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From up on Poppy Hill

Miyazaki, Goro
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Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the Olympics. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun, but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart. From a screenplay by Academy Awardʼ winner Hayao Miyazaki and featuring an all-star English voice cast!

MPAA rating: PG for mild thematic elements and some incidental smoking images.|||adolescent

Studio Ghibli ; screenplay by Keiko Niwa, Hayao Miyazaki; director, Goro Miyazaki.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2011.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

Bonus features: Behind the microphone ; Interview with Goro Miyazaki ; Yokohama featurette ; music video ; original theatrical trailers.

Voices: Aubrey Plaza, Christina Hendricks, Sarah Bolger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Dern, Gillian Anderson.

DVD; Dolby digital 5.0 and 2.0; anamorphic wide screen (1.85:1); region 1.

Japanese, English or French dialogue; English or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).

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