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Only Yesterday

Name: Only Yesterday
Director: Isao Takahata
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Released: 1991-07-20
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Miki Imai, Yoko Honna, Toshiro Yanagiba, Yorie Yamashita, Yuki Minowa

1991 · 1h 59m · Animation, Drama, Romance

IMDb 7.6 Metacritic 90 RT 100%

Only Yesterday is a Studio Ghibli masterpiece that deserves your attention tonight—it's a contemplative, gorgeously animated meditation on life choices and regret that hits different as you get older. If you want something emotionally mature, visually stunning, and genuinely moving rather than another flashy blockbuster, absolutely watch it.

Plot

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.

Director: Isao Takahata

Cast: Miki Imai, Yoko Honna, Toshiro Yanagiba, Yorie Yamashita, Yuki Minowa

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