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Only Yesterday
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #79
- IMDb #135
- Google retired #199
- Metacritic #19
- Letterboxd #129
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #6
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- Metacritic Critics #19
- Metacritic Audience #55
- Criticker #17
- Kinopoisk #92
- AlloCiné #186
- Trakt #210
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 68, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100. Critics average 95, everyone else 79.
See the most agreed on films →A 27-year-old unmarried woman travels from Tokyo to the countryside for a holiday. During her trip, she is flooded with memories of her fifth-grade self, reflecting on her childhood aspirations and the person she has become, searching for a connection between her past and her present.
Details
- Director
- Isao Takahata
- Writer
- Isao Takahata
- Released
- 20 July 1991
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese, Bulgarian
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Rated
- PG
- Box office
- $473.1K
- Awards
- 2 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →2 wins from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| 15th Japan Academy Prize 1991 | Popularity Award | Only Yesterday | Winner |
| 9th Annual Golden Gross Award 1991 | Excellence Award | Only Yesterday | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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