Release Date

July, 16th, 2011

Running Time

91 min

Genre

Animation

Color

Color

Screening Format

35mm

Screen Size

American Vista (1:1.85)

Sound Processing

DTS

Subtitle

English

[ Directed by ]

• MIYAZAKI Goro

[ Produced by ]

• SUZUKI Toshio

[ Cast ]

• NAGASAWA Masami ── MATSUZAKI Umi
• OKADA Junichi ── KAZAMA Shun
• TAKESHITA Keiko ── MATSUZAKI Hana
• ISHIDA Yuriko ── HOKUTO Miki
• HIIRAGI Rumi ── HIROKOJI Sachiko
• FUBUKI Jun ── MATSUZAKI Ryoko
• NAITO Takashi ── ONODERA Yoshio
• KAZAMA Shunsuke ── MIZUNUMA Shiro
• OMORI Nao ── KAZAMA Akio
• KAGAWA Teruyuki ── Chairman TOKUMARU

[ Staff ]

• MIYAZAKI Hayao ── Planning
• MIYAZAKI Hayao ── Screenplay
• TAKAHASHI Chizuru ── Original Story
• SAYAMA Tetsuro ── Original Story
• NIWA Keiko ── Screenplay
• HOSHINO Koji ── Executive director
• TAKEBE Satoshi ── Music
• KONDO Katsuya ── Character Design
• OKUI Atsushi ── Director of Digital Imaging
• KASAMATSU Koji ── Sound designer / Sound re-recording mixer
• KIMURA Eriko ── Dialogue recording director

[ Production Company ]

Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network, DENTSU, HAKUHODO DYMP, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, TOHO

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

Toho

[ Production Studio ]

Studio Ghibli

[ Story ]

A Studio Ghibli film devised and written by Miyazaki Hayao, and directed by his son Miyazaki Goro who also helmed TALES FROM EARTHSEA. Set in Yokohama in the 1960s, it nostalgically depicts the youthful days of two generations of a family. sixteen-year-old girl Umi (voice: Nagasawa Masami), who helps run a lodging house called Kokuriko-so, falls in love with a seventeen-year-old high school student named Shun (voice: Okada Junichi), but he is hiding a secret about his parentage. The earnest duo begin to unravel the truth about their parents' youth.

[ Official Site ]

http://kokurikozaka.jp/

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

Toronto International Film Festival 2011 Contemporary World Cinema

[ Contact (International) ]

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