posted 5 Sept 2013, 12:49 by Julian Whiting
FROM UP ON POPPY HILL (U) 2011 JAPAN MIYAZAKI , GORO
DVD – £19.99 BLU RAY – £29.99
Studio Ghibli animation set during the run up of the 1964 Tokyo
Olympics, fatherless 16-year-old high school student Umi helps run a
boarding house overlooking the Japanese port of Yokohama, while her
mother is away studying medicine in America. After meeting up with
local orphan Shun, Umi enlists to help save the ‘Quartier Latin’, an old
and dilapidated building housing her high school’s clubs, which is
being threatened with demolition in the country’s drive for post-war
modernisation.
In Japanese with English subtiltes
DVD available at – http://www.worldonlinecinema.com/Home/japanese-films-on-dvd
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