Country It was directed by Isao Takahata and produced by Hayao Miyazaki. She decides to take another trip to visit the family of the elder brother of her brother-in-law in the rural countryside to help with the safflower harvest and get away from city life. ... Shuji Hirota A boy in the classroom next to Taeko's. 118 minutes - This is a story synopsis of Only Yesterday and contains plot elements that may spoil first-time viewers. They are luxurious baths, but they're praising it just to play along with Taeko when really they have no interest in the bathhouses themselves. Hirota Quotes: Hirota: Rainy days, cloudy days, sunny days... which do you like? Adaptation from a Hungarian traditional folk song).

After 25 years, an English dub of the film was finally released in 2016 by GKIDS, featuring the voices of Daisy Ridley, Dev Patel and Ashley Eckstein. The accessories are all the ones in the picture. These are typical Bulgarian folklore songs and the lyrics of both are connected to topics mentioned in the film – the life of farmers and marriage.

It is implied that she and Toshio begin a relationship. The character is seen when Taeko recalls her childhood favorite puppet show Hyokkori Hyotan Jima (ひょっこりひょうたん島, "Floating Gourd Island") that aired every weekday on NHK from 1964 to 1969.

The most viewed series from that year on Anime Characters Database is Brother, Dear Brother ( 281 views ). Though it won’t be for everyone, it represents the quality and artistry that Studio Ghibli is known for. During the course of the film, characters visit prominent locales, including the resort destination of Mount Zaō. [9], On August 31, 2020, it was announced a live-action special based on the manga will air on NHK's subchannels BS Premium and BS4K on January 2021. Directed by At Yamagata, Taeko finds Toshio waiting for her with his car, and the two drive back to the farm house. Tweet +1. [11] The Takase Station (and also Yamadera Station) of the JNR (currently JR East) Senzan Line is featured prominently; though it has since been rebuilt, the scenery remains mostly unchanged.

This realization helps Taeko overcome the painful memory, and ultimately come to terms with the person she has become, and how it differs from her fifth-grade self. During her stay in Yamagata, she finds herself increasingly nostalgic and wistful for her childhood self, while simultaneously wrestling with adult issues of career and love. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/OnlyYesterday.

On the day he was to leave the city, Taeko’s teacher insisted everyone in the class shake his hand. In a series of flashbacks, imaginatively interwoven with her current life, a picture forms of her youth, filled with math problems, friends, boys and the typical throes of a girl growing up. The trip dredges up forgotten memories, the first strings of childish romance, puberty, growing up, the frustrations of math and boys, the relationship she held with her sisters and parents. Taeko's older sisters invoke this while marveling about the lovely baths at Atami to Taeko. It was animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Hakuhodo, and distributed by Toho. In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self. Only Yesterday is unique, in that the voices were recorded first and the animators came in second to draw accurate facial muscles and to match the words. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.