Her father was killed in the war and her mother travels constantly, so in addition to attending high school, Umi must also run the family business.
Umi, a shy teenaged girl, manages a boarding house on the Yokohama seaside.
I'm looking forward to The Borrowers as well as Kokuriko-Zaka Kara (which I'm sure will get an English title soon), but we're on a delayed schedule in the US and probably won't see either of these new films for a few more years.The 1964 Tokyo Olympics represented a new start for Japan-out with the old Meiji-era buildings that reminded citizens of bad times, in with innovation that spoke to the future of a newly peaceful and increasingly prosperous country. Hayao Miyazaki co-wrote the script with Keiko Niwa, also of Tales from Earthsea.Īs everyone knows, I'm a huge Miyazaki/Ghibli fan and I'm always interested in their newest feature films, especially because they're some of the only beautiful hand-drawn animated films left these days.
No magic wizards in this one, it sounds like. The manga recounts Komatsuzaki's everyday life of " laughter and tears" with two boys: a school newspaper member and the student council president. Her sailor father went missing after an accident, and her photographer mother often goes abroad for work. The story is set in 1963, a year before the Tokyo Olympics, and follows the coming of age of an ordinary high school girl named Komatsuzaki (seen above in artwork from the website) in Yokohama, a harbor city near Tokyo. Studio Ghibli is already hard at work on this and The Borrowers, as they say Kokuriko-Zaka will actually hit theaters in Japan next summer, plus the official website just went up. Directing will be Goro Miyazaki, son of legendary Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, who directed their 2006 movie Tales from Earthsea ( watch the trailer). Gather ’round Studio Ghibli fans! It was just announced by the legendary Japanese animation studio, as reported on Anime News Network (via SlashFilm), that their newest feature-length film is an adaptation of Chizuru Takahashi and Tetsurō Sayama's manga Kokuriko-Zaka Kara (see Wikipedia).
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