Sayama and Chizuru Takahashi. It was released by Toho in Japan on July 16, 2011, and will be released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on a currently unknown release date.
The story is set in 1963 in Yokohama.
Kokuriko Manor sits on a hill overlooking the harbour. A 16 year-old girl, Umi, lives in that house. Every morning she raises a signal flag facing the sea. The flag means "I pray for safe voyages". A 17 year-old boy, Shun, always sees this flag from the sea as he rides a tugboat to school.
In preparation for next year's Tokyo Olympics, people are destroying the old and believing only in the magnificence of the new. In that time, at a high school in Yokohama, a small struggle occurred. The building of the Culture Club, nicknamed Quartier Latin, is old but full of history and memories. Should it be destroyed or preserved? In the middle of this, Umi and Shun meet. Shun appeals to the
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