Film1991118 min

Only Yesterday

Name: Only Yesterday
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Released: 1991
Duration: 118 min
Cast: Miki Imai, Toshirō Yanagiba, Yoko Honna, Mayumi Iizuka, Masahiro Itou

Taste attributes: animationdramaromancemusic/dancefresh & originalwholesomelightimaginarysimpleglossyemotive & stirringall consuming questcomplex relationshiplove conquers all

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Boxlist takeA moving animated film that is good-natured, larger-than-life and fresh. Best if you like stories that hit hard.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: very wholesome · Weight: light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score

Quality rating

7.3 /10

TMDB · 699 votes

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What lines up

Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
Linearity: Balanced linearity, just how this profile likes it

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Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
Wholesomeness: Wholesome, where this profile leans unsavoury

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Synopsis

It’s 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, where she begins to reconnect to forgotten longings. In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

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