Should you watch Only Yesterday?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Only Yesterday
Anime · 1991
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.
The sides of Only Yesterday
- A woman of twenty-seven taking leave to pick safflowers
- Her ten-year-old self walking beside her
- A farmhouse in the mountains of Yamagata
Only Yesterday is good for you if…
- you like a film whose big events are a harvest and a night train.
- you like remembering primary school with the woman who lived it.
- you like fields, mountain mornings and farm work filmed without hurry.
Only Yesterday is bad for you if…
- you won't read subtitles for two hours of quiet conversation.
- you don't watch animated films.
- you want a plot that moves, with something at stake.
About: nostalgia · growing up · the countryside
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