She also tells Umi she knows how much she misses her father and why she raises the flags everyday. After arriving home, Umi goes to see her grandmother who tells her how much she appreciates her hardwork even though they have a maid. In an act of protest Shun jumps off the roof and into the water, when Umi rushes to help him, she realizes this was just for attention and lets him fall into the water again. While the school administration wants to demolish old and dilapidated building, group of students including Shun struggle to preserve it. Meanwhile, at Konan Academy, Umi and Shun's high school in Yokohama, a dispute is raised about the fate of old school's club house called Latin Quartier. Shun meets Umi in a very dramatic fashion. Several of the boarders include Miss Sahurah, Miki a doctor and Sashiko an artist.
A 17-year-old boy, Shun, always sees this flag from the sea as he rides a tugboat to school and responds to them, but Umi doesn't know that. Each morning, she raises a set of signal flags with the message of "I pray for safe voyages". In the town of Yohohama rather than telling the season based on the flowers that are blooming, they can tell what time of year it is by what boats are passing through the harbor. Umi's father has passed away and her mother is in America studying so she helps clean and cook for the boarders and look after her sister and brother. In preparation for the 1964 Summer Olympics to be held in Tokyo, people are destroying remnants of the past because they believe only in the magnificence of the new.Ī 16-year-old girl, Umi Matsuzaki, lives in her grandmother's boarding house called "Coquelicot Manor", which is located on the hill overlooking the harbour of the Port of Yohohama. Umi Matsuzaki raising signal flags in remembrance of her father. In 2010, Kadokawa Shoten released a new edition, and in 2011, the company released a paperback edition. It was released in two volumes by the same publisher. The original manga was serialized in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine from January to August 1980, totaling eight chapters. In addition, the cityscape backgrounds in the latter half of the film are based on Yokohama. The verse was taken from the songbook, From Summer to Autumn. The field is a poppy that shines in the color of fire as far as the eye can see." The author of the original manga, Tetsuro Sayama, was originally a poet, is said to have taken inspiration from Yosano Akiko's tanka (Japanese form of poetry): The first issue of the From Up on Poppy Hill manga serialized in Nakayoshi, a shoujo manga magazine published by KodanshaĬoquelicot is the French word for Poppies.
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Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son, a TV special documenting the film's contentious production was aired on NHK General TV on August 9, 2011. This is also Goro's second film as the director, after his 2006 film Tales from Earthsea and stars the voices of Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida, Jun Fubuki, Takashi Naito, Shunsuke Kazama, Nao Ōmori and Teruyuki Kagawa. This film marks the first joint project between Goro and his father. An English version was distributed by GKIDS it was released to theaters on March 15, 2013, in North America. It received positive reviews from most film critics and grossed $61 million worldwide. The theatrical poster's advertising slogan is "Let's walk facing upwards.".įrom Up on Poppy Hill premiered on July 16, 2011, in Japan. However, Tokumaru, the chairman of the local high school and a businessman, intends to demolish the building for redevelopment and Umi and Shun, along with Shirō Mizunuma, must persuade him to reconsider. When Umi meets Shun Kazama, a member of the school's newspaper club, they decide to clean up the school's clubhouse, Quartier Latin. Set in 1963 Yokohama, Japan, the film tells the story of Umi Matsuzaki, a high school girl living in her grandmother's boarding house called "Coquelicot Manor".
It is based on the 1980 serialized manga of the same name illustrated by Chizuru Takahashi and written by Tetsurō Sayama. It was directed by Goro Miyazaki, written by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. From Up on Poppy Hill ( コクリコ坂から, Kokurikozaka kara, From Coquelicot Hill) is an animated film that was released in Japan by Toho on July 16, 2011.