Akio Kazama

Akio Kazama (風間 明雄, Kazama Akio) is a supporting character of From Up on Poppy Hill film.

Story
Akio is the foster father to Shun Kazama and husband to Miss Kazama. During the day, he works on a boat. At evening he likes to watch baseball on TV.

Shun Kazama
Shun asked him often about his biological father, but Akio answered him Shun is like his biological son. Shun didn't tell him he falls in love with Umi Matsuzaki. He get know about this relationship, when Ryōko Matsuzaki calls him on the phone. Then he tells his son, he should ask Yoshio Onodera.

Yūichirō Sawamura
Yūichirō Sawamura is a good friend of him. Yuuichirou entrust him and his wife with baby Shun. He often visits Akio to help his family financial.

Etymology

 * The name Akio means "bright, light, clear" (明) (aki) and "hero, manly" (雄) (o).
 * Akio's surname Kazama means "wind, breeze, way, manner, blaster, gale, gust, sirocco, method" (風) (kaza) and "while, time, interval, space, pause, chamber, room, apartment, leisure, chance, entr'acte, intervening, as" (間) (ma).

Akio Kazama