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[[File:onlyyesterday.jpg|frame|Present & Past Taeko]]
It's 1982 and [[Christmas Cake|27-year old unmarried]] Taeko Okajima works as an [[Office Lady]] in Tokyo. She decides to spend her summer holiday at her sister-in-law's farm in the countryside to help out with the safflower harvest, since she liked going there the year before. She sees it as a great way to get a break from the city life for a while.
During her trip she gets overcome with memories of when she was 10 years old and in fifth grade. In a series of flashbacks, imaginatively interwoven with her current life, a picture forms of her youth, filled with math problems, friends, boys and the typical throes of a girl growing up. It results in her wondering whether she is being true to her own nature in life, since she wanted to be in the country as a little girl already.
''[[Only Yesterday]]'', Japanese title '''''Omoide Poro Poro''''' (おもひでぽろぽろ), was released in 1991 and is a typical [[Studio Ghibli]] product--minus the fantastic plot devices that permeate most of the studio's work. It was directed by [[Isao Takahata]] and produced by [[Hayao Miyazaki]]. The result features [[Scenery Porn|lots of lovely scenery]], intriguing, believable characters and wonderful, fluid animation.
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* [[Adorkable]]: Toshio. Clumsy, not terribly intelligent, a little too forward, and generally a bit of a hick, but very friendly and eager to put others at ease. He proudly declares himself a peasant and listens to strange Hungarian folk music.
* [[Author Tract]]: The movie is filled with monologues about the importance of Japanese farm life.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Young Taeko does her daily exercises listening to a "Suny" radio.
* [[Call to Agriculture]]
* [[Christmas Cake]]: Taeko's mother is annoyed that she turned down a marriage proposal, saying "at 27, that's the best she's going to get".
* [[City Mouse]]: Taeko, obviously.
* [[Coming of Age Story]]: In a double dose--once when Taeko was a child, and another at a later age.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Taeko to one of the younger girls on the farm.
* [[Family Theme Naming]]: Taeko and her older sister, Yaeko.
* [[Ghibli Hills]]: You have to ask?
*: {{spoiler|[[I Choose to Stay]]}}
* [[Imagine Spot]]: Loads as Young Taeko, a bit less as an adult.
* [[Iyashikei]]
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted. Girls discuss their periods. Boys discuss the girls' periods. Girls chase boys with brooms.
** Played straight by The Walt Disney Company, [[No Export for You|who haven't released ''Only Yesterday'' in the US for this reason.]] The addition of a [[Furo Scene]] doesn't help, either.
* [[Real Place Background]]: Eidan Marunouchisen subway, Uenoeki Station and the some of the countryside.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: As usual for a Ghibli movie, but this one delivers some lovely scenes involving safflower.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Lots of details from 1960's culture (including [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]) and the Subaru R-2 subcompact car.
* [[Shout-Out]]: A visual one for [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T]]. Doesn't make sense in context.
** The dress Taeko wears as a little girl is the exact same dress Satsuki wears in [[My Neighbor Totoro]].
** In one scene, Taeko watches and sings the theme song from ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMApzGKRPB8 Floating Gourd Island]'', an actual Japanese children's puppet show from [[The Sixties]].
* [[Slice of Life]]
* [[The Stoic]]: Taeko's dad
* [[Written Sound Effect]]: The Japanese title, roughly ''Trickling-Rain Memories''. Taeko's memories of her childhood come trickling back to her in this fashion.
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