Wednesday, April 1, 2015

From Up On Poppy Hill 2011


From Up on Poppy Hill


     The setting is 1963 in Yokohama and Japan is preparing for the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics.  Umi and Shun are in school and they are trying to save a dilapidated clubhouse called the Latin Quarter from demolition.  They are working together and starting to like each other when they learn they really may be brother and sister?  This is a significant blow and they need to work together on this new project to find out the truth.
     Umi has a lot of responsibilities for her age while her mother is in the United States but she manages to help run the family boarding house and take care of her two younger siblings.  Her grandmother is also there to help and is paying another woman to help Umi.  How many American teens could do all this and not complain too?  3* (This movie is OK)

91 min, Animation directed by Goro Miyazaki with the voices of Jamie Lee Curtis, Beau Bridges, Bruce Dern, Sarah Bolger, Isabelle Fuhrman, Haruza Shiraishi, Masami Nagasawa, Anton Yelchin, Christina Hendricks.

Note:  Imdb 7.4 out of 10, 83% critic 78% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*.
Special Note:  This film is directed by Goro in collaboration with his father Hayao and it was Japan’s top earning movie of 2011.






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