“Only Yesterday” Review

Only Yesterday: Directed by Isao Takahata. With Miki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yoko Honna, Michie Terada. A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.

As a retrospective of a life, this is a good one, if somewhat hindered by the fact that the lady is only 27 years old and hasn’t really lived her complete life yet. This is best thought of as “what was my life up to now and where will I go now that I know where I’ve been”, but boy I was disappointed that they left so many dangling threads to her life’s story. Does she ever go back to the farm? Does she decide to stay? If she doesn’t stay at the farm, what’s her life in the city like?

Guess it’s like real life where there’s plenty of open questions, but not many answers.

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