“From Up on Poppy Hill” is frankly stunning, as beautiful a hand-drawn animated feature as you are likely to see. It’s a time-machine dream of a not-so-distant past, a sweet and honestly ...

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 ...

On the surface, From Up on Poppy Hill has a relatively simple plot. The film follows Umi Matsuzaki, a 16-year-old student who develops a rivalry/friendship with her classmate Shun, as they pull ...

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” is at once old-fashioned and innovative, an exquisite evocation of Yokohama in 1963 that dares to treat teenagers with both gravity and grace. A 2-D cartoon made at ...

Based on the jolly, jazzy score that keeps “From Up on Poppy Hill” lively, the latest from Studio Ghibli (“Howl’s Moving Castle”) appears to have missed its calling as a Broadway musical.

So let’s get it out of the way. The answer is, maybe not. There. Now we can talk about “From Up on Poppy Hill,” one of the shimmering highlights of the year. Like “Ponyo” and last year ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

From Up On Poppy Hill, the latest film from the beloved Studio Ghibli, marks the sophomore feature of Gor? Miyazaki, son of the renowned animator and Ghibli co-founder, Hayao Miyazaki. The younger ...