
Only Yesterday(1991)
I'm going on a trip with Me.
In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.




Movie: Only Yesterday
Top 10 Billed Cast
Father (voice)
Yaeko (voice)
Mother (voice)
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