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Only Yesterday (1991)

★ 7.4 · 1,242 ratings on TMDB

I'm going on a trip with Me.

Only Yesterday poster★ 7.4

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.

DirectorIsao Takahata
CastChie Kitagawa, Masahiro Ito, Mayumi Izuka, Michie Terada, Miki Imai, Toshiro Yanagiba
GenresAnimation, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

Only Yesterday keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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