Only Yesterday (Pmohide Poro Poro) is a romance animé from 1991 and directed by Isao Takahata. The film was released on 20 July 1991. This film when her dreams when she is child.
Plot
Plot
In 1982, Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, has lived her whole life in Tokyo and now works at a company there. She decides to take another trip to visit the family of the elder brother of her brother-in-law in the rural countryside to help with the safflower harvest and get away from city life. While traveling at night on a [sleeper train to Yamagata, she begins to recall memories of herself as a schoolgirl in 1966, and her intense desire to go on holiday like her classmates, all of whom have family outside of the big city.
At the arrival train station, she is surprised to find out that her brother in law's second cousin Toshio, whom she barely knows, is the one who came to pick her up. During her stay in Yamagata, she finds herself increasingly nostalgic and wistful for her childhood self, while simultaneously wrestling with adult issues of career and love. The trip dredges up forgotten memories (not all of them good ones) — the first stirrings of childish romance, puberty and growing up, the frustrations of math and boys. In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self. In doing so, she begins to realize that Toshio has helped her along the way. Finally, Taeko faces her own true self, how she views the world and the people around her. Taeko chooses to stay in the countryside instead of returning to Tokyo. It is implied that she and Toshio begin a relationship.
Voice Cast
Japanese
- Taeko Okajima - Miki Imai
- Toshio - Toshiro Yanagiba
- Young Taeko - Yoko Honna
- Tsuneko - Mayumi Iizuka
- Aiko - Mei Oshitani
- Toko - Megumi Komine
- Rie - Yukiyo Takizawa
- Soo - Masashi Ishikawa
- Shuji Hirota - Yuuki Masuda
- Mrs. Okajima - Michie Terada
- Mr. Okajima - Masahiro Ito
- Nanako - Yorie Yamashita
- Grandmother Okajima - Chie Kitagawa
- Kazuo - Koji Goto
- Kiyoko - Sachiko Hirokouji
- Naoko - Masako Watanabe
- Abe - Hirozumi Sato
Additional Voices
- Yoshimasa Kondo
- Issey Takahashi
Uncredited
- Torahige - Ichiro Nagai
English Dub
Cast
- Taeko - Daisy Ridley
- Toshio - Dev Patel
- Young Taeko - Alison Fernandez
Young Taeko's Classmates
- Tsuneko - Hope Levy
- Aiko - Stephanie Sheh
- Toko - Ava Acres
- Rie - Madeleine Rose Yen
- Suzuki ("Soo") - Jaden Betts
- Hirota - Gianella Thielmann
Taeko's Family in Tokyo
- Taeko's Mother - Grey Griffin
- Taeko's Father - Matt Yang King
- Nanako - Laura Bailey
- Yaeko - Ashley Eckstein
- Grandmother - Mona Marshall
Taeko's Relatives in Yamagata
- Kazuo - Matt Yang King
- Kiyoko - Sumalee Montano
- Naoko - Tara Strong
- Granny - Nika Futterman
Additional Voice Cast
- Kyle Arem, Alex Cazares, Jacob Guenther, Cherami Leigh, Yuri Lowenthal, Genesis Ochoa, Tara Sands, Kirk Thornton
Uncredited
- Torahige - Greg Grunberg
Release
- 20 July 1991 Movie theater
- 1 January 1997 Original VHS release
- 1999 American VHS release
- 2003 Newer DVD release
- 2006 DVD release by Optinum
- 4 September 2015 Swedish Movie theater
- 1 January 2016 American DVD release
English Dub
On January 1, 2016, an English version was released by GKIDS at the IFC Center in New York, and expanded to other theaters nationwide starting February 26.