From Up on Poppy Hill

Why tonight?

• ◆Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
• ◆Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
• ◆In Japanese — subtitles on.

The story

Yokohama, 1963. 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. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.

• high school
• students' movement
• romance
• based on manga
• period drama
• teenage love
• dead father
• clubhouse
• post war japan
• 1960s