Jul 16, 2011
91 min
Full-HD

From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

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.

Category

Animation Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Studio Ghibli Hakuhodo DY Media Partners Mitsubishi KDDI Buena Vista Home Entertainment Kodansha Mitsubishi Corporation

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)

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