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)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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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
Simple and Moving
This is one of Studio Ghibli's less known films. It tells the story of middle-aged Taeko's gradual realization of her love for the Japanese countryside. Through frequent funny and realistic childhood coming-of-age flashbacks we see that even during moments when life seems hopelessly complicated, it's really quite simple. On a similar note, the ability of anime to refine the needlessly complicated to its essence is one of its great qualities in my opinion. The scene in which little Taeko merrily walks into the sky is an (exaggerated) example of this ability. A live action attempt to show childhood elation would be much more strained. The film does glorify farm living, but doesn't gloss over the difficulties to the extent that most films do. I was skeptical of any animated film's ability to inspire emotion for the beauty of the countryside. I mean... it's just drawings that presume to represent the real thing right? Well, the animators obviously did their research. The scenery isn't artificially...scenic, but it is very beautiful in a subdued, natural way. What most impresses me is the constantly calm mood of the film. Where other films would escalate certain situations to cheesy melodramatics, this film keeps it's feet on the ground (except for little Taeko... I love that scene). On a final note, the voice acting was superb, and the famous (among otaku) ending sequence is very uplifting. If Miramax releases a subtitled version of this, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy.
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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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