From Up on Poppy Hill aka Kokuriko-zaka kara (2011)JAPANESE.ro_sub+en_sub-JVaLaMaLiNi.ogv

From Up on Poppy Hill aka Kokuriko-zaka kara (2011)JAPANESE.ro_sub+en_sub-JVaLaMaLiNi.ogv



Animation | Drama | Family | sukiyaki | loss of father | coming of age |

reference to the korean war | olympic games |



Storyline



A group of Yokohama teens look to save their school's clubhouse from the

wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.



Set in Yokohama, Japan just before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Poppy Hill

tells the story of Umi, a second-year high school girl who lives and works

at a tenant house run by her grandmother. Her father was a sailor who

was lost at sea during the Korean War and presumed dead; her mother is

studying in the US and thus also an absent figure for Umi. Every morning

she raises signal flags out on the garden which overlooks the ocean as a

way to remember her lost father, before embarking on a daily routine

rigidly structured around school and the chores she must perform at her

home. One day she runs into a reckless, dashing senior named Shun, and

soon allows her life to open up to the optimism and energy of the teen

idealists who occupy Quartier Latin, a dilapidated school clubhouse where

the more intellectually-disposed male students have set up various

headquarters for their extracurricular activities. Umi helps out Shun with

his newspaper printing, and ends up fighting alongside him and the

occupants of the clubhouse to save Quartier Latin against the forces of

change which holds sway in Japan. Meanwhile, unforeseen revelations

about their families' past force Umi and Shun, who are increasingly drawn

to each other, to reconsider their feelings.



film language is japanese with romanian and english subtitles embedded



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