From Up on Poppy Hill
Studio Ghibli is known for its whimsical fantasy movies, featuring fantastic creatures (literally) and colorful characters.
But the studio is also really good at producing calm, slice-of-life films featuring nothing other than regular human beings.
Kokuriko-zaka Kara(From Up on Poppy Hill) is such a movie, following the lives of high schoolers in 1968 Yokohama, Japan, who are trying to…