Wednesday, 29 April 2015

The countryside, periods and baseball

Only Yesterday (1991)

Directed by Isao Takahata this film based on the manga of the same name has voice acting from Miki Imai, Toshiro Yanagiba and Yoko Honna. An office worker heads to a farm in the country for her holiday and reminisces about when she was a 10 year old school girl.

This is a fairly slow moving but enjoyable film about two different points in a woman's life. The plot is a down to earth slice of life story that never gets melodramatic but keeps you entertained through out. Some of the scenes involving the younger protagonist devolve into excessive blushing but otherwise there are very few genre clichés here.


3/5

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