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From Up On Poppy Hill written by Hayau Miyazaki, and starring the voices of Sarah Bolger, Isabelle Fuhrman and Anton Yelchin is reviewed by Ben Mankiewicz (h...
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From Up on Poppy Hill is a 2011 Japanese animated drama film directed by Gorō Miyazaki, written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, and animated by S...
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- Save The Latin Quarter
- The Earthquake
- *sigh* The Incest
- Conclusion: Hayao and Son
From Up on Poppy Hill is a straightforward, realistic feature for Ghibli, with no sprites or spirits in sight. Besides a few dreamy interludes, the Miyazaki father-son duo keeps the story grounded. Like Isao Takahata’s masterpiece Only Yesterday or Yoshifumi Kondō’s soulful Whisper of the Heart, Gorō’s film is mostly concerned with first love, hear...
Perhaps the abundant nostalgia worked in the film’s favor, though. Just four months before the film’s release on July 16, 2011, tragedy struck Japan. The country experienced its most severe earthquake on record, resulting in a tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In total, nearly 20,000 people died, hundreds of thousands were displac...
Here it is, the conversation we’ve all been dreading. So, the film is based on the shōjomanga From Coquelicot Hill, and I have no idea if the potentially incestuous relationship is in that version of the story or not. Spoilers for Poppy Hill — after 40 minutes spent building up the romance between Shun and Umi, Shun realizes that his father and Umi...
All of Gorō’s films are, to some degree, about his troubled relationship with his dad. You see that in the complex range of father figures throughout Earthsea, Poppy Hill, and Earwig, as well as in how eager Gorō is to break Ghibli tradition and do something wild. Hayao was an absent father, and when Gorō began making films, Hayao was relentlessly ...
Mar 27, 2013 · Based on a story by. Tetsuro Sayama. This was a day I didn't see coming. The latest film from Japan's Studio Ghibli, which sets the world standard for animation, is a disappointment. Directed by Goro Miyazaki, in his first collaboration with his father, the legendary Hayao, "From Up on Poppy Hill" (2011) centers on two likable and perfectly ...
One of them is From Up On Poppy Hill. On the surface is a story of two student activists who fall in love while fighting to keep their high school club’s Latin Quarter from demolition. Of course, with this in mind, the most surprising event in the film is the incest scare. However, this seemingly random plot point feels important in the sense ...
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Mar 14, 2013 · From Up on Poppy Hill, the second feature by Miyazaki's son, Goro Miyazaki — the first was the poorly received 2006 Ursula K. Le Guin adaptation Tales from Earthsea --takes place in a seaside ...
