From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) on Netflix
PG20111h 31mAnimationDramaFamilyRomance
In 1963 Yokohama, Umi Matsuzaki hoists signal flags above her family's boarding house. Shun Kazama writes a poem about them, and the Latin Quarter, their school's clubhouse, faces demolition.
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- Rotten Tomatoes87%
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Plot summary
Umi Matsuzaki runs Coquelicot Manor, a boarding house above the Port of Yokohama, while her mother Ryoko, a medical professor, studies in the United States. Umi looks after her younger siblings and her grandmother, and each morning she hoists signal flags that ask for safe voyages. Shun Kazama, who publishes the Konan Academy newspaper with student government president Shirō Mizunuma, writes a poem about the flags. The Latin Quarter, the building that houses the school's clubs, is threatened with demolition. Tokumaru, chairman of the school board, wants it redeveloped for the 1964 Olympics.
Cast
- Tsubasa Kobayashias Riku Matsuzaki (voice)
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- Ayako Itoas Secretary to the Tokumaru Board Chairman (voice)
- Toshimi Kannoas Nobuko (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
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- Rolling blackouts after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disrupted From Up on Poppy Hill's animation, forcing the team to work through the night; the film stood at about 50% complete instead of over 70%. Hayao Miyazaki insisted the studio still release it on July 16, 2011 as planned, calling that their responsibility.
- The 1961 song "Ue o Muite Arukō", better known in English-speaking countries as "Sukiyaki" and performed by Kyu Sakamoto, was chosen as an insert song for From Up on Poppy Hill because the film is set in 1963, the year the song debuted and became a hit in America.
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