From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

07/16/2011 (JP) • 1h 31m

Animation, Drama

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.

Top Billed Cast

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 Hirokoji (voice)

Jun Fubuki

Ryoko Matsuzaki (voice)

Takashi Naito

Yoshio Onodera (voice)

Shunsuke Kazama

Shiro Mizunuma / Hiroshi Tachibana (voice)

Nao Omori

Akio Kazama (voice)


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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$22,000,000.00

Revenue

$61,037,844.00

Keywords

high school

students' movement

romance

based on manga

teenage love

dead father

clubhouse

post war japan

1960s

anime

yokohama

change vs tradition

japanese economic miracle

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