

Later, Shun convinces the other students to renovate the building after a debate on the future of the Quartier Latin, which may be demolished. Umi learns that Shun publishes the school newspaper, along with ShirÅ Mizunuma, the school's student government president. Umi later accompanies Sora to obtain Shun's autograph at the Quartier Latin, an old and dilapidated building housing the high school's clubs. At school, Umi meets Shun when he participates in a daredevil stunt for the newspaper, leaving Umi with a negative first impression. Shun Kazama, the poem's author and a member of the journalism club, witnesses the flags from sea as he rides a tugboat to school. One day, a poem about the flags being raised is published in the school newspaper. Each morning, Umi raises a set of signal flags with the message "I pray for safe voyages". College student Sachiko Hirokouji and doctor-in-training Miki Hokuto also live there. Umi runs the house and looks after her younger siblings Sora and Riku and her grandmother, Hana.

Her mother Ryoko is a medical professor studying abroad in the United States. Umi Matsuzaki is a 16-year-old student at Isogo High School living in Coquelicot Manor, a boarding house overlooking the Port of Yokohama in Japan. An English version of the film was distributed by GKIDS it was released to theaters on Main North America. The film received positive reviews from most film critics and grossed $61 million worldwide. However, Tokumaru, the chairman of the local high school and a businessman, inten ds to demolish the building for redevelopment and Umi and Shun, along with ShirÅ Mizunuma, must persuade him to reconsider.įrom Up on Poppy Hill premiered on Jin Japan. When Umi meets Shun Kazama, a member of the school's newspaper club, they decide to clean up the school's clubhouse, Quartier Latin. Set in 1963 Yokohama, Japan, the film tells the story of Umi Matsuzaki, a high school girl living in a boarding house, Coquelicot Manor. The film stars the voices of Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida, Jun Fubuki, Takashi Naito, Shunsuke Kazama, Nao Omori and Teruyuki Kagawa. It is based on the 1980 serialized Japanese comic of the same name illustrated by Chizuru Takahashi and written by TetsurÅ Sayama. "From Coquelicot Hill") is a 2011 Japanese animated drama film directed by GorÅ Miyazaki, scripted by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, and produced by Studio Ghibli.
