4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 6, 2021

In the opening designs of Only Yesterday, the New York Stock Exchange is encapsulated by its usual hubbub only to hit the skids of pandemonium when the market crashes. We’re talking about the Big Crash of 1929. It plays as the backdrop to our story, very much functioning as current...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on July 28, 2018

Only Yesterday’s opening images resonate with me because of their sheer familiarity. The reflections of urban life in a skyscraper. Office buildings with desks, computers, copy machines. All those necessities of the modern working world.  This is the personification of the status quo that man   read more

Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on January 12, 2018

(1991) Written and directed by Isao Takahata; Based on the manga by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuuko Tone; Starring: Miki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yoko Honna and Mayumi Izuka; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: **** “To be a butterfly, a caterpillar has to become a chrysalis first,   read more