Synopsis
Two high schoolers find hope as they fight to save an old wartime era clubhouse from destruction during the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
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Cast
- Masami NagasawaUmi Matsuzaki (voice)
- Junichi OkadaShun Kazama / Yuichiro Sawamura (voice)
- Keiko TakeshitaHana Matsuzaki (voice)
- Yuriko IshidaMiki Hokuto (voice)
- Rumi HiiragiSachiko Hirokôji (voice)
- Jun FubukiRyoko Matsuzaki (voice)
- Takashi NaitoYoshio Onodera (voice)
- Shunsuke KazamaShirô Mizunuma / Hiroshi Tachibana (voice)
- Nao OmoriAkio Kazama (voice)
- Teruyuki KagawaTokumaru Rijichô (voice)
Recommandations
- 100
Los Angeles Times
From Up on Poppy Hill is frankly stunning, as beautiful a hand-drawn animated feature as you are likely to see. It's a time-machine dream of a not-so-distant past, a sweet and honestly sentimental story that also represents a collaboration between the greatest of Japanese animators and his up-and-coming son. - 83
The A.V. Club
It’s all lovely and sweet, and while this story might’ve been just as engaging in live action, Miyazaki’s animation does clear away the extraneous detail, re-creating the world of 50 years ago and instilling it with the poignancy of a family snapshot. - 80
Time Out
From Up on Poppy Hill — cowritten by Miyazaki, and directed by his son Goro — shows a different side of the Japanese animation house, one that finds equal wonder in comparatively mundane affairs. - 80
Village Voice
This film's gentle storytelling manages to extract the emotional payoffs of melodrama without ruining one's suspension of disbelief. - 80
The New York Times
This movie...is a lovely example of the strong realist tendency in Japanese animation. Its visual magic lies in painterly compositions of foliage, clouds, architecture and water, and its emotional impact comes from the way everyday life is washed in the colors of memory. - 75
New York Post
It’s a film heavily dependent on tone and atmosphere for its charm, the budding relationship shown through things like a lovely twilight bike ride down a hill to the shops below. - 65
NPR
It's the warm tenor of the film that ultimately rescues it. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
It’s a lovely film, a sentimental parable that carefully recreates a post-war Japan obsessed with obliterating its past.
