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From Up On Poppy Hill (movie)

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©2011 Chizuru Takahashi • Tetsuro Sayama • GNDHDDT


[ adapted from Kokuriko-Zaka Kara (manga) ]
Alternative title:
Kokuriko-Zaka Kara (Japanese)
La Colina de las Amapolas (Spanish)
La Colline aux coquelicots (French)
Từ đồi Hồng anh [Vietnamese]
Uppe på vallmokullen (Swedish)
コクリコ坂から (Japanese)
來自紅花坂 (Chinese (Taiwan))
紅花坂上的海 (Chinese (Hong Kong))
Genres: drama, romance
Themes: school
Objectionable content: None
Plot Summary: Umi Matsuzaka, the eldest sibling in a close-knit family of five, raises a pair of signal flags everyday at her seaside house in Yokohama Bay without fail in anticipation of the return of her father, who went missing in action during the Korean War. In school, Umi finds herself involved in a student movement seeking to prevent the demolition of an old club house. In the process, she falls in love with the newspaper club president Jun Kazama, only to find out that they might be related by blood. 
User Ratings: 218 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 27 votes (sub:24, dub:3)
 Excellent: 69 votes (sub:58, dub:3, raw:1, others:7
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Arabic subtitled
1 Mandarin subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Finnish dubbed
)
 Very good: 64 votes (sub:54, dub:6, raw:2, ?:1, others:1
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Good: 40 votes (sub:34, dub:2, ?:1, others:3
1 Chinese (Taiwan) subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Decent: 11 votes (sub:9, dub:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Not really good: -
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 297 users, rank: #2043 (of 5563)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.174 (Very good+), std. dev.: 1.2366, rank: #337 (of 5554)
Weighted mean: 8.127 (Very good), rank: #307 (of 5554) (seen all: 8.13)
Bayesian estimate: 8.099 (Very good), rank: #217 (of 4226)
Running time: 91 minutes
Vintage: 2011-07-04
Premiere date:
2011-07-16 (Japan)
2011-11-25 (Taiwan)
2012-01-11 (France)
2012-09-13 (Australia, Reel Anime)
2012-12-21 (Sweden)
Ending Theme:
"Sayonara no Natsu ~Kokuriko-zaka kara~" (さよならの夏~コクリコ坂から~) by Aoi Teshima
Insert song:
"Asagohan no Uta" (朝ごはんの歌) by Aoi Teshima
"Hatsukoi no Koro" (初恋の頃) by Aoi Teshima
"Kon'iro no Uneri ga" (紺色のうねりが) by Aoi Teshima
"Ue o Muitearukō" (上を向いて歩こう) by Kyū Sakamoto
Official website:
コクリコ坂から 公式サイト (Japanese)
Trivia: We have 5
Review:
From Up On Poppy Hill (Dec 20, 2011)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Goro Miyazaki
Screenplay:
Hayao Miyazaki
Keiko Niwa
Music: Satoshi Takebe
Original Concept: Kenji Miyazawa ("Kon'iro no Uneri ga")
Original creator:
Chizuru Takahashi
Tetsurō Sayama
Character Design: Katsuya Kondo
Animation Director:
Akihiko Yamashita
Atsushi Yamagata
Kitaro Kousaka
Producer: Toshio Suzuki

Insert Song Arrangement:
Hachidai Nakamura ("Ue o Muitearukō")
Satoshi Takebe
Insert Song Composition:
Hachidai Nakamura ("Ue o Muitearukō")
Hiroko Taniyama
Insert Song Lyrics:
Goro Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki ("Kon'iro no Uneri ga")
Hiroko Taniyama ("Asagohan no Uta", "Hatsukoi no Koro")
Rokusuke Ei ("Ue o Muitearukō")
Insert Song Performance:
Aoi Teshima
Kyu Sakamoto
Key Animation:
Atsuko Tanaka
Ei Inoue
Hideki Hamasu
Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Hiroomi Yamakawa
Hiroyuki Aoyama
Makiko Futaki
Megumi Kagawa
Sachiko Sugino
Shigeru Fujita
Shinji Otsuka
Taichi Furumata
Takashi Hashimoto
Takeshi Honda
Music Performance:
Hitoshi Konno (Violin)
Machi Okabe (Violin)
Masahiko Tōdō (Violin)
Naoko Ishibashi (Violin)
Naomi Urushibara (Violin)
Sachie Ōnuma (Viola)
Takahiro Yūki (Cello)
Tomomi Tokunaga (Violin)
Tomoyuki Asakawa (Harp)
Planning: Hayao Miyazaki
Theme Song Arrangement: Satoshi Takebe
Theme Song Composition: Kôichi Sakata
Theme Song Lyrics: Yukiko Marimura
Theme Song Performance: Aoi Teshima
Junichi Okada as Shun Kazama
Masami Nagasawa as Umi Matsuzaki

Haruka Shiraishi as Sora Matsuzaki
Jun Fubuki as Ryōko Matsuzaki
Keiko Takeshita as Hana Matsuzaki
Nao Omori as Akio Kazama
Rumi Hiiragi as Sachiko Hirokōji
Shunsuke Kazama as Shirō Mizunuma
Takashi Naito as Yoshio Onodera
Teruyuki Kagawa as President Tokumaru
Tsubasa Kobayashi as Riku Matsuzaki
Yuriko Ishida as Miki Hokuto
Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
Director: Gary Rydstrom
Script:
Karey Kirkpatrick
Patrick Mullen 
Executive producer:
Frank Marshall
Kathleen Kennedy
Producer: Geoffrey Wexler

Additional Dialogue: Patrick Mullen
ADR Mixing:
Nick Bozzone
Tim West
ADR Recording:
Kevin Falsey
Kevin McAlpine
Kyle Krajewski
Assistant Re-recording Mixer: Tony Villaflor
Co-Producer: Robyn Klein
Dialogue Editing:
Brian Chumney
Steve Orlando
Re-Recording Mixing: Gary Summers
Recordist: Stephen Urata
Supervising ADR Mixer: Michael Miller
Supervising Sound Editor: Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Voice Casting: Holly Dorff Long
Anton Yelchin as Shun Kazama
Sarah Bolger as Umi Matsuzaki

Aubrey Plaza as Sachiko Hirokōji
Beau Bridges as Chairman Tokumaru
Bruce Dern as Yoshio Onodera
Chris Noth as Akio Kazama
Christina Hendricks as Saori Makimura
Gillian Anderson as Hana Matsuzaki
Jamie Lee Curtis as Ryoko Matsuzaki
Ron Howard as Philosophy Club President

Alex Wolff
Charlie Saxton
Emily Osment
Isabelle Fuhrman
Jeff Dunham
Ronan Farrow
English companies
Distributor:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)
New Video Group (USA)
Licensed by: GKids
Korean staff
Korean cast
(none)
Doh-hyeong Nam as Shiro Mizunuma
Korean companies
(none)
French cast
French staff
Alexandra Garijo as Umi Matsuzaki
Rémi Bichet as Shun Kazama

Adeline Chetail as No
Anneliese Fromont as Makimura
Annie Bertin as Hana
Brigitte Virtudes as Tomoko
Celia Charpentier as Nobuko
Christophe Lemoine as Chef philosophe
Emmanuel Lemire as Gen
Gautier Battout as Yamazaki
Ingrid Donnadieu as Miki Hokuto
Jérôme Wiggins as Professeur
Maeva Méline as Yûko
Maxime Bailleul as Sawamura
Nathalie Duverne as Ryoko Matsuzaki
Nathalie Homs as Sachiko Hirokôji
Patrick Melennec as Président Tokumaru
Patrick Raynal as Yoshio Onodera
Pauline Brunner as Sora Matsuzaki
Rémi Caillebot as Shirô Mizunuma
Rémi Pous as Akio Kazama
Thierry D'Armor as Chef des débats
Warren Homs as Riku Matsuzaki
French companies
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Dubbing Director: Arturo Velez

Music Director: Luis Leonardo Suárez
Musical Adaptation: Luis Leonardo Suárez
Adriana Rodriguez as Miki Hokuto
Arturo Cataño as Shun Kazama
Cecilia Gómez as Sora Matsuzaki
Clemen Larumbe as Ryoko Matsuzaki
Héctor Rocha as Yoshio Onodera
Jesus Barrero as Shiro Mizunuma
Jocelyn Robles as Umi Matsuzaki
Linda Herold as Sachiko Hirokouji
Luis Leonardo Suárez as Shiro Mizunuma (Songs)
Magdalena Leonel as Hana Matsuzaki
Mario Hernandez as Director Tokumaru
Victor Covarrubias as Akio Kazama
Viviana Armas as Nobuko Yokoyama

Marisol Castro
Spanish companies
Dubbing Studio: Elefante Films
DVD Distribution: Zima Entertaiment (December 2012)
Chinese (Hong Kong) staff
Chinese (Hong Kong) companies
(none)
Chinese (Hong Kong) cast
(none)
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