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Only Yesterday (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
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Product Title: Only Yesterday (Japan Version - English Subtitles) 歲月的童話 (日本版 - 英文字幕) 岁月的童话 (日本版 - 英文字幕) おもいでぽろぽろ (日本版) Only Yesterday (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
Artist Name(s): Miyazaki Hayao | Ito Masaharu | Chie Kitagawa | Yuki Minowa | Honna Yoko | Yorie Yamashita 宮崎駿 | Masahiro Ito | Chie Kitagawa | Yuki Minowa | 本名陽子 | Yorie Yamashita 宫崎骏 | Ito Masaharu | Chie Kitagawa | Yuki Minowa | Honna Yoko | Yorie Yamashita 宮崎駿 | 伊藤正博 | 北川智絵 | 三野輪有紀 | 本名陽子 | 山下容里枝 Miyazaki Hayao | Masahiro Ito | Chie Kitagawa | Yuki Minowa | Honna Yoko | Yorie Yamashita
Director: Takahata Isao Takahata Isao Takahata Isao 高畑勲 Takahata Isao
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Release Date: 2003-03-06
Publisher Product Code: VWDZ-8024
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Japanese, English
Country of Origin: Japan
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 2 - Japan, Europe, South Africa, Greenland and the Middle East (including Egypt) What is it?
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1002531655

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タイトル:おもひでぽろぽろ
出演:今井美樹/柳葉敏郎/本名陽子/寺田路恵/伊藤正博/北川智絵/山下容里枝/三野輪有紀/飯塚雅弓
監督:高畑勲

田舎での生活を通じ自分に大切な"何か"を見つけていく女性の姿を描いた高畑勲監督による大ヒット作。

1982年、東京。現在の生活になんとなく物足りなさを感じているタエ子は27歳。東京生まれで東京育ちのタエ子にとって田舎は憧れの場所。10日間の休暇を取り、姉の結婚で出来た山形の親戚の家へと旅立つ。しかしタエ子には奇妙な連れがいた。姉さんたちとの思い出話をきっかけに現れた過去の"ワタシ"がどうしても脳裏から離れない。1966年、東京。当時10歳のタエ子にとっては些細な日常でさえも切実で真剣な出来事。給食、初恋、分数の割り算、懐かしくもはがゆい数々の記憶が甦り、現在の自分に問いかけてくる。小学5年生。それは女の子が一つの階段を上っていく、さなぎの季節なのかもしれない。そして今、自分にまたさなぎの時期が巡ってきたのだろうか。タエ子は思いをはせていく。山形に到着したタエ子を迎えたのは、有機農業に情熱を燃やす青年・トシオ。タエ子は時には真剣に、時にはくだけて農業のこと、自然のことを教えてくれるトシオに好意を抱きながら、田舎の生活に身を浸していく。しかし、明日東京に帰るという日に、本家の婆っちゃの突然の言葉がタエ子を驚かす。思いがけない申し出に動揺し、タエ子はたまらず家を飛び出してしまう…。
岡本螢(原作)&刀根夕子(漫画)の「おもひでぽろぽろ」を高畑勲(監督)&宮崎駿(プロデューサー)の名コンビでアニメ化。1991年の公開時には幅広い世代に大反響を呼ぶ中、特に主人公・タエ子と同世代の20代の女性達から高い評価を獲得し、'91年度邦画No.1(配収18億7000万円)という記録を生みました。声優陣には多くの女性から支持されている今井美樹と柳葉敏郎を抜擢。作画を行う前に声を録音し、そのビデオ映像を見ながら俳優の仕草を生かそうというプレスコ方式を採用。今井、柳葉の両俳優の独特で親しみやすい声と相まって、とても自然で温かい雰囲気を実現しました。田舎の自然とそこに生きる人々に触れ、自分に大切な"何か"を見つけていくタエ子の姿は、見る人の心に温かい共感を呼び覚まします。また、都はるみが歌う主題歌やトシオが聞いている東欧の民族音楽など、監督の音楽選びの妙も光ります。

映像特典:絵コンテ映像(マルチアングルで本編とリンク・119分)/劇場予告編/「Making of おもひでぽろぽろ」(1991年度TV放送作品を再編集・46分)

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画面:16:9/4:3(LB)
言語/音声::DD(ステレオ)

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著作権:(C)岡本螢・刃根夕子・TNHG/1991
備考:2枚組/マルチアングル
日本小売価格:\4700

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Professional Review of "Only Yesterday (Japan Version - English Subtitles)"

April 24, 2006

This professional review refers to Only Yesterday
Childhood is a time of powerlessness. Children are dependent and beholden on their parents. Childhood is often governed by familial forces that seem brutally unfair. As we move into adulthood, we nostalgically long for those carefree days forgetting that rules by which we were governed were frequently confusing and inscrutable. Director Isao Takahata explored some of these themes in Grave of the Fireflies. He returns to these them in a gentler, though no less powerful way in Only Yesterday.

Okajima Taeko is an office worker who comes across as a little aloof from her co-workers. As she embarks on her holiday, Okasjima's story is intercut with memories of her childhood. These reminiscences reveal the young Okajima as far less academically inclined than her two older sisters. Okajima deals stoically with the air of disappointment that her family projects at her underachievement. This is one of the frustrations of childhood. The sense that we cannot do the right thing in our parent's eyes, yet are powerless to do anything about it.

Okajima's reminiscence is broken by her arrival at the farm. There, she embraces the hard, repetitive work of picking safflowers, flowers used for dyeing clothes that ironically, only the rich could afford, not the peasant girls who picked them.

Only Yesterday is full of these stories of life's small frustrations and disappointments and a child's seeming invulnerability: the young Okajima is the only one he remains in town while her friends go on holidays at the anticipation then the disappointment of eating a fresh not canned pineapple. These beautiful vignettes capture those almost forgotten feelings where small events take on huge significance in a child's life.

Only Yesterday marvellously captures the feeling of life in Japan both past and present. It shows us family dynamics and social rituals that are both familiar yet at the same time culturally different. There is something compelling to Okajima's joyful desire to work on a farm for holidays and her poignant childhood memories trigger one's own empathy gland. If this was all Only Yesterday did, it would be a fine film. However, it is a Studio Ghibli film and Okajima's childhood stories subtlety impact on her adult life, a life that has engendered her with unacknowledged feelings of dissatisfaction.

Only Yesterday is a deeply human film. It shows us things about ourselves and influences on our lives we have little time to acknowledge. Okajima's epiphany has far more power than Vin Diesel's whole back catalog and her change, although small, is profound in its understanding of people's need to belong and choose a life that is meaningful and productive.

If you have only been exposed to Myazaki's masterpieces, you are missing half of what Studio Ghibli is about. While Myazaki leans toward fantasy and epic, Studio Ghibli's smaller, more intimate and personal films show that there is no scale they cannot do.

10 windy days out of 10

by Andrew Symons - heroic-cinema.com

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Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 6 - 6.5 out of 10 (2)

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July 20, 2006

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A little boring Customer Review Rated Bad 6 - 6 out of 10
This anime is about a lady in her late twenties traving back to her hometown for a visit. During her travel, she sees things around her that reminds her of her childhood, bitter and sweet. She eventually reaches her hometown and meets her family and even other people. A romance developes later... It's a pretty cute story but a little boring because I was expecting something more exciting...
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March 11, 2005

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Good story Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7 out of 10
This is a very good cartoon. The ending with the couple could be more clear and better! It could be better if there are conversations with happiness between the lovers instead of pure music without anyone talking!!
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