From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

From Up on Poppy Hill parents guide

It stays inside its PG, with no swearing and nothing scary.

Rated PG, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine for any age.

Scare

Not scary

Jump scares

None noted

Gore

No gore

Violence

No real violence

Sex and nudity

None noted

Language

None noted

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What is From Up on Poppy Hill about?

Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.

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