A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.
- Awards
- 1 win & 8 nominations
Toshirô Yanagiba
- Toshio
- (voice)
Yoko Honna
- Taeko (Child)
- (voice)
Mayumi Izuka
- Tsuneko
- (voice)
- (as Mayumi Iizuka)
Mei Oshitani
- Aiko
- (voice)
Megumi Komine
- Toko
- (voice)
Yukiyo Takizawa
- Rie
- (voice)
Masashi Ishikawa
- Soo
- (voice)
Yuuki Masuda
- Shuji Hirota
- (voice)
Michie Terada
- Mother
- (English version)
- (voice)
Masahiro Ito
- Father
- (voice)
Yorie Yamashita
- Nanako
- (voice)
Yuki Minowa
- Yaeko
- (voice)
Chie Kitagawa
- Grandmother
- (voice)
Sachiko Ishikawa
- Kiyoko
- (voice)
Masako Watanabe
- Naoko
- (voice)
Hirozumi Sato
- Abe
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Walt Disney Company acquired the US distribution rights from Studio Ghibli-Tokuma as part of a more comprehensive rights agreement. Disney decided it would not release Only Yesterday in the US due to references to menstruation in the film. A clause in Studio Ghibli's distribution contract prohibited Disney from altering the scene to remove the references. GKIDS has since acquired the rights from Disney and Ghibli, and released an English dubbed version that was distributed by Universal Pictures, making this the first Studio Ghibli film to be dubbed into English by Universal Pictures.
- ConnectionsFeatured in JesuOtaku Anime Reviews: Only Yesterday (2012)
- SoundtracksCantec de nunta
Written by Gheorghe Zamfir (uncredited)
Performed by Gheorghe Zamfir and Ansamblul Ciocarlia
Courtesy of Electrecord Romania
Featured review
Ghibli's (unheralded) best
This is probably my favorite animated film of all -- and now it looks even more beautiful than ever (thanks to the Japnese DVD release). This is a story of a 20-something "office lady" who is vaguely dissatisfied with what she sees as increasingly pointless life in the big city. As she visits the rural family of her sister's husband for a working vacation, she also revisits her fifth grade self. (The contemporary scenes are done in a fairly realistic fashion, the flashbacks have a lovely pastel look -- that would later be used even more extensively in "Our Neighbors, the Yamadas"). This film does not draw upon cartoons for its background, but on the films of Ozu and Naruse. The intelligence and sublety of the characterization is extraordinary. This also has a very appealing use of Hungarian folk music (the favored music of our heroine's young farmer friend). If you've never before sobbed tears of joy over closing credits before, you will here. (It never fails for me -- at about 7 times and counting). While Takahata's "Grave of the Fireflies" may have a more timely (and harrowing) tale to tell, I think this understated little story is even more beautiful and effective.
Details
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $453,243
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $14,970
- Jan 3, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $608,562
- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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