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It’s 1982, and Taeko (Daisy Ridley) is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her relatives in the countryside, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature stirrings of romance, the onset of puberty, and the frustrations of math and boys. At the station she is met by young farmer Toshio (Dev Patel), and the encounters with him begin to reconnect her 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.
From Academy Award®-nominated director Isao Takahata (The Tale of The Princess Kaguya) and general producer Hayao Miyazaki, Only Yesterday is a masterpiece of time and tone, rich with humor and stirring emotion, and beautifully animated by one of the world’s most revered animation studios. Critically acclaimed but never before released in North America, the film is receiving a national theatrical release in a new, Studio Ghibli-produced, English-language version in celebration of its 25th anniversary.
Original Release
07/20/1991
US Release
01/06/2012
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Miki Imai | Taeko / Taeko Okajima (voice) |
Toshirô Yanagiba | Toshio / Toshio (voice) |
Youko Honna | Taeko (Child) / Taeko (voice) |
Mayumi Izuka | Tsuneko / Tsuneko Tani (voice) |
Mei Oshitani | Aiko |
Megumi Komine | Toko |
Yukiyo Takizawa | Rie |
Masashi Ishikawa | Soo |
Yuuki Masuda | Shuji Hirota / Hirota (voice) |
Michie Terada | Mother / Mother (voice) |
Directors
Writers
Isao Takahata, Hotaru Okamoto, Yuuko Tone, David Freedman
Cast
Name | Character |
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Miki Imai | Taeko / Taeko Okajima (voice) |
Toshirô Yanagiba | Toshio / Toshio (voice) |
Youko Honna | Taeko (Child) / Taeko (voice) |
Mayumi Izuka | Tsuneko / Tsuneko Tani (voice) |
Mei Oshitani | Aiko |
Megumi Komine | Toko |
Yukiyo Takizawa | Rie |
Masashi Ishikawa | Soo |
Yuuki Masuda | Shuji Hirota / Hirota (voice) |
Michie Terada | Mother / Mother (voice) |
Masahiro Ito | Father (voice) / Father |
Yorie Yamashita | Nanako / Nanako (voice) |
Yuki Minowa | Yaeko / Yaeko (voice) |
Chie Kitagawa | Grandmother / Taeko's Grandmother (voice) |
Koji Goto | Kazuo |
Sachiko Ishikawa | Kiyoko |
Masako Watanabe | Naoko |
Hirozumi Satō | Abe |
Daisy Ridley | Taeko |
Yoshimasa Kondô | Additional Voices / Additional Voices (voice) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ritsuo Isobe | Executive Producer |
Yoshio Sasaki | Executive Producer |
Yasuyoshi Tokuma | Executive Producer |
Hayao Miyazaki | Executive Producer |
Toru Hara | Producer |
Hayao Miyazaki | Producer |
Hideo Ogata | Producer |
Shigeharu Shiba | Producer |
Toshio Suzuki | Producer |
Geoffrey Wexler | Producer |
Tatsumi Yamashita | Producer |
Yasuyoshi Tokuma | Producer |