From Up on Poppy Hill
Genre : Animation | Drama | Family
Release Date : 15 March 2013 (USA)
Director : Goro Miyazaki
Writers : Tetsurô Sayama (original story), Hayao Miyazaki
Stars : Sarah Bolger, Chris Noth, Anton Yelchin
Short Story : A accumulation of Yokohama adolescence attending to save their school's adviser from the accident brawl in affairs for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Set in Yokohama in 1963, the film centers on a high school couple’s innocent love and the secrets surrounding their births. The story takes place in a Japan that 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 new generation struggles to embrace modernity and throw off the shackles of a troubled past. The film's rich color palette and painterly detail capture the beauty of Yokohama's harbor and its lush surrounding hillsides, while the 1960’s pop soundtrack evokes nostalgia for an era of innocence and hope.
