Collection: From Up on Poppy Hill

From Up On Poppy Hill, movie by studio Ghibli Movie. Studio Ghibli, known for its accomplished and beautiful animated films over the decades, is truly one of a kind. This film is directed by Goro Miyazaki which was adapted from the 1986 shoujo manga series with the same name, by Tatsumi Yoshino. Its focus is on two teenagers who live in Yokohama: Umi Matsuzaki and Shun Kazama

In Japan, 1963, Umi is a high school girl from Yokohama who lives with her mother and two sisters. Since her father disappeared at sea during the Korean War, she has made it a habit to hoist navy flags in front of her house every day. One day, she reads a poem in her high school newspaper that refers to this ritual. She suspects that Shun, the student representative and editor of the newspaper, is the author.