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From Up on Poppy Hill
“Let’s walk facing upwards.”
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.
Directed by Goro Miyazaki, Koji Hoshino
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Status
Released
Released
July 16, 2011
Runtime
1h 31m
Language
Japanese
Budget → Revenue
$22M → $61M
Top 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)
Teruyuki Kagawa
Tokumaru Board Chairman (voice)
Haruka Shiraishi
Sora Matsuzaki (voice)
Tsubasa Kobayashi
Riku Matsuzaki (voice)
Ayako Ito
Secretary to the Tokumaru Board Chairman (voice)
Naoya Fujimaki
Tokumaru Front Desk Receptionist (voice)
Toshimi Kanno
Nobuko (voice)
Aoi Teshima
Yuko (voice)
Fumihiro Awano
(voice)
Hikaru Ishiguro
(voice)
Keisuke Ishida
(voice)
Shinsuke Ueda
(voice)
