From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
Also Known As: From Kokuriko Hill | From up on Poppy Hill | Kokuriko-zaka Kara
Genre: Drama, Adaptation, Animated, Foreign
Director: Goro Miyazaki
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, junichi okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Run Time: 1 hour 31 minutes
Distributors: GKids
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Plot:
In Yokohama 1963, a budding romance develops between Umi and Shun as they join forces to save their high school’s ramshackle clubhouse from demolition. The story takes place in a Japan that 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 new generation struggles to embrace modernity and throw off the shackles of a troubled past.