GKids
Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network,
Dentsu, Hakuhodo DYMP,
Walt Disney Japan,
Mitsubishi, and Toho
present
From Up On Poppy Hill
aka
Kokuriko-zaka kara

Official Japanese Theatrical Release Date: July 17, 2011
Official North American English-Language Theatrical Release Date: March 15, 2013
Copyright: Chizuru Takahashi, Tetsuro Sayama, GNDHDDT [Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DYMP, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi (D-rights), Toho] © 2011, 2012
North American Distribution: GKids Distribution
Produced by: Studio Ghibli
Feature Animation by: Studio Ghibli
MPAA Rating: Rated PG (Parental Guidance Suggested ~ Some Material May Not Be Suitable For Children) for Mild Thematic Elements, and Some Incidental Smoking Images
Length:  91 Minutes

[table caption=”Cast and Characters” colalign=”center|right|left|center|left”] [attr sort=”false”]|Cast|Character/Performance|[attr sort=”false”]|Notes[attr sort=”false”]

|Gillian Anderson|Miki||
|Stephen Apostolina|additional voice||
|Zander Ayeroff|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Alex Bachman|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Kirk Baily|additional voice||
|Sarah Bolger|Umi||
|Beau Bridges|Mr. Tokumaru||
|Emily Bridges|Mr. Tokumaru’s assistant||
|Benjamin Byram|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Robert Clotworthy|additional voice||
|David Cowgill|additional voice||
|Jamie Lee Curtis|Ryoko||
|Bruce Dern|Onodera||
|Holly Dorff Long|additional voice||
|Moosie Drier|additional voice||
|Jeff Dunham|Gen||
|Ronan Farrow|additional voice||
|Eddie Frierson|additional voice||
|Isabelle Fuhrman|Sora||
|Elisa Gabrielli|additional voice||
|Jackie Gonneau|additional voice||
|DJ Harper|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Walt Harrah|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Christina Hendricks|Saori||
|Bridget Hoffman|additional voice||
|Richard Horvitz|additional voice||
|Ron Howard|Philosophy Club President||
|Luana Jackman|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Nathan Jae-Sun Large|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Emme Lehmann Boddicker|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Vili Lehmann Boddicker|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Hope Levy|additional voice||
|Guy Maeda|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Meghan Marshall|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Zoe Merrill|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Edie Mirman|additional voice||
|Nolan Muchow|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Derik Nelson|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Tye Nielsen|additional voice||
|Chris Noth|Akio||
|Michael O’Brien|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Raymond Ochoa|Riku||
|Emily Osment|Nobuko||
|Bobbi Page|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Aubrey Plaza|Sachiko||
|The Poppy Hill Choir|‘The Indigo Waves’||
|The Poppy Hill Choir|‘Red River Valley’||
|The Poppy Hill Choir|‘When The White Flower Blossomed’||
|Hunter Rogers|additional voice||
|Kyu Sakamoto|‘Ue wo Muite Aruko’||
|Charlie Saxton|Mizunuma||
|Erica Sims|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Warren Sroka|additional voice||
|Jake Steinfeld|Fish Seller||
|John C. Storey|additional voice||
|Aoi Teshima|‘The Breakfast Song’||
|Aoi Teshima|‘First Love’||
|Aoi Teshima|‘Summer Of Farewells – From Up On Poppy Hill’||
|Byron Thames|additional voice||
|Emily Vidmar|The Poppy Hill Choir||
|Madeleine Elizabeth Whittle|additional voice||
|Alex Wolff|Riku||
|Anton Yelchin|Shun||
|David Zyler|additional voice||

[/table]

Music
Music by Satoshi Takebe

[table caption=”Songs”] Song|Composer/ Lyricist|Performers|Notes

The Breakfast Song|Lyrics by Goro Miyazaki and Hiroko Taniyama, Music by Hiroko Taniyama|Performed by Aoi Teshima|
First Love|Lyrics by Goro Miyazaki and Hiroko Taniyama, Music by Hiroko Taniyama|Performed by Aoi Teshima|
The Indigo Waves|Lyrics by Hayao Miyazaki and Goro Miyazaki, Music by Hiroko Taniyama|Performed by The Poppy Hill Choir|
Red River Valley||Performed by The Poppy Hill Choir|
Summer of Farewells – From Up On Poppy Hill|Lyrics by Yukiko Marimura, Music by Koichi Sakata|Performed by Aoi Teshima|
Ue wo Muite Aruko|Lyrics by Rokusuke Ei, Music by Hachidai Nakamura|Performed by Kyu Sakamoto|EMI Music Japan
When The White Flower Blossomed|Lyrics by Chisa Terao, Music by Shigeru Tamura|Performed by The Poppy Hill Choir|
The Poppy Hill Choir||Zander Ayeroff, Alex Bachman, Benjamin Byram, DJ Harper, Walt Harrah, Luana Jackman, Nathan Jae-Sun Large, Emme Lehmann Boddicker, Vili Lehmann Boddicker, Guy Maeda, Meghan Marshall, Zoe Merrill, Nolan Muchow, Derik Nelson, Michael O’Brien, Bobbi Page, Erica Sims, Emily Vidmar|

[/table]

[table caption=”Awards”] Award|Year|Winner/ Nominee|Category|Recipient|Notes

Annie Awards|2012 (40th)|Nominee|Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in an Animated Feature Production|Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa, Karey Kirkpatrick|

[/table]

Copyrights

• Poetry Club Recital: ‘Seito Shokum Ni Yoseru (To My Students)‘ written by Kenji Miyazawa
• Debate Club Recital: ‘Pericles’ Funeral Oration‘ from Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War

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