A Studio Ghibli film is always a treat.Umi (Masami Nagasawa) is a busy high schooler. Every morning she cooks breakfast for the boarding house she lives in with her grandmother, gets herself and her siblings ready for school, and always remembers to raise the nautical flags out front in remembrance of her father, who died during WWII. She gets involved in the school newspaper after a stunt by one of the members, Shun (Jun'ichi Okada), to raise awareness of the proposed destruction of the school clubhouse. Umi uses her superb organizational skills to spearhead the cleaning and restoration of the building. As she and Shun spend more time together, feeling begin to develop, but a longheld family secret could force them apart.
I am usually the first person to demand my movies have at least one (preferably explosive) action piece but this was a nice break. Very low-key human drama that doesn't center on trauma to force empathy, and of course, wrapped in the signature Ghibli lush animation.
It's currently streaming on HBO Max. I watched it subbed, but there is an English dub as well.
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