# From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

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**Original title**: *コクリコ坂から*
**Runtime**: 91 min
**Genres**: Animation, Drama
**Directed by**: Goro Miyazaki
**Written by**: Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa
**Starring**: Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida, Rumi Hiiragi, Jun Fubuki

> *Let’s walk facing upwards.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The 1964 Olympics inspire a Yokohama high schooler to save her boarding house while Skyping her ship captain father. When a lit class crushes her again her ghost-writer brother the cautious reunion chills. One 1960s teen romance keeps the neighborhood's past afloat.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, tender

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