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)
Masako Watanabe
- Naoko
- (voice)
Storyline
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
Growing out of growing up
We've all seen those "coming of age" movies that transition the protagonist from childhood into puberty, and there's heaps of "discover your inner child" movies to put some fun in your life or life in your fun or whatever -- Only Yesterday is a rarity: Unsure and a little lost in her urban complacency, Taeko finds she must step beyond her inner-child shadow before she can grow up and move on with her life.
Only Yesterday isn't about grade-five, it's about being 27 by way of grade-five. It's a story about stepping out of our childhood, like the way we finally, and graciously, say goodbye to a worn-out favourite pair of shoes, or when, once we get to our destination, we can thank a particularly helpful bus driver and disembark.
Ugh, that's not much of a review, is it. Fortunately, Takahata says it all ten thousand times better than this :)
Only Yesterday isn't about grade-five, it's about being 27 by way of grade-five. It's a story about stepping out of our childhood, like the way we finally, and graciously, say goodbye to a worn-out favourite pair of shoes, or when, once we get to our destination, we can thank a particularly helpful bus driver and disembark.
Ugh, that's not much of a review, is it. Fortunately, Takahata says it all ten thousand times better than this :)
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- teledyn
- May 12, 2005
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- Ще вчора
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $453,243
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $14,970
- Jan 3, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $546,233
- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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