Suggesting all that is lost when people rush to replace the old ways with shiny new alternatives, Studio Ghibli's gorgeously hand-drawn period romance "From Up on Poppy Hill" tells the story of ...

Goro Miyazaki, the son of legendary animation auteur Hayao Miyazaki, worked with his father on From Up on Poppy Hill, released Friday. He talks to Melissa Leon about their fragile relationship, ...

From Up on Poppy Hill, the second feature by Miyazaki's son, Goro Miyazaki — the first was the poorly received 2006 Ursula K. Le Guin adaptation Tales from Earthsea --takes place in a seaside ...

That same quality is in every frame of From up on Poppy Hill, written by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by his son Goro. Set in 1963, it is a story of young love between a girl named Umi and a boy ...

And from Japan comes this creation, the new animated film "From Up on Poppy Hill." It marks the first collaboration of a celebrated father, the Oscar-winning director of "Spirited Away," and his son.

The latest from animation stalwart Studio Ghibli, From Up On Poppy Hill continues the company’s recent trend of smaller, gentler films than its Hayao Miyazaki-forged-heydey. Fans of Miyazaki’s ...

It lets its leads' feelings drift naturally, maintaining the essential reserve of a Showa romance and leaving it up to us to figure ... anxiety when making Poppy Hill. He describes wrecking ...