From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

• 91 min

7.5

Directed by: Goro Miyazaki
Casting: Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida, Rumi Hiiragi, Jun Fubuki, Takashi Naito, Shunsuke Kazama, Nao Ômori, Teruyuki Kagawa, Haruka Shiraishi, Tsubasa Kobayashi, Aoi Teshima, Goro Miyazaki
Countries: Japan
Premiere: 2011-07-16
Status: Released

Tags: 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

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.