Only Yesterday (1991)

Hoezo in KINO

Anime fans rejoice! KINO is teaming up with Kaboom Animation Festival and De Melkweg for a monthly series showcasing the best animated Japanese classics and more recent titles that deserve the biggest of screens. There’s a special place in our hearts for these animes, some of which we rented from import (and even bootleg) VHS tapes back in the day and we’re excited to partner with Kaboom to exhibit these beautifully crafted animations every third Wednesday of the month.

Credits

Regie: Isao Takahata
Genre: anime
Speelduur: 118 minuten
Land: Japans
Taal: Japans
Ondertiteling: Engels

Storyline

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, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature stirrings of romance, the onset of puberty, and the frustrations of math and boys. At the station she is met by young farmer Toshio, and the encounters with him begin to reconnect her 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.