The film sees Gor? Miyazaki return behind the camera for the first time since 2006’s Tales from Earthsea, directing from a script co-written by his father and Ghibli co-founder, Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro), and Keiko Niwa (Tales from Earthsea, Arrietty), based on the original manga by Tetsur? Sayama and Chizuru Takahashi. The film’s rich and vibrant animation captures the entrancing beauty of Yokohama’s harbour and lush surrounding hillsides and, with a soundtrack that draws inspiration from the finest music of the time, perfectly captures the thrills of young romance and the hope of a new dawn.” As the country begins to pick itself up from the devastation of the Second World War, the new generation struggles to move towards a prosperous future whilst trying not to lose the essence of their past. “Set in Yokohama, From Up On Poppy Hill is a high school love story that take place in the year before the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Before then, however, the film is set to have a limited-engagement release in LA for an Academy Award-qualifying run this November, and now the first English language-subbed trailer has made its way online. Their latest feature, Kokuriko-zaka Kara (From Up On Poppy Hill), was released in Japan last summer and won the Best Animated Feature at the Japanese equivalent of the Oscars, and will be reaching our shores in the UK and US next year.

For decades, Studio Ghibli has been one of the best-loved and most well-known animation studios in the world, second only in recognition to Disney/Pixar.

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