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Only Yesterday (movie)

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Alternative title:
Los Recuerdos no se Olvidan (Spanish)
Omohide Poro Poro (Japanese)
Powrót do marzeń (Polish)
Tränen der Erinnerung (German)
おもひでぽろぽろ (Japanese)
兒時的點點滴滴 (Chinese (Taiwan))
歲月的童話 (Chinese (Hong Kong))
Plot Summary: Taeko Okajima is a typical "office lady" in a big company in a big city. When she takes a sabbatical to the countryside in Yamagata Prefecture, the hometown of her brother-in-law, the journey recalled her memory of her 5th grade year. During her stay in Yamagata, she works hard and happily as a farmer and is surrounded by friendly relatives and villagers, bringing up more memories. Their hospitality makes her to reconsider her choice of life.
User Ratings: 514 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 88 votes (sub:78, dub:4, Ger.sub:2, raw:1, Ger.dub:1, Por.sub:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Excellent: 123 votes (sub:106, dub:12, raw:3, ?:1, Ger.dub:1)
 Very good: 134 votes (sub:115, dub:11, raw:2, Ita.sub:1, Ger.dub:1, Spa.sub:1, Rus.dub:1, Ita.dub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Good: 95 votes (sub:82, Spa.sub:3, dub:2, Fre.sub:2, Rus.sub:1, Pol.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, ?:1, Fre.dub:1, Pol.edit.dub:1)
 Decent: 35 votes (sub:28, dub:3, raw:2, Spa.sub:1, Ger.dub:1)
 So-so: 15 votes (sub:11, raw:2, dub:2)
 Not really good: 7 votes (sub:6, Fre.sub:1)
 Weak: 10 votes (sub:9, Spa.sub:1)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 749 users, rank: #777
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.9341 (Very good-.06), std. dev.: 1.7475, rank: #540
Weighted mean: 7.8462 (Very good-.15), rank: #462
Bayesian estimate: 7.84009 (Very good-.15), rank: #301
Running time: 118 minutes
Vintage: 1991-06-27
Premiere date:
1991-07-20 (Japan)
Releases: We have 7
Ending Theme:
"Ai wa Hana, Kimi wa Sono Tane (愛は花、君はその種子; Love Is a Flower, You Are the Seed)" by Harumi Miyako
Links: We have 4
Trivia: We have 1
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Isao Takahata

Screenplay: Isao Takahata

Storyboard: Yoshiyuki Momose

Music: Masaru Hoshi

Original Manga:
Hotaru Okamoto (story)
Yuuko Tone (art)

Character Design: Yoshifumi Kondô

Background Art Director: Kazuo Oga

Director of Photography: Hisao Shiraishi

Executive producer: Hayao Miyazaki

Producer:
Ritsuo Isobe
Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Yoshio Sasaki

Animation Check:
Hitomi Tateno
Rie Nakagome
Yasuko Tachiki

Animation Supervisor:
Katsuya Kondo
Yoshifumi Kondô
Yoshiharu Sato

Art Assistant: Katsu Hisamura

Art Direction: Kazuo Oga

Assistant director: Norihiko Sudo

Background Art:
Katsufumi Hariu (Studio Fuga)
Kazuo Nagai (Studio Fuga)
Nizo Yamamoto
Satoshi Kuroda (Studio Fuga)

Backgrounds:
Akira Yamakawa
Kiyomi Oota
Kyoko Naganawa
Naoko Sakimoto
Naoya Tanaka
Youji Takeshige

Character Color Design: Michiyo Yasuda

Editing: Takeshi Seyama

Finish Check:
Ikuyo Kimura
Noriko Ogawa
Teruyo Tateyama
Yuki Hisada
Yuriko Katayama

In-Between Animation:
Akiko Teshima
Atsuko Matsushita
Eimi Koori
Emiko Iwayanagi
Eriko Shibata
Etsuko Ishiwari
Hanako Yanagikawa
Hideki Ito
Hiroko Tezuka
Hiromi Namioka
Hiroyuki Inoue
Hisako Matsuda
Katsutoshi Nakamura
Kazuko Shibata
Kazumi Okabe
Kazutaka Ozaki
Ken'ichi Rokusha
Ken'ichi Yamada
Kenichi Konishi
Kenichi Yoshida
Kiyoko Makita
Koichi Asano
Kouji Shinozaki
Kumi Horii
Kumiko Ohta
Masahiko Adachi
Masanori Komatsu
Masashi Ando
Masaya Saito
Masayuki Shibuya
Mayumi Ohmura
Nobuko Sato
Reiko Mano
Rie Aratome
Rie Fujimura
Ritsuko Shiina
Sachiko Okada
Sadami Maemura
Seiko Higashi
Shinsaku Sasaki
Sumie Nishido
Takao Maki
Takehiro Noda
Tsuyoshi Konagawa
Yoko Kida
Yoko Nagashima
Yukari Yamaura
Yumiko Kitajima

Ink & Paint:
Chiyomi Morisawa (Studio Killy)
Eiko Fukuma (IM Studio)
Fumiko Ito (Trace Studio M)
Fumiko Watanabe (Trace Studio M)
Hiromi Takatani (Kyoto Animation)
Hisayo Fujiwara (IM Studio)
Ikuyo Kimura
Izumi Maeno (Trace Studio M)
Junko Mizuno (Studio Killy)
Junko Yoshikawa
Katsuo Negishi (IM Studio)
Keiko Goto (Studio Killy)
Keiko Suzuki (Domusha)
Mariko Konuma (IM Studio)
Mayumi Watanabe (Studio Killy)
Michiko Ota (Studio Killy)
Michiko Shibata (IM Studio)
Michiyo Iseda (IM Studio)
Mihoko Eda (Kyoto Animation)
Mika Tanifugi (Trace Studio M)
Minako Oshiro
Naomi Ikegaya (IM Studio)
Naomi Takahashi (Studio Killy)
Nobuko Watanabe (Studio Killy)
Noriko Ogawa
Reiko Godai (Trace Studio M)
Takako Sakai (Trace Studio M)
Teruyo Tateyama
Yasuko Furuhashi (Domusha)
Yasuko Suenaga (IM Studio)
Yoko Tanida (IM Studio)
Yukari Tajima (IM Studio)
Yuki Hisada
Yukiko Itou (Trace Studio M)
Yuriko Katayama

Key Animation:
Ai Kagawa
Atsuko Otani
Hiroomi Yamakawa
Hiroshi Shimizu
Junko Ikeda
Kenichi Yoshida
Kuniyuki Ishii
Mahiro Maeda
Makiko Nigi
Masaaki Endou
Masahiro Neriki
Masako Shinohara
Mitsuo Iso
Natsuyo Yasuda
Noriko Moritomo
Osamu Tanabe
Sachiko Sugino
Shinji Morohashi
Shinji Otsuka
Shinya Ohira
Toshiyuki Inoue
Yoshiyuki Hane

Photography:
Hiroshi Ito
Hiroshi Noguchi
Katsuji Suzuki
Katsunori Maehara
Kazumi Iketani
Mitsuko Nanba
Motoaki Ikegami
Naohisa Haijima
Noriko Suzuki
Shinji Ikegami
Tetsuo Oofuji
Tetsuya Anjo
Yoichi Kuroda

Planning:
Hideo Ogata
Shigeharu Shiba
Tatsumi Yamashita

Production Committee:
Akira Kaneko (Tokuma Shoten)
Atsushi Miura (Tokuma Shoten)
Hiromi Hoshino (Tokuma Shoten)
Hiroshi Morie (Hakuhodo)
Hiroyuki Kato (Tokuma Shoten)
Kazuo Watanabe (Hakuhodo)
Michio Yokoo (Tokuma Shoten)
Minoru Tadokoro (Tokuma Shoten)
Nobuko Suzuki (Hakuhodo)
Seiji Okuda (NTV)
Takeo Mutai (NTV)
Unkou Tanaka (Hakuhodo)
Yasuharu Urushido (NTV)
Yasuhiro Nousei (NTV)
Yuuko Zaizen (NTV)

Production Desk: Toshiyuki Kawabata

Production manager: Nozomu Takahashi

Sound Effects: Michihiro Ito

Sound Mixing: Shuji Inoue

Sound Recording: Naoko Asari

Theme Song Arrangement: Masaru Hoshi (ED)

Theme Song Composition: Amanda McBroom (ED, originally "The Rose")

Theme Song Lyrics: Isao Takahata (ED)

Theme Song Performance: Harumi Miyako (ED)

Visual Design: Yoshiyuki Momose

 

Miki Imai as Taeko Okajima (adult)

Toshiro Yanagiba as Toshio

Youko Honna as Taeko Okajima (5th grade)

Masahiro Itou as Taeko's Father

Michie Terada as Taeko's Mother

Yorie Yamashita as Nanako Okajima

Chie Kitagawa as Taeko's Grandmother

Hirozumi Satoh as Abe-kun

Kouji Gotou as Kazuo

Masako Watanabe as Naoko

Masashi Ishikawa as Suu

Mayumi Iizuka as Tsuneko Tani (debut)

Megumi Komine as Toko

Mei Oshitani as Aiko

Sachiko Ishikawa as Kiyoko

Shin Itou as Baccha

Takako Sendou as Toshio's Mother

Yoshihiro Furubayashi as Train station employee

Yukiyo Takizawa as Rie

Yuuki Masuda as Hirota

Yuuki Minowa as Yaeko

Issei Takahashi

Yoshimasa Kondo

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Studio Ghibli

Backgrounds: Studio Fuga

Development: Tokyo Laboratory

In-Between Animation:
Anime Torotoro
Dogakobo
Group Donguri
Oh production
Studio Cockpit

Ink & Paint:
Domusha
IM Studio
Kyoto Animation
Studio Killy
Trace Studio M

Music Production: Tokuma Japan

Photography: Studio Cosmos

Production:
Hakuhodo Inc.
Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV)
Tokuma Shoten

Production Studio: Studio Ghibli

Recording Studio: Tokyo TV Center

Sound Production: Omnibus Promotion

Technical Cooperation:
MURAO
Stac

English companies 
English staff 
(none)

Broadcaster: Turner Classic Movies

Distributor:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand)
Optimum Releasing (UK)

Licensed by: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney

English cast 
(none)
German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Angela Wiederhut as Taeko Okajima

Dirk Meyer as Student

Geraldine Haacke as Toko

Lara Wurmer as Taeko Okajima [Kind]

Luna Ragheb as Aiko

Melina Borcherding as Tsuneko Tani

Patrick Schröder as Toshio

Ruth Küllenberg as Taekos Großmutter

Susanne von Medvey as Taekos Mutter

Thomas Rauscher as Taekos Vater

German companies 

Annouced: Universum-Films

Dubbing: Film und Fernseh Synchron


Polish staff 
(none)
Polish companies 

Distributor: Monolith Films

Polish cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Deltamac (Taiwan) Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
Chinese (Hong Kong) staff 
Chinese (Hong Kong) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Intercontinental Video Limited

Chinese (Hong Kong) cast 
(none)
 
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