Only Yesterday

1991 · Directed by Isao Takahata

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.

Animation Drama Romance

Cast: Issey Takahashi, Yoko Honna, Ichirō Nagai, Mayumi Iizuka, Toshirō Yanagiba, Michie Terada, Yoshimasa Kondo, Miki Imai, Yorie Yamashita, Yuuki Masuda

Rating: 7.348/10 from 847 votes