From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
Release Date
2011-07-16
Rating
8
Duration
91 min
Countries
Keywords
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
Qualities
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.
