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From Up on Poppy Hill
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Title: From Up on Poppy Hill

Release Date: 16 Jul 2011

Runtime: 1h 31m

Genre: Animation, Drama

Director: Studio Ghibli, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Mitsubishi, KDDI, Kodansha, Mitsubishi Corporation

Production Companies: Studio Ghibli, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Mitsubishi, KDDI, Kodansha, Mitsubishi Corporation

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 7.534 (1768 votes)

Cast

  • Umi Matsuzaki (voice): Masami Nagasawa
  • Shun Kazama / Yuichiro Sawamura (voice): Junichi Okada
  • Hana Matsuzaki (voice): Keiko Takeshita
  • Miki Hokuto (voice): Yuriko Ishida
  • Sachiko Hirokoji (voice): Rumi Hiiragi
  • Ryoko Matsuzaki (voice): Jun Fubuki
  • Yoshio Onodera (voice): Takashi Naito
  • Shiro Mizunuma / Hiroshi Tachibana (voice): Shunsuke Kazama
  • Akio Kazama (voice): Nao Ômori
  • Tokumaru Rijicho (voice): Teruyuki Kagawa
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