From Up on Poppy Hill

Jul 16, 2011

1h 31m

★ 7.5

Overview

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.

Genres

Animation

Drama

Production Companies

Studio Ghibli

Hakuhodo DY Media Partners

Mitsubishi

KDDI

Kodansha

Mitsubishi Corporation

From Up on Poppy Hill Trailers

Cast

Umi Matsuzaki (voice)

Masami Nagasawa

Shun Kazama / Yuichiro Sawamura (voice)

Junichi Okada

Hana Matsuzaki (voice)

Keiko Takeshita

Miki Hokuto (voice)

Yuriko Ishida

Sachiko Hirokoji (voice)

Rumi Hiiragi

Ryoko Matsuzaki (voice)

Jun Fubuki

Yoshio Onodera (voice)

Takashi Naito

Shiro Mizunuma / Hiroshi Tachibana (voice)

Shunsuke Kazama

Akio Kazama (voice)

Nao Ômori

Tokumaru Rijicho (voice)

Teruyuki Kagawa

Sora Matsuzaki (voice)

Haruka Shiraishi

Riku Matsuzaki (voice)

Tsubasa Kobayashi

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