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Please go watch From Up on Poppy Hill if you haven't already
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From Up on Poppy Hill is an animated film directed by Gorō Miyazaki, scripted by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, and produced by Studio Ghibli. You should watch it. I think you'd enjoy it.
Saying Miyazaki isn't enough to interest you to see it? Well here are other films related to Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli:
You haven't watched those? Well, the simple analogy is that Ghibli Films are like Disney Films. Family films aimed for children that people of all ages enjoy. If that's not enough info, I can copy and paste some information from the movie's main page about it:
FROM UP ON POPPY HILL (Kokuriko-zaka kara)
Animation, Goro Miyazaki, Japan, 2011, 91 min
GKIDS is extremely proud to present the highly anticipated new film from Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and many other animated masterpieces. Written by legendary studio founder Hayao Miyazaki and directed by Goro Miyazaki, From Up on Poppy Hill marks the first feature film collaboration between father and son. The results are stunning – a pure, sincere, nuanced and heartfelt film that signals yet another triumph for the esteemed studio.
The setting is Yokohama in 1963, and the filmmakers lovingly bring to life the bustling seaside town, with its misty harbor, sun-drenched gardens, shops and markets, and some of the most mouthwatering Japanese home-cooking set to film. The story centers on an innocent romance beginning to bud between Umi and Shun, two high school kids caught up in the changing times. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics – and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. While the children work together to save a dilapidated Meiji-era club house from demolition, their tentative relationship begins to blossom. But – in an unexpected twist that parallels what the country itself is facing – a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.
More than any Studio Ghibli film, From Up on Poppy Hill embodies a specific time and place and captures the emotional landscape of its setting. The sense of yearning and new possibility is palpable (the upbeat mood is set perfectly by the period pop music), evoking both a wide-eyed hope for the future, and an aching nostalgia for a past that can never be recovered.
Star-filled voice cast includes Gillian Anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Jeff Dunham, Isabelle Fuhrman, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard, Chris Noth, Emily Osment, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Saxton, Alex Wolff and Anton Yelchin. Multiple Academy Award® winner Gary Rydstrom directed the English language version from a script adaptation by Karey Kirkpatrick. Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy executive produced.
It's currently airing in a limited amount of theaters. I was very lucky to have seen it, as I only learned of it from an ad I saw on a random site I never visited prior. I'm pretty late on this, since it started these airings on March 16th! Since it's a Miyazaki film, I thought people would be interested in watching it. Since it has such a limited engagement, I wanted to make a thread to be sure people were aware of it. I enjoyed the movie, and doing a search, others in this forum, others have as well.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/26296725/#Comment_26296725
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/26247352/#Comment_26247352Bogey wrote:So I saw a screening of From Up On Poppy Hill last week and I really enjoyed it!
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/26126273/#Comment_26126273BusterK wrote:From Up on Poppy Hill is good
Rolo wrote:It's quite enjoyable!
Some kinda socially awkward bits in it, but a much better work than Goro's previous Legend of Earthsea.
Again, it's only showing in very few theaters. Here is the current information on showings.
RELEASE SCHEDULE
NOW PLAYING (AS OF 4/12)
New York, NY - IFC Center
New York, NY - Film Society of Lincoln Center
Forest Hills, NY - Cinemart Cinemas
Toronto, ON - TIFF Bell Lightbox
Los Angeles, CA - Laemmle Playhouse
Los Angeles, CA - Landmark Regent
Los Angeles, CA - Laemmle Noho 7
Irvine, CA - Regal Edwards Westpark 8
Lancaster, CA - BLVD Cinemas
Palm Desert/Rancho Mirage, CA - Century Theatres @ The River
San Francisco, CA - Landmark Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA - Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
Berkeley, CA - Landmark Shattuck Cinemas
San Rafael, CA - Cinemark Century Northgate
Mountain View, CA - Cinemark Century Cinema 16
San Jose, CA - Camera 3
Santa Cruz, CA - Nickelodeon Theatre
Point Arena, CA - Arena Theater
Sacramento, CA - Tower Theatre
Roseville, CA - Cinemark Century 14
Chicago, IL - Landmark Century 7
Evanston, IL - CinéArts at Evanston
Minneapolis, MN - Landmark Edina
Seattle, WA - Regal Meridian 16
Seattle, WA - Sundance Cinemas Seattle
Seattle, WA - Majestic Bay Theater
Port Townsend, WA - The Rose Theatre
Boston, MA - Landmark Kendall Square Cinema
Danvers, MA - Hollywood Hits Danvers
Amherst, MA - Amherst Cinema
West Newton, MA - West Newton Cinemas
Denver, CO - Landmark Esquire
Boulder, CO - Cinemark 16 Portland, OR - Regal Fox Tower
Honolulu, HI - Kahala 8
Washington, DC - Regal Gallery Place
Fairfax, VA - Angelika Mosaic
Gaithesburg, MD - AMC Rio Gaithesburg
Silver Spring, MD - Regal Majestic Silver Spring
Omaha, NE - Film Streams Cleveland, OH - Capitol Theatre
Cincinnati, OH - Mariemont Theater
Tempe, AZ - Harkins Valley Art
Tucson, AZ - Loft Cinema
Philadelphia, PA - Landmark Ritz at the Bourse
Houston, TX - Sundance Cinemas
Hartford, CT - Cinema City at the Palace
New Haven, CT - Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas
Waterloo, Canada - Princess Twin
APRIL 19
Austin, TX - Regal Arbor
Dallas, TX - Landmark Magnolia
Plano, TX - Cinemark West Piano
St. Louis, MO - Landmark Plaza Frontenac
Boca Raton, FL - Living Room Boca Raton
Gainesville, FL - Hippodrome Theater
Madison, WI - Sundance Cinemas
Mobile, AL - The Crescent Theater
Millerton, NY - The Moviehouse
Bar Harbor, ME - Reel Pizza & Cinerama
San Luis Obispo, CA - The Palm Theatre
Sebastopol, CA - Rialto Cinemas
Santa Rosa, CA - Summerfield Cinemas
Richmond, VA - Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas at Movieland
Annapolis, MD - Bow Tie Cinemas Annapolis Mall 11
Ft. Collins, CO - The Lyric Cinema & Cafe
Laguna Niguel, CA - Rancho Niguel 8
APRIL 26
Charlottesville, VA - Regal Downtown West Charlottesville
Charlotte, NC - Regal Manor
Salt Lake City, UT - Broadway
Ithaca, NY - Cinemapolis
Las Vegas, NV - Regal Village Square
Bellingham, WA - Pickford Film Center
Marthas Vineyard, MA - MV Film Center
Atlanta, GA - Landmark Midtown Art
Anchorage, AK - Bear Tooth Theatre
Athens, GA - Athens Ciné
Springfield, MO - The Moxie Cinema
Montreal, QC - Cinema du Parc
Nashville, TN - The Belcourt
MAY 3
Knoxville, TN - Regal Downtown West
Waterville, ME - Railroad Square Cinema
Davis, CA - Davis Varsity Theatre
MAY 10
Miami, FL - O Cinema
Milwaukee, WI - Landmark Oriental
Bakersfield, CA - Maya 16
Shreveport, LA - Robinson Film Center
MAY 17
Tulsa, OK - Circle Cinema
MAY 24
Columbia, MO - Ragtag Cinema
Eugene, OR - Bijou Metro
JUNE 7
Saskatoon, SK - The Roxy Saskatoon
JULY 10
Nyack, NY - Palisades Center / Rivertown Film
And here's a link.
So please go watch this movie and if you don't that's fine, too.
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i've wanted to see
pom poko
Guy is a shitty comedian but I'm sure he's a solid voice actor.
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im afraid for the future of ghibli
hoping this is actually good, but it also looks boring as heck and
The only thing I feel worried about is that there won't be anymore imaginative fantasy worlds that Ghibli used to be famous for
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Tales from Earthsea was hot garbage
the Ghibli mantle should go to Yonebayashi - if Arrietty is any indication, dude knows what he's doing
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Oh yeah this movie cost 20 mil to make and has already made 60 back so the US box office will just be extra frosting on the cake.
I've seen them with English subs, and Cantonese dubs, but not English dubs.
Hosoda Mamoru's Wolf Children Ame and Yuki is apparently pretty excellent, too, and came out around the same time as Poppy Hill. I've been meaning to see it because The Girl Who Leaped Through Time and Summer Wars were both excellent films.