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From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and My Neighbor Totoro, comes another animated triumph. Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to hos the Olympics. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi (Sarah Bolger) and Shun (Anton Yelchin) - but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.

2013 · 1h 31m
Director Goro Miyazaki

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From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and My Neighbor Totoro, comes another animated triumph. Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to hos the Olympics. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi (Sarah Bolger) and Shun (Anton Yelchin) - but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.

COMMON SENSE

Inspiring, romantic coming-of-age tale about '60s teens.

TOMATOMETER
Average 7.1
Reviews 87
Fresh 76
Rotten 11

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Studio
Studio Ghibli
Released
2013
Run Time
1 hr 31 min
Rated
PG
Region of Origin
Japan
© 2019 Studio Ghibli/GKIDS under exclusive license to Shout Factory LLC, 2011, 2012 Chizuru Takahashi - Tetsuro Sayama - GNDHDDT

Languages

Original Audio
Japanese, Japanese (Japan)
Audio

English (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.