From Up on Poppy Hill

From Up on Poppy Hill
Theatrical release poster by Hayao Miyazaki
Japanese name
Kanji	コクリコ坂から
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Kokuriko-zaka Kara
Directed by	Gorō Miyazaki
Screenplay by	Hayao Miyazaki Keiko Niwa
Based on	Kokuriko-zaka kara by Chizuru Takahashi Tetsurō Sayama
Produced by	Toshio Suzuki
Starring	Masami Nagasawa Junichi Okada Keiko Takeshita Yuriko Ishida Jun Fubuki Takashi Naito Shunsuke Kazama Nao Omori Teruyuki Kagawa
Cinematography	Atsushi Okui
Edited by	Takeshi Seyama
Music by	Satoshi Takebe
Production company	Studio Ghibli
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	July 16, 2011 (2011-07-16) (Japan)
Running time	92 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
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 a boarding house, '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 high school and a businessman, intends to demolish the building for redevelopment for the 1964 Summer Olympics and Umi and Shun, along with Shirō Mizunuma (Kazama), must persuade him 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]