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# From Up on Poppy Hill

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From Up on Poppy Hill

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A masterpiece of Miyazaki-style animation with an engaging story that transcends culture and time
  

*by W***D on Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2013*

(Note:  this is a review of the movie, not of the DVD. Based on other reviews, I would advise potential buyers to be cautious about the quality of the specific DVD being sold.)From Up on Poppy Hill (Kokuriko-zaka Kara) is nothing less than the best Studio Ghibli film since 2004's Howl's Moving Castle, possibly even since 2001's Spirited Away.  Directed by Goro Miyazaki from a screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, From Up on Poppy Hill is based on a 1980 serialized Japanese graphic novel of the same name, illustrated by Chizuru Takahashi and written by Tetsuro Sayama.  The animation is lush and lovingly detailed, and the story an engaging tale of two high school students dealing with first love and with the importance of the past, both on a cultural and institutional level, and, as it turns out, on an intimately personal level as well.The story is set in 1963 in the port town of Yokahama in Japan in 1963 against the backdrop of the country getting ready to host the 1964 Olympic Games.  Umi Matsuzaki is a sixteen-year-old high school girl living with her family and a couple of boarders in a house on top of a hill that overlooks the harbor. Her mother Ryoko, a medical professor, is currently away, studying abroad in the United States. In her mother's absence, Umi runs the house and looks after her younger siblings, Sora and Riku, and her grandmother, Hana. The boarders, both women, are an artistic college student named Sachiko Hirokouji and a doctor-in-training named Miki Hokuto. Umi's father, we learn, died many years ago when Umi was quite young, killed when his cargo ship hit a mine during the Korean War.  As a kind of ritual to his memory, each morning Umi raises a set of naval signal flags up a flagpole outside the house with the message "Safe Voyage" to the ships out in the harbor.One day, an anonymous poem about the flags appears in the school newspaper. Curious, Umi decides to visit the school newspaper to ask who wrote the poem. The school paper is published out of an office located in a delapidated old building on the school grounds nick-named "the Latin Quarter" which houses all of the school clubs and has done so for as long as anyone can remember. But the Latin Quarter is now endangered by a plan to tear it down and replace it with a brand new building as part of Japan's modernization program to put on its best face for the upcoming Olympics, a move that has the students divided between those who want everything to be new and those who have an emotional attachment to the old and traditional, which they see embodied by their beloved Latin Quarter.On the way to visit the paper's office, Umi, accompanied by Sora, witness another student, Shun Kazama, performing a daredevil stunt to get publicity for the paper's "Save the Latin Quarter" drive. Umi is somewhat less than impressed by Shun's feat, but when she reaches the school paper office, she discovers that Shun, along with his friend Shiro Mizunuma who is the student government president, is the publisher of the school paper (and also, as she learns later, the author of the poem about her flags). Before she knows it, Umi is volunteering to help, first with the paper, preparing stencils, and then soon with their drive to save the Latin Quarter. She suggests that the best way to start would be to give the building a complete facelift, first with a thorough cleaning and then with much needed repairs and a fresh paint job. In this cause, Umi enlists the school's female student population, which in turn gets the male students guickly - and enthusiastically - on board.As they work together, Umi and Shun start feeling a growing attraction to each other. But the path of young love is rarely smooth, and theirs is thrown for a bigger curve than most when Umi shows Shun a photograph of three young naval men, one of whom is her deceased father. But Shun has seen this photograph before, and suddenly a past neither of them were previously aware of begins to assert itself, complicating their budding relationship before it's properly begun. From that point on, the twin plot threads - of Umi and Shun and their pasts and of the students' crusade to save the Latin Quarter - are subtly intertwined. To say more would be to spoil the story.The animation in From Up on Poppy Hill is wonderfully detailed and executed in so many ways it would take a long time to properly describe them. The Latin Quarter clubhouse is a marvel of clutter, completely believable as the sort of old place whose every corner would be filled with incredibly varied bric-a-brac due to the myriad kind of clubs it houses (and going for years without a proper cleaning because that's not typically a high priority with most boys).Another thing I particularly liked were the subtle changes in the backgrounds as evening approached in some scenes; you could feel the sun slowly beginning to set with the ever-so-slight lengthening of shadows and changes in the hue of the sky. Equal detail was given to the way the characters moved and the things they did. In one scene, when Umi is preparing dinner, she pours the rice into a square box, then carefully runs a flat edge over the top to level it so that the amount measured out is exact. It's a minor detail not dwelled upon, but one of many similar ones that give the film a depth of reality rarely found in most animated films.Highly, highly recommended for anyone who loves beautiful animation, engaging characters and truly first-class story-telling that never condescends to its audience.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Beautiful Animation and Story
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2013*

"From Up on Poppy Hill" was definitely under my radar.  I am a Miyazaki fan and I eagerly await anything from this illustrious studio.  Yet somehow I missed the US theatrical release of this film.  I only discovered this Japanese language DVD on Amazon.  It is a film by Goro Miyazaki son of Hiyao Miyazaki the world's greatest animator.  The elder Miyazaki did contribute to the story but Goro is the director.One thing a viewer should understand, Japanese animation is not necessarily a child's medium.  This film touches on things your six year old will not understand.  This is a `PG' film not `G'.This is a period piece set in Yokohoma, Japan.  The year is 1963. World War II has been over for almost twenty years.  The current generation is coming of age.  With the Olympics coming to Japan in 1964, there is a huge push to show the world a new Japan.  It's time to set old things aside and usher in the new era.Umi  Matsuzaki is 16 years old.  She lives in an old hospital owned by her family overlooking the harbor.  Her medical professor mother is training in the US.  She lives with her grandmother, three borders and her younger brother and sister.  Despite the presence of the grandmother, Umi is the true head of household, preparing meals, doing laundry, keeping the books, etc.  Her one eccentricity is each morning, she raises maritime signal flags in a ritual honoring her late father, a supply ship officer killed during the Korean War.At her school, Konan Academy, she finds out someone has been watching her morning ritual when she reads an anonymous poem in the school paper.  It seems she has an anonymous admirer. On the campus of the school is a large old building called the Latin Quarter.  It is used by the boys of the school as a club house for their various extracurricular activities including the school paper.  The school's board is considering demolishing the building a move objected to by the Student Body President Shiro Muzunuma and his best friend Shun Kazama, son of a tugboat captain.  At lunch, the Shun performs a daring stunt seen by most of the students to promote their protest.In the instant he jumps his eyes connect with Umi.  While this can't possibly be the first time they see each other, it is the first time they really see each other.  A connection is made and it is the beginning of their romance.  But Shun is adopted and the story of his origin could derail this relationship before it really gets started.....This is a Japanese film done in traditional hand-drawn animation.  It is absolutely beautiful. I really wish I'd seen this on a big screen.  Being forced to read the subtitles do not take away from the cinematic experience.There are cultural as well as temporal differences.  Remember this is a period piece.  The children wear uniforms to school.  The amount of detail is incredible. Light and shadow in the animation imitates life.  Shun's father stands at the wheel of his tugboat erect (like the former naval petty officer he'd been).  His eyes miss nothing and he turns the wheel with confidence and no wasted motion.Shiro is a subtle character.  He is a brilliant student academically as well as socially.  He runs the student body and misses nothing. Shun is his best friend and partner in all his endeavors.  The boys complement each other.  Shiro is cool, calm, caring but calculating.  Shun is bold, dashing and courageous.This relationship is best illustrated during a spirited student debate over whether or not to demolish the Latin Quarter.  It's also the most hilarious scene in the film.  Don't worry I won't spoil it for you.....The romance between Umi and Shun is the centerpiece of the film.  These are high school students in 1963.  There is latent sexual tension but that is not the point of this relationship.  This is the love we feel when we are happy just being together.  They are afraid to touch each other. But they hate to be apart.  Goro Miyazaki has his father's talent for romantic scenes.  Randomly meeting Umi on the street, Shun gives her a ride on his bicycle.  I know that does not sound like much but when you see it in the movie you will understand the emotional impact of this scene.Anyway I think I have written enough.  If you are looking for space aliens, car crashes or alien invaders this is not the movie you want.  However, if you want to see quality animation, intelligent characters that you grow to know and love and a great film, this is something you should see.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
    Excellent
  
  

*by M***K on Reviewed in France on December 19, 2023*

Livraison impeccable et dans les temps, comme souvent, MERCI Amazon.En ce qui concerne ce film d'animation : j'ai adoré, image et son superbe, et scénario plein d'émotions.

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