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Only Yesterday is a 1991 animation drama film, directed by Isao Takahata, starring Miki Imai, Yoko Honna and Toshiro Yanagiba.
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60 of 191 · most liked firstThe Ghibli movie Only Yesterday is so underrated
positive · AI labelView post →The movie Only Yesterday is a painfully underrated Ghibli
positive · AI labelView post →Only Yesterday is boring as fuck but that’s also what makes it a sublime movie and probably the best film in the entire Ghibli catalogue. Also horrifying how the movie treats the main character like she’s having a middle-age crisis but she’s only *27 years old*
positive · AI labelView post →Huge news for John M. Stahl-heads. ONLY YESTERDAY, the pre-code version of LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN LETTER, has finally been restored by Universal and will premiere on DCP in December in LA. The film has only been available on 35mm prints and awful VHS rips.
neutral · AI labelView post →accidentally ate peanuts like 10 minutes into sitting down for Only Yesterday and had one of the most visceral albeit beautiful movie experiences of my life.. cried and sobbed and that was on top of the allergic reaction
positive · AI labelView post →Anyway, Only Yesterday is my favorite Isao Takahata film, and if you haven't seen it, you should check it out immediately.
positive · AI labelView post →🍍NEW VIDEO ALERT!🍍 I, sort of, recently watched the movie Only Yesterday. And it left me with a lot of thoughts about I interact with my own "nostalgia". So I wrote a video talking about it a bit. It's a good movie, so I also really gush about it! youtu.be/cuu5qrKACBA
positive · AI labelView post →Watched the GKIDS theatrical screening of Only Yesterday Never seen it before! Holy shit what a beautiful movie, 10/10 I really have to go through all the “slower” Ghibli films (as so described to me as a kid) now that I’m, like, old and this stuff hits extremely hard
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight! I will be watching the next film in my Studio Ghibli marathon, Only Yesterday!
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally saw Studio Ghibli's Only Yesterday. It's a beautiful movie about being an ageing adult and reflecting the childhood events that influenced who you became. Quiet and tender.
positive · AI labelView post →Daily Sketch: Taeko and Toshio from the movie "Only Yesterday". I finally finished the movie, watched it in parts for my work breaks. The ending almost made me cry but a happy cry. Ghibli movies show love in a different way. Without having to be all super intimate. It's refreshing. #tradigital #art
neutral · AI labelView post →wrote a review for Only Yesterday, or, the really really fucking good isao takahata movie that for some reason i hadn't heard of till patty wanted to start going through the whole ghibli lineup together. It's really good. letterboxd.com/pocketdeer/f...
positive · AI labelView post →Only Yesterday! An underrated Studio Ghibli gem. Quietly devastating, and easily one of my top ten films of all time. (On that note, every single film directed by Isao Takahata is wonderful… even Grave Of The Fireflies, which I‘ll probably never recover from.)
positive · AI labelView post →Another Studio Ghibli movie night! We’re watching Only Yesterday!
neutral · AI labelView post →Fave Ghibli film? I feel like it’s a deep cut, but it’s gotta be Only Yesterday for me
positive · AI labelView post →Why'd nobody ever tell me how good Only Yesterday is wtf... I've seen nearly every ghibli movie dozens of times and only just tonight saw this one and it hit me so crazy man AUUGHHH
positive · AI labelView post →#letterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky Only Yesterday is an immediate all timer for me End of Oak Street felt like a 90s Amblin film in the best ways Nightcrawler is even more relevant today and still mad Gyllenhaal got snubbed Furiosa is even better on rewatch. Movie deserved better
positive · AI labelView post →On this day in 1991, 35 years ago, Takahata Isao's second Ghibli film Only Yesterday was released in Japan!
neutral · AI labelView post →My moon story was a little inspired by Inuyasha, Escaflowne, and Balder’s Gate 3 (thank you druids). My track story was inspired a bit by Cherry Magic, the Ghibli movie Only Yesterday, and my real life longing for more cute romance stories for adults!! #bluepit #bluepithype #comics #graphicnovel
neutral · AI labelView post →Streaming services cutting off / minimizing movies when the credits roll is astonishingly destructive to some films. For instance, the Takahata-directed Ghibli film Only Yesterday, where the whole story changes course in the credits! Is that kind of flourish now just a standardized impossibility?
positive · AI labelView post →New Year’s Eve rabbit hole: first, my favorite auld-lang-syne movie, John M. Stahl’s Only Yesterday, is still awaiting a proper home-video and streaming release; then,… www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
neutral · AI labelView post →Margaret Sullavan and John Boles in “Only Yesterday” (1933). Directed by John Stahl. Sullavan’s film debut.
neutral · AI labelView post →Only Yesterday is the kind of movie you watch with the girl you love and in the last 30 seconds you both start crying and go “ah what is happening to my heart”
positive · AI labelView post →Next Ghibli movie is Only Yesterday, which promises to be not as depressing as Grave of the Fireflies, but still some degree of depressing realism (I’ve never seen it).
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Holidays, Shoujo Fans! In our last episode of the year, @gianaluna.bsky.social & @chikasupreme.bsky.social got very emotional watching Only Yesterday for the first time. We hope the next year will bring you closer to your inner child 🍨 linktr.ee/shoujosundae
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite is probably Spirited Away, but imo Only Yesterday might be the most interesting. I'm aware the Earthsea movie is bad but haven't seen it. So I might make people sad but I'm not really sold on Ponyo.
positive · AI labelView post →fourth #letterboxdfriday of july and my #lastfourwatched were Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026) Violent Streets (1974) Room 203 (2022) Only Yesterday (1991)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: Only Yesterday. I’ve been playing Japanese Rural Life Adventure, a charming game about moving to a rural Japanese village, & it put my in mind to rewatch this charming movie about a woman moving to a rural Japanese village
positive · AI labelView post →Ranking the 70 Ghibli scenes that affect me the most. One a day. #11 is "sunny days...or cloudy days" in Only Yesterday. A true meet cute in a movie about all the little moments that make us who we are.
neutral · AI labelView post →And here's a list just of anime guaranteed to make me CRY Catnapped! Crayon Shin-chan: The Adult Empire Strikes Back Crayon Shin-chan: The Battle of the Warring States Junkers Come Here [TITLE WITHHELD] Minky Momo S2 final arc Only Yesterday Ringing Bell Space Warrior Baldios (movie) Windaria
neutral · AI labelView post →Only Yesterday is a delightful movie, ty Playtest Zero for y'alls Ghibli rankings
positive · AI labelView post →Only Yesterday Probably the most unique Ghibli film I've seen yet. Really potent, human story. Another down-to-earth ghibli film that knocks it out of the park. The dub was gooood, but probably would have preferred the Japanese.
positive · AI labelView post →What is a movie you love from 1991? One of my favourites from that year is ‘Only Yesterday’. 👍
positive · AI labelView post →Watching a new-to-me creaker from Universal in 1933, ONLY YESTERDAY, with John Boles and his teeny mustache. And thankfully #FuckYeah Edna May Oliver! With the kind compliments of my friend @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social #Plex server.
neutral · AI labelView post →10 films to get to know me: - Young Frankenstein - Bride of Frankenstein - Hedwig and the Angry Inch - The Tale of Princess Kaguya - Batman: The Movie - Flash Gordon - The Blues Brothers - Little Shop of Horrors - Only Yesterday - Cabaret
neutral · AI labelView post →1990s, one Japanese film per year 90 Dreams 91 Only Yesterday 92 Porco Rosso 93 Rex: A Dinosaur’s Story 94 Pom Poko 95 Gamera: Guardian of the Universe 96 Shall We Dance? 97 Princess Mononoke 98 Doraemon Comes Back 99 Round About Midnight
neutral · AI labelView post →I looked up my favorite movie, Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), so that gives me 91-95. Also gives me Beauty & the Beast, Only Yesterday, Aladdin, Terminator 2, Police Story 3: Super Cop, The Fugitive, Jurassic Park, Groundhog Day, Speed... yeah, I can live with this.
neutral · AI labelView post →I am right, Only Yesterday best Ghibli movie of all time!!!
positive · AI labelView post →Check out my thoughts on Studio Ghibli's little-known classic: Only Yesterday. This is a brilliant film about the unstoppable march of time and how are past affects our present. Don't sleep on it #blutoid #StudioGhibli www.pillowfort.social/posts/5711341 lord-spencer.blogspot.com/2024/12/stud...
positive · AI labelView post →Watching all the Studio Ghibli films in chronological order because I’ve heard they’re excellent. Only Yesterday (1991) is a film about a 27 year old woman reminiscing about her childhood in 1960s Japan. I found it rather slow and hard to connect with. Not my fave. Rating: 5/10
negative · AI labelView post →Outside of Princess Kaguya, I’ve been relatively unfamiliar with Isao Takahata’s work. Started fixing that with Only Yesterday. A lovely little movie that had me thinking “it’s almost been 20 years since I was a fifth grader” among other things about growing older.
positive · AI labelView post →every day of 2026, I'll post an animated film. 0️⃣2️⃣9️⃣ ONLY YESTERDAY (1991) dir. Isao Takahata While visiting the countryside, a 27-year-old reminisces about her life. Produced by Studio Ghibli.
neutral · AI labelView post →Only Yesterday (the best ghibli film)
positive · AI labelView post →Having seen about 1/3 of the Studio Ghibli movies chronologically, my favorite Miyazaki movie so far is “My Neighbor Totoro” (this is pure nostalgia though) and my favorite Takahata movie is I think “Only Yesterday.”
positive · AI labelView post →- The Last Unicorn - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - The Trouble With Harry - Only Yesterday - The Iron Giant This one was hard because I always immediately forget every movie I’ve ever seen 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →My Nana Sophie’s favorite movie star was John Boles. He absolutely held a fascination for moviegoers of that era – one that really doesn’t hold up a century later. I wish they had shown ‘Only Yesterday.’ He’s still doing shallow and insincere, but he’s also got a little sexual energy. 🤷♂️ #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →Recommending a full year of animated movies, day 134. My 53rd best animated film is Only Yesterday. Isao Takahata’s movie about how the quiet moments are what makes us who we are, and how we need to find our community to make ourselves whole. If Miyazaki is Ghibli‘s Kurosawa, then Takahata is their…
positive · AI labelView post →Got to see Only Yesterday in theaters today, such an underrated Ghibli movie 🩷 one of my favorites! The way it portrayed young love was especially endearing
positive · AI labelView post →I am so happy. Ghibli Fest 2026 has a Ghibli film by Isao Takahata, “Only Yesterday”. Hayao Miyazaki spoke to children and Takahata spoke to adults. Teamwork. #Anime gkids.com/ghiblifest/
neutral · AI labelView post →Remembering underrated Oscar/Emmy-nominated classic film, radio & stage actress Margaret Sullavan on her 117th birthday, known for films ONLY YESTERDAY, THE GOOD FAIRY, THREE COMRADES, THE SHOPWORM ANGEL, THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, THE MORTAL STORM, and CRY 'HAVOC', and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →Revisited Studio Ghibli’s Only Yesterday. Such a great movie. Clearly longs for the rural life and the old ways without idealizing the past or glossing over how hard farm work is. Just a very rich movie.
positive · AI labelView post →16. Only Yesterday (1991). An intensely Japanese slice of life movie. It’s fine, if you like the genre! I find it a little slow.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie is Only Yesterday, by Isao Takahata
neutral · AI labelView post →The best weird fly-by-night ebook cover I've seen recently is an edition of Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday, a history of the Great Depression in the U.S., sporting what appeared to be a still from a Studio Ghibli movie also called Only Yesterday...
neutral · AI labelView post →Round 5 of my Ghibli marathon, it’s Only Yesterday! An early Ghibli movie that never had an official dub until very recently, which is pretty crazy! I saw this when the dub first came out, but it’s been a while!
neutral · AI labelView post →To celebrate Hayao Miyazaki's final film 'How Do You Live?' we return to Studio Ghibli this week, with a show on Porco Rosso, Pom Poko, Only Yesterday, Ocean Waves and Whisper of the Heart.
neutral · AI labelView post →October: In Only Yesterday, Taeko reflects on her childhood in 1966 and compares it with her listless current life. One memory early in the film is of a brief trip to the hot spring town of Atami. She travels there on the then-new shinkansen (bullet train), which began service on 1 October 1964.
neutral · AI labelView post →Get ready to reconnect with your 10-year-old self... because we’re about to face some of the most embarrassing (and transcendent) childhood memories in movie history as if they happened ONLY YESTERDAY!
neutral · AI labelView post →Spell a film you love with the first letters of other films you love. Birds, The It’s Such a Beautiful Day Ran Domestic Violence 2 Stop Making Sense Only Yesterday From the Life of the Marionettes Portrait of a Lady on Fire Rumble Fish Elephant Sitting Still, An You Were Never Really Here ( 1/4
neutral · AI labelView post →Greetings all, I wanted to do a picture inspired by the Studio Ghibli film, Only Yesterday. I hope you all like it! #Artist #Artwork #DailyArt #studioghibli #sketch
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