The setting is Yokohama in 1963, and the filmmakers lovingly bring to life the bustling seaside town, with its misty harbor, sun-drenched gardens, shops and markets, and some of the most mouthwatering Japanese home-cooking set to film. The story centers on an innocent romance beginning to bud between Umi and Shun, two high school kids caught up in the changing times. 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. While the children work together to save a dilapidated Meiji era club house from demolition, their tentative relationship begins to blossom. But - in an unexpected twist that parallels what the country itself is facing - a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart. (c) GKids
Release Date From Up On Poppy Hill Mar 15, 2013 Limited
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Actors For From Up On Poppy Hill

Sarah Bolger,Masami Nagasawa,Isabelle Fuhrman,Haruza Shiraishi,Anton Yelchin,Junichi Okada,Christina Hendricks,Gillian Anderson,Yuriko Ishida,Alex Wolff,Raymond Ochoa,Tsubasa Kobayashi,Aubrey Plaza,Rumi Hiiragi,Chris Noth,Nao Omori,Jeff Dunham,Emily Osment,Jamie Lee Curtis,Jun Fubuki

Genres From Up On Poppy Hill : Drama,Animation,Kids & Family,Art House & International

Visitor Ranting & Critics For From Up On Poppy Hill

User Ranting From Up On Poppy Hill : 3.7
User Percentage For From Up On Poppy Hill : 75 %
User Count Like for From Up On Poppy Hill : 3,337
All Critics Ranting For From Up On Poppy Hill : 7.2
All Critics Count For From Up On Poppy Hill : 38
All Critics Percentage For From Up On Poppy Hill : 79 %

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Movie Overview For From Up On Poppy Hill
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 â€œI pray for safe voyagesâ€. 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.

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Review For From Up On Poppy Hill

Is there a Japanese word that combines "pretty," "demure" and "boring"?
Colin Covert-Minneapolis Star Tribune

Both genuinely emotional and blithely engaging.
John Anderson-Newsday

The film maintains an optimistic tone without succumbing to nostalgia, and as always with Studio Ghibli, the company Miyazaki cofounded in the 80s, the hand-drawn animation is gorgeous.
Ben Sachs-Chicago Reader

Your kids may well fall in love with it, if you help them find it.
Michael Phillips-Chicago Tribune

The artistry is peaceful and comforting to the eyes but not especially stirring. Given the pictorial extremes that Studio Ghibli has gone to in the past, "Up on Poppy Hill" is weak tea.
Roger Ebert-Chicago Sun-Times

Likely to appeal to young audiences - especially teenagers - and possibly even to jaded adults, who may look back on their own first yearnings of puppy love with nostalgia and affection.
Bruce Demara-Toronto Star

[A] study of how the tolls of war reverberate through generations.
Mark Dujsik-Mark Reviews Movies

Poppy Hill is more a short story than a feature, almost unbelievably optimistic, but it offers a surprising, innocent window on an era usually associated with nuclear anxieties, cultural neuroses, and juvenile delinquents.
Sean Axmaker-Seattle Weekly

Not the most enthralling Studio Ghibli animated feature, but the restrained story of a boy, a girl, and their beloved high school campus, circa 1963 in Yokohama, nevertheless creeps up on us emotionally in the best Ghibli fashion.
Kelly Vance-East Bay Express

Sunny days, blue skies, and rippling blue waters lined with greenery...Plain nice, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Peter Canavese-Groucho Reviews

The studio's stunning textures and vibrant details still give Poppy Hill that ethereal quality sure to mollify nostalgic Ghibli fans, but its strengths are fastidiously undone by a predictable and underwhelming plot.
Manori Ravindran-National Post

A full awareness that it's kind of a cheap melodrama (one of the characters even says so) doesn't change the fact that it is but the young Miyazaki's visual palette is notably beautiful and the voice work is strong throughout.
Brian Tallerico-HollywoodChicago.com

From Up On Poppy Hill is at once old-fashioned and innovative, an exquisite evocation of Yokohama in 1963 that dares to treat teenagers with both gravity and grace.
Michael Sragow-Orange County Register

The film shows the younger Miyazaki going off in a new, slightly older-skewing direction while still firmly working in the gentle hand-drawn style with which the old man has been dazzling filmgoers for decades.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)-St. Paul Pioneer Press

Based on the jolly, jazzy score that keeps From Up on Poppy Hill lively, the latest from Studio Ghibli appears to have missed its calling as a Broadway musical.
Matt Pais-RedEye

With its modest story and lack of cute magical furballs, From Up on Poppy Hill is a tad too uneventful and prosaic to match the best of Studio Ghibli but it's lovely all the same.
Jason Anderson-The Grid

The screenplay deftly balances the characters' intimate concerns with the nation's historic growing pains, resulting in a story that's as engrossing as the visuals are breathtaking.
Alonso Duralde-The Wrap

Gorgeously animated, with rich color scapes and detailed mise-en-scène, Goro Miyazaki's sophomore outing incorporates lovely, introspective imagery of, say, a cloud passing in front of the moon or smokestacks shot at a steep angle.
Annlee Ellingson-Paste Magazine