Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday

Cast: Miki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba, Youko Honna
Director: Isao Takahata
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Rated: PG
Running Time: 119 minutes

Synopsis: From Academy Award®-nominated director Isao Takahata and general producer Hayao Miyazaki, Only Yesterday is a masterpiece of time and tone, rich with humour and stirring emotion, and beautifully animated by one of the world's most revered animation studios.

It's 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her relatives 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.

Now, in celebration of its 25th anniversary, this critically acclaimed Studio Ghibli favourite returns to cinemas for a limited-time, in both English language and - exclusive to Cinema Nova - original Japanese language with English subtitles.

The new English-language soundtrack features the voices of Daisy Ridley and Dev Patel.

Only Yesterday
Release Date: May 5th, 2016