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Isao Takahata directed Only Yesterday, released in Japan on the 20th of July, 1991. The film is based on the 1982 manga Omoide Poro Poro by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuko Tone and was animated by Studio Ghibli.
Only Yesterday follows Taeko Okajima, a twenty-seven-year-old office worker in 1982 Tokyo, as she travels to rural Yamagata to help with the safflower harvest. During her stay, she revisits vivid memories of her childhood in 1966 and develops feelings for a farmer named Toshio.
Walt Disney Studios held the North American distribution rights to Studio Ghibli's catalog and declined to release Only Yesterday because of its candid treatment of menstruation in the childhood flashback sequences. The film remained the only theatrical Studio Ghibli feature without a North American home video release until GKIDS acquired the rights and released an English dub in 2016.
Only Yesterday received its first English-language release on the 26th of February, 2016, distributed by GKIDS to mark the film's 25th anniversary. Daisy Ridley voiced the adult Taeko, Dev Patel voiced Toshio, and the cast also included Alison Fernandez, Laura Bailey, and Ashley Eckstein.
Only Yesterday holds a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 63 critics and a score of 90 out of 100 on Metacritic from 19 critics, a score the site describes as indicating universal acclaim. Roger Ebert called it "a touching, melancholy meditation on the life of the same woman at ages 10 and 27," and Nicolas Rapold of The New York Times described it as "psychologically acute."
Isao Takahata organized the score around three pillars: brief musical fragments tied to Taeko's childhood flashbacks, Eastern European folk music including the Bulgarian Women's Chorus and works by Gheorghe Zamfir, and introspective piano and string compositions. The closing theme is Takahata's own Japanese translation of Amanda McBroom's song The Rose, performed by enka singer Harumi Miyako.