Playing at the Century Cinemark Rio 24

Director and Screenplay: Isao Takahata – 1993 – 118m – Japan

Aug 28 Sunday at 7:00pm (English dub)

Aug 29 Monday at 7:00 pm (In Japanese with English subtitles) 

It’s 1982, and Taeko (Daisy Ridley) 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 (Dev Patel), and the encounters with him begin to reconnect her to forgotten longings. In lyrical switches between the present and the past (1966), Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

From Academy Award®-nominated director Isao Takahata (The Tale of The Princess Kaguya) and general producer Hayao Miyazaki, Only Yesterday is a masterpiece of time and tone, rich with humor and stirring emotion, and beautifully animated by one of the world’s most revered animation studios. Critically acclaimed but never before released in North America, the film received a national theatrical release in a new, Studio Ghibli-produced, English-language version in celebration of its 25th anniversary in 2018.

As always, please propagate these screenings to anyone you think would be interested.

Jaa ne,

Paul

NMJACL chapter resident J-movie otaku