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Only Yesterday is a film of genre Drama directed by Isao Takahata released in USA on 26 february 2016 with Miki Imai
Only Yesterday (1991)
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Add to a movie listOnly Yesterday (Japanese: おもひでぽろぽろ, Hepburn: Omoide Poro Poro, lit. "memories come tumbling down") is a 1991 Japanese animated drama film written and directed by Isao Takahata, based on the manga of the same title by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuko Tone. Toshio Suzuki produced the film and Studio Ghibli provided the animation. It was released on July 20, 1991. The ending theme song (愛は花、君はその種子 'Ai wa Hana, Kimi wa sono Tane', lit. "Love is a flower, you are its seed") is a Japanese translation of Amanda McBroom's composition "The Rose."
Only Yesterday is significant among progressive anime films in that it explores a genre traditionally thought to be outside the realm of animated subjects, in this case a realistic drama written for adults, particularly women. The film was, however, a surprise box office success, attracting a large adult audience of both genders.
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In 1982, Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, has lived her whole life in Tokyo and now works at a company there. She decides to take another trip to visit the family of the elder brother of her brother-in-law in the rural countryside to help with the safflower harvest and get away from city life. While traveling at night on a sleeper train to Yamagata, she begins to recall memories of herself as a schoolgirl in 1966, and her intense desire to go on holiday like her classmates, all of whom have family outside of the big city.Actors
Miki Imai
Toshirō Yanagiba
Yōko Honna
(Taeko (voice))
Mayumi Iizuka
(Tsuneko Tani (voice))
Ichirō Nagai
(Torahige (voice))
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