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Oct 28, 2008 · Lyrics. [Verse 1: Mike Hranica] The concept of fashion. Is the one to blame. Painting the portrait of. Convictionless existence. Well, it must be difficult. Being so gorgeous. [Verse 2: Jeremy ...
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Coquelicot is the French word for Poppies. The author of the original manga, Tetsuro Sayama, was originally a poet, is said to have taken inspiration from Yosano Akiko's tanka(Japanese form of poetry): The verse was taken from the songbook, From Summer to Autumn.In addition, the cityscape backgrounds in the latter half of the film are based on Yoko...
Off to School in the Morning
The story is set in Japan in 1963. In preparation for the 1964 Summer Olympics to be held in Tokyo, people are destroying remnants of the past because they believe only in the magnificence of the new. A 16-year-old girl, Umi Matsuzaki, lives in her grandmother's boarding house called "Coquelicot Manor", which is located on the hill overlooking the harbour of the Port of Yohohama. Umi's father has passed away and her mother is in America studying so she helps clean and cook for the boarders an...
Big Commotion
Meanwhile, at Konan Academy, Umi and Shun's high school, a dispute is raised about the fate of old school's club house called Latin Quartier. While the school administration as well as many students wants to demolish the old and dilapidated building, group of students including Shun struggle to preserve it. In an act of protest Shun jumps off the roof and into the water, when Umi rushes to help him, she realizes this was just for attention as pictures are taken and lets him fall into the wate...
First Love
Gradually Umi and Shun are drawn to each other. During Miki's Good-bye party, Umi explains that her mother, an accomplished professor, had eloped with a sailor when she was younger after her parents disapproved of them together. Umi's father would later teach her how to raise the signal flags to help him find his way back home. Then one day, his ship sank during the Korean War by a mine and his body was never found. However, Umi never stopped raising her father's signal flags, even after she...
In the film, Umi's father was killed when his supply ship was sunk by mines in the Korean War, and Shun's biological father died aboard a repatriation vessel after the end of the Second World War. Following Japan's defeat in the Second World War, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) assumed control over the Japanese merchant marine to...
Origins
Decades before the film's production announcement, Hayao Miyazaki's niece and nephew visited the Miyazaki family mountain cabin and brought along a shojo manga magazine. Miyazaki enjoyed reading through the magazine and considered adapting the manga of From Up on Poppy Hill by Chizuru Takahashi and Tetsurō Sayama. Directors Mamoru Oshii and Hideaki Anno, who were with Miyazaki at the cabin, then began a heated debate on whether the shojogenre would be a good starting point to adapt films. Gor...
Planning
Much like with other Ghibli films, the film is a co-production with Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network, Dentsū, Hakuhōdō DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi Corporation and Tōhō. Production began in July 2010, less than a year until the film's scheduled theatrical release. The collaborative work between Hayao and Gorô is often tense. Thus at the end of July, the father worries about the characterization of the character of Umi Matsuzaki, which he finds too dark, dull and so...
Inspiration
Gorō Miyazaki initially researched Yokohama, intending to be faithful to the city's historical details. The city itself is filled with many slopes, and many gather around shopping districts. the films also recreates places such as Yamashita Park or Hikawa-Maru station. However, after realizing that "simply re-enacting something of the time may seem real enough but may not necessarily be beautiful". Miyazaki decided to show the location as "shimmering and bustling with life" from the viewpoint...
→ See From Up on Poppy Hill/Release From Up on Poppy Hill was released in 457 Japanese cinemas on July 16, 2011. It debuted at third placing in the Japanese box office, behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and the dual-release Pokémon anime film Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom and Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram. It managed ...
Box office
During the survey period between July 16 and 18, 2011, Bunkatsushin.com reported From Up on Poppy Hillhad grossed 587,337,400 yen at the box office, placing third. During these three days, over 445,000 people watched this film. In a survey which was done online and on mobile platforms, it was revealed the ratio of female audience to male audience was 57% to 43%. By age, 34.8% of the audience were in their twenties, 18.9% of them were ages between 16 and 19 years old, and people who were aged...
From Up on Poppy Hill (Song Collection) (コクリコ坂から～歌集 , Kokurikozaka kara~Kashuu) is a compilation of vocal versions of songs from the soundtrack sung by Aoi Teshima. It was released by Yamaha Music Communications on July 6, 2011. From Up on Poppy Hill (Official Soundtrack) (コクリコ坂から サウンドトラック , Kokurikozaka kara Saundotorakku) was released by Tokuma J...
Shun asks his father about his biological father. At that moment a ship, named Kogenai Line, drives past Akio's boat. Line means maru in Japanese. Kogenai Maru is the ship in the film Ponyo. On Yoshio Onodera's ship Koyo Maru Yokohama, there is a cabine "Ghibli" is written on it.
At the first minutes of the film, Shun drives to school and he stops at crossroads. Across from him there is a store with the Coke sign on it. Although the movie takes place in the early 1960s, the "Coke" sign over the store has a swoosh. That didn't become part of the Coca-Cola logo until 1969.
Main changes from the original
1. While the setting and characters are faithful to the original manga, the plotting and narrative structure was completely reorganized. 2. The "Quartier Latin" is a completely original addition to the film. Shun and Mizunuma struggle to protect the Latin Quarter, which is scheduled to be demolished. The film's story greatly focuses on the conservation of the past in the face of modernity. 3. The manga is set during the 1980s while the film is set between May to June 1963. Due to the protract...
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Jun 12, 2010 · Lyrics:The concept of fashion Is the one to blame: Painting the portrait of Conviction-less existence. Well, it must be difficult Being so gorgeous. Well, it...
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Oct 4, 2016 · Here's From Up on Poppy Hill, with Umi, with all the poppies, crows, and signal flags, and the script of the poem that Shun wrote for her. From Up on Poppy Hill (c) Goro Miyazaki / Hayao Miyazaki / Chizuru Takahashi / Tetsuro Sayama. Art (c) me.
Dec 1, 2020 · Until she couldn't no more, A tear fell from her cheek, Yet she stood up, moving forward, With each step she took, She didn't remember, she didn't remember his name, The one she holds close, the one she holds dear, Glancing at her palm, Where I love you was wrote, She nearly fell again,
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