From Up on Poppy Hill
NZ release: 16 July 2011
Suitable for general audiences Rated on: 29 May 2012
Kokuriko-zaka kara
What’s it about?
A group of Yokohama students fight to save their school’s clubhouse from the wrecking ball as their town prepares for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
The facts
- Directed by Gorô Miyazaki
- Japanese language, with English subtitles
- Runtime: 91 minutes
- Animated film by Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Ponyo)
Why did it get this rating?
This film was cross-rated by the Film and Video Labelling Body. You can find out more about cross-rating here.
Low level violence
We see a large explosion as a man’s ship floats toward an underwater mine as a teenage girl’s voiceover explains that her father died in the Korean War.
Characters talk about deceased relatives who died in past wars, which sometimes saddens other characters.
One boy falls from a roof, landing in a shallow pool, but he is unharmed, and it mostly happens in a comical way.
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