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Only Yesterday

Where:

 Yamagata Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture

When:

 The 1960s The 1980s

I’m going on a trip with Me — 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.

Released in 1991 — 118 minutes

Genres:

 Animation Drama Romance

Language:

 Japanese