From Up on Poppy Hill
– The story is set in 1963 in Yokohama. Kokuriko Manor sits on a hill overlooking the harbour. A 16 ye..
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. Gradually the pair are drawn to each other but they are faced with a sudden trial. Even so, they keep going without running from facing the hardships of reality.
16 Jul 2011
Japanese
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Gorô Miyazaki
Tetsurô Sayama (original story), Hayao Miyazaki (screenplay), Keiko Niwa (screenplay), Patrick Mullen (Additional Dialogue, English Language Adaptation), Chizuru Takahashi (comic), Tetsurô Sayama (comic)
Masami Nagasawa, Jun'ichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida
A group of Yokohama teens look to save their school's clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
6 wins & 11 nominations.
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