The First Teaser Trailer For Studio Ghibli's KOKURIKO-ZAKA KARA!

As Studio Ghibli's Arrietty is about to get its UK/Irish release in cinema's nationwide on July 29th, the iconic Japanese animation studio are actually in the final stages of promotion for the follow up animation KOKURIKO-ZAKA KARA!The new is directed by Goro Miyazaki (Tales From The Earthsea) the son of Hayao who is the movies co-director telling the story of a group of Yokohama teens fighting to save a clubhouse from destruction from the upcoming 1964 Olympic Games.

The signature style of Ghibli can be seen not just in the visual style but also the story content with a slight political but environmental issue mixed into a sweet coming of age story in the 1960's. A release of a Ghibli movie is an major event and if the story is done well you can bet your bottom dollar this will be a success.

KOKURIKO-ZAKA KARA will be released in Japan on July 16th.

Chizuru Takahashi and Tetsurō Sayama's original manga is set in Showa 38 (1963, a year before the Tokyo Olympics) and follows the coming of age of an ordinary, pigtailed high school girl named Komatsuzaki (23-year-old actress Masami Nagasawa) in Yokohama, a harbor city near Tokyo. Her sailor father went missing after an accident, and her photographer mother is frequently going abroad for work. Her family now runs a lodging house. The manga recounts Komatsuzaki's everyday life of "laughter and tears" with two boys — a school newspaper member named Shun Kazama (30-year-old Junichi Okada of the music group V6) and the student council president Mizunuma. 

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