From Up on Poppy Hill

From Up on Poppy Hill
A girl is raising the flags while a tugboat sails in the ocean. To her left is the title in red letters and below her is the film's release date and production credits. The artwork is done in a watercolor style.
Theatrical release poster by Hayao Miyazaki
Japanese name
Kanjiコクリコ坂から
Literal meaningFrom Coquelicot Hill
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnKokuriko-zaka Kara
Directed byGorō Miyazaki
Screenplay by
Based onKokuriko-zaka kara
by Chizuru Takahashi
Tetsurō Sayama
Produced byToshio Suzuki
Starring
CinematographyAtsushi Okui
Edited byTakeshi Seyama
Music bySatoshi Takebe
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • July 16, 2011 (2011-07-16) (Japan)
Running time
92 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget
  • ¥2.2 billion
  • ($22 million)[2]
Box office
  • $61.5 million (Worldwide)[3][4]
  • ¥4.5 billion (Japan)[5]

From Up on Poppy Hill (Japanese: コクリコ坂から, Hepburn: Kokuriko-zaka Kara, lit. 'From Coquelicot Hill') is a 2011 Japanese animated drama film directed by Gorō Miyazaki, written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, and Toho, and distributed by the latter company. It is based on the 1980 serialized manga of the same name illustrated by Chizuru Takahashi and written by Tetsurō Sayama. The film stars the voices of Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida, Jun Fubuki, Takashi Naito, Shunsuke Kazama, Nao Ōmori and Teruyuki Kagawa.

Set in 1963 Yokohama, Japan, the film tells the story of Umi Matsuzaki (Nagasawa), a high school girl living in an old hospital turned boarding house, the 'Coquelicot Manor'. When Umi meets Shun Kazama (Okada), a member of the school's newspaper club, they decide to clean up the school's clubhouse, the 'Latin Quarter'. However, Tokumaru (Kagawa), the chairman of the local school board and a businessman, intends to demolish the building for redevelopment for the 1964 Summer Olympics, Umi and Shun, along with class president Shirō Mizunuma (Kazama), must persuade Tokumaru to reconsider.

From Up on Poppy Hill premiered on July 16, 2011, in Japan. It received positive reviews from most film critics and grossed $61 million worldwide. An English version was distributed by GKIDS; it was released to theaters on March 15, 2013, in North America.[6]

  1. ^ "FROM UP ON POPPY HILL (U)". British Board of Film Classification. April 24, 2013. Archived from the original on May 4, 2013. Retrieved April 24, 2013.
  2. ^ Robles, Manuel (2013). Antología Studio Ghibli: Volumen 2. Barcelona: Dolmen Editorial. p. 73. ISBN 978-8415296935. Archived from the original on October 15, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2013.
  3. ^ "From Up on Poppy Hill (2013)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on April 20, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
  4. ^ ""From Up on Poppy Hill" Foreign Total Gross". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on November 10, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
  5. ^ "Box Office Leaders". Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  6. ^ Hopewell, John; Keslassy, Elsa (June 5, 2012). "GKIDS plants N. American flag on Poppy Hill". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved June 6, 2012.