From Up On Poppy Hill and Ghibli Anniversary Cinema Release Details
Anime News Network reported information about the release for Studio Ghibli’s last film From Up On Poppy Hill last Friday. According to a representative of StudioCanal, “It will probably primarily be the English dubbed (version) with just 1 or 2 (screens) doing the Japanese dub.” The English dubbed version features a cast including Gillian Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Beau Bridges, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard, Chris Noth, Aubrey Plaza and Anton Yelchin.
Set in 1963 in the run up to the Tokyo Olympics this coming of age tale takes place in Yokohama and follows the life of a high school girl named Umi Komatsuzaki. Her father, a sailor, is missing and her photographer mother travels frequently so she helps run a lodging house with the rest of her family. Umi’s efforts to protect the lodging house draws new emotions from her friendship with two boys, Shun Kazama, a school newspaper member and Mizunuma, student council president.
There will also be a cinema release of “the 1988 Ghibli films My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies, to celebrate their joint 25th anniversary. The re-release will be “in cinemas nationwide on May 24.”
