Tears of Memory - Only Yesterday

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Anime movie
title Tears of Memory - Only Yesterday
Original title お も ひ で ぽ ろ ぽ ろ
transcription Omohide Poro Poro
Omohide poro-poro title.jpg
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1991
Studio Studio Ghibli
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Isao Takahata
script Isao Takahata
production Hayao Miyazaki ,
Toshio Suzuki
music Katsu Hoshi
synchronization

Tears of Memory - Only Yesterday ( Japanese お も ひ で ぽ ろ ぽ ろ Omohide Poro Poro ) is an anime film from 1991 based on a manga by Hotaru Okamoto and Yūko Tone . Isao Takahata directed the animation and Studio Ghibli designed the animation . The film describes a Japanese woman who remembers her childhood as a ten-year-old student during a trip to the country.

action

Taeko, 27, is an office worker in Tokyo in 1982 . Although her family pushes her to marry, she is single. Taeko, who has lived in Tokyo since she was born, would like to leave the big city for a few days and go away to take a little vacation. Her sister Nanako suggests that she visit her husband's family, as he originally came from a farming family in the countryside in Yamagata Prefecture in northern Japan. On the way there, she regains memories of her childhood in the fifth grade of elementary school. Among other things, she remembers her first love.

At the end of her journey, she is greeted by young Toshio, who immediately tells her about life as a farmer. Taeko is happy to help the family with the harvest. Again and again memories of her school days emerge, which she often tells Toshio. Many of these memories, some of them painful and some happy, deal with the differences and contrasts between the city and the country.

She is very fond of her sister's husband's family and wants her to stay in the country, help with the farm and marry Toshio. Taeko doesn't know if she's ready to take such a big step and gets on the train to Tokyo. She gets off at the next stop and drives back to stay in the country and lead a life with Toshio.

History of origin

From manga to film

The film's original, a Shōjo manga for girls, only deals with the experiences of ten-year-old Taeko. The author Hotaru Okamoto wrote the story, the illustrator Yūko Tone realized her story in drawn form. The Seirindō publishing house, which is best known for publishing the alternative manga magazine Garo , first published the 350-page manga in 1988. From 1990, after it was announced that Isao Takahata wanted to film the comic, the manga, which is often compared to Chibi Maruko-chan and Crayon Shin-chan , was reprinted several times in Japan.

Isao Takahata, who caused a stir in 1988 with his anti-war film The Last Glowworms , wrote the screenplay, but not only focused on the ten-year-old described in the manga, but changed the plot so that an adult remembers her childhood. When Takahata approached production companies and producers with the story, he initially met with rejection because the story was too "normal". However, Takahata's longtime friend Hayao Miyazaki decided to step in as a producer for Tears of Memory .

production

The completion of the film was originally planned for the fall of 1990, because it should come to Japanese theaters in November. However, production was delayed until June 1991 and finally lasted 15 months; The camera recordings alone took six months. The reason for the unexpected delay was that Takahata wanted the animation to be as realistic as possible. Takahata drove to Yamagata with a team of 17 to better assess the landscapes and the lives of the farmers. Above all, the movements of the characters should be realistic. Wrinkles should be visible - as is otherwise unusual in anime. The behavior, for example laughter, was partly taken from the respective voice actors of the characters.

The voice actors selected were people (mostly actors) who corresponded to the age of the characters. Miki Imai took on the role of Taeko, Yōko Honna spoke Taeko as a child. Toshio was dubbed by the actor Toshirō Yanagiba . The famous anime artist and director Yoshifumi Kondō , who was responsible for the character design for the series Anne with the red hair and for The Last Fireflies , was the character designer for the film.

Katsu Hoshi studied the film's music with a 28-piece orchestra. The theme song with the name Ai wa Hana, Kimi wa sono Tane ( 愛 は 花 、 君 は そ の 種子 ), sung by Miyako Harumi , is a Japanese translation of the song The Rose by the American singer Bette Midler, written by Amanda McBroom .

synchronization

The film was dubbed at Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Berlin . Frank Lenart directed the dialogue.

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) English speaker German speaker
Taeko Okajima Miki Imai Daisy Ridley Angela Wiederhut
Taeko as a child Youko Honna Alison Fernandez Lara Wurmer
Toshio Toshirō Yanagiba Dev Patel Patrick Schröder
Mr. Okajima Masahiro Ito Matthew Yang King Thomas Rauscher
Mrs. Okajima Michie Terada Gray Griffin Susanne von Medvey
Nanako Okajima Yorie Yamashita Laura Bailey Jana Schölermann
Toko Megumi Komine Ava Acres Geraldine Haacke-Guillaume
granny Shin Ito Nika Futterman Ruth Küllenberg
Aiko Mei Oshitani Stephanie Sheh Luna Ragheb
Tsuneko Tani Mayumi Iizuka Hope Levy Melina Borcherding
Yaeko Okajima Yuki Minowa Ashley Eckstein Gabrielle Pietermann

reception

The 118-minute film premiered on July 5, 1991. It opened in Japanese cinemas on July 20, 1991, where it was a surprisingly great commercial success. Tears of Memory was the most successful Japanese film in 1991 , with grossing 1.87 billion yen . Film critics also largely praised the film. The Children's and Youth Film Center praised the “deliberate narrative rhythm”, “the small gestures and precise observation that shape the melancholy atmosphere of the film”, but also criticized Takahata for nostalgic glorifying the story, for example through the “idealistic message of happiness Country life ”.

Tears of Memory was not shown in cinemas outside of Asia, but the film was released on DVD on June 6, 2006 in Germany by Universum Anime . The synchronous role of Taeko took over Angela Wiederhut , who also spoke Haru in the German version of the Studio Ghibli film The Kingdom of Cats .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Tears of Remembrance - Only Yesterday . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 328 DVD).
  2. ^ German dubbing index: Tears of Memory - Only Yesterday. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ ONLY YESTERDAY - TEARS OF MEMORY . Top video news. Publisher: Children's and Youth Film Center on behalf of the BMFSFJ .
  4. ↑ Tears of Memory . Universum Film GmbH. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013. Retrieved July 23, 2016.