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Only Yesterday
1991 1h 59m PG
Drama
,
Romance
,
Animation
7.6
100%
82%
74%
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A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.
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Directed By
Isao Takahata
Written By
Isao Takahata
,
Hotaru Okamoto
Studio
Studio Ghibli
,
Studio Fuga
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Cast of Only Yesterday
Miki Imai
Taeko Okajima (voice)
Toshiro Yanagiba
Toshio (voice)
Yoko Honna
Taeko (voice)
Mayumi Izuka
Tsuneko Tani (voice)
Masahiro Itou
Father (voice)
Chie Kitagawa
Taeko's Grandmother (voice)
Yuuki Masuda
Hirota (voice)
Yuki Minowa
Yaeko (voice)
Michie Terada
Mother (voice)
Yorie Yamashita
Nanako (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
Torahige (voice)
Yoshimasa Kondo
Homeroom Teacher (voice)
Issey Takahashi
Classmate (voice)
Only Yesterday Reviews
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
I have little in common with Takeo, yet I related to her experiences as if they were my own. This represents the genius of Takahata.
Chesapeake Family Magazine
Roxana Hadadi
Only Yesterday is one of Studio Ghibli's films aimed primarily at female viewers ... an intentional story that is emotionally honest.
Chicago Reader
Tal Rosenberg
Half coming-of-age story, half adult drama, the film demonstrates Takahata's belief that animation need not be limited to children's fantasy.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
The animation isn't showy, but it's beautiful, providing clear delineations between Taeko's past and present. The attention to detail is fantastic. But the story is what sets the film apart.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
For those who like their anime unhurried, elegiac, and episodic.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The story of a young woman who moves back and forth between childhood memories and the dilemmas of her current life, "Only Yesterday" is a realistic, personal story made universal in a delicate way.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Only Yesterday is a meditation on coming of age, the ways our personalities are formed, and informed.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Another sumptuous visual feast from the studio, full of endless images finely detailed and often lavish.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Isao Takahata's film is an animation miracle so subtle that it doesn't fully hit you till you take it home and into your dreams.
Entertainment Weekly
Devan Coggan
Only Yesterday may have been released in 1991 and take place in 1982 and 1966, but Taeko's reflection on girlhood is truly timeless.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The movie will probably go over the heads of little children, but it's certainly for thoughtful older kids and their parents.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Handkerchiefs should be considered essential for viewing this lovely, overlooked-in-the-U.S. addition to Takahata and Ghibli's already perfect CV.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It's not just the animation that stirs, it's also the sound design.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Only Yesterday can sometimes seem a little too random in what it chooses to show, but it has a cumulative power as Taeko comes to understand that the past that shaped her needn't define her.
ChrisStuckmann.com
Chris Stuckmann
This masterful film undeniably proves that Studio Ghibli was lightyears ahead of everyone else working in animation.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
Mr. Takahata's psychologically acute film, which was based on a manga, seems to grow in impact ... as the adult Takao comes to a richer understanding of what she wants and how she wants to live.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
Like "Kaguya," it functions as a highly sensitive and empathetic consideration of the situation of women in Japanese society-but it's also a breathtaking work of art on its own.
Village Voice
Sherilyn Connelly
It's both an important part of Ghibli's history and a gem in its own right.
Slant Magazine
Oleg Ivanov
It uses the trappings of the family melodrama to reveal the subtle social constraints that inhibit people, particularly women, from attaining full self-realization.
rachelsreviews.net
Rachel Wagner
The childhood segments are very cute and charming but the adult sections drag a bit and are a little preachy.
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