[ English name ]: Only Yesterday

[ original]: Okamoto Ying? Xizi Daogen

[ production]: Tokujian Bookstore/Japanese TV Broadcasting Network Blog Hall

[ performance]: script. Supervision/Gao Tianxun

[ production, production]: Jun Miyazaki

[ music]: Katsu Hoshi

[ film classification]: plot/animation

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On the way to the countryside for a holiday, Miao Zi, an office worker in Tokyo, remembered the past events in the fifth grade of elementary school again and again: going to the hot spring in Rehai, eating pineapple for the first time, failing the math exam seriously, being scolded by his father, being admired by the boys in the temporary class, having her first period ... The night train rumbled along, and the dark carriage was empty.

Ten-year-old Miao Zi's childish face peeped out from behind the veil and grinned.

why? She asked herself.

that may be a turning point of transformation, and now I am also meeting another time when I need to change, she thought.

Miao Zi is 27 years old, and her work, life, feelings and everything are pressing her.

Youth near the tip is like a rose in late summer, and it has gradually faded from fatigue.

2

"Which do you prefer, sunny, cloudy or rainy?"

When I was in primary school, I always wore my brother's leftover sportswear, croissants, and my face was blue and yellow. I didn't have a cartoon pencil box with Snow White on it, a beautiful pink headdress, or the admiration of boys.

When a boy who plays baseball very well in Lin Ban stopped in Miao Zi's alley and asked such a question with his face flushed, I smiled slightly with the adult Miao Zi.

"Which do you prefer, sunny, cloudy or rainy?"

"cloudy ..."

"me too!"

Simple as a meaningless conversation, it can make two children fly into the sky with joy. Is it love?

do you need to prove it?

white clouds are winding lightly.

the sky is so blue.

3

"It takes 12 baskets of safflower seeds to get one gram of red ..."

Picking safflower is what Miao Zi calls a holiday.

The golden flowers on the slope are captured one by one in the early morning of sunrise, mashed and dried to make rouge. Red is a beautiful color for girls.

Miao Zi stood in the field, wearing a flowered hat and smiling like a willing peasant woman. It was beautiful.

No matter how you look at it, Miaozi, an adult, is just an ordinary young woman with an ordinary appearance, an ordinary position, a kind heart and a fear of change. Like every one of us, we often feel powerless in the face of a vast life.

The whole film has smooth and comfortable color swatches, fields, clear streams, large tracts of deep and shallow green mountains, and brush strokes.

very much.

4

"2/3 apples, how can I divide them with a quarter?"

Miao Zi told Min Xiong about the exam that he couldn't bear to gamble when he was a beginner in fractional division, with 25 points. For such abstract arithmetic, she still has persistent confusion until now-how to divide 2/3 apples with 1/4?

It is said that those who can divide fractions smoothly will have a smooth road in the future. Miao Zi went on to say that Yuriko, a classmate, always got average grades, but she always got 1 points in the exam of fractional division. Now she has successfully married and is a happy mother of two children.

but I have accomplished nothing.

I have accomplished nothing, and I am alone.

Although, my math scores have always been excellent, and in the word-of-mouth of all teachers and classmates, I can be regarded as a clever boy.

5

"Mr. Crow, please go ..."

On a Wednesday in the third grade, it was supposed to be a rest afternoon, and the music teacher quietly told me to come to school for rehearsal-dancing!

This is usually an honor for cute girls with pink headdresses and rosy faces, which deserves great pride. But it was a great shame for the children at that time to show great enthusiasm for dancing and dressing up.

when the young pioneers informed me that the squadron would hold a regular meeting in the afternoon, I was deceived.

inexplicable shame made me finally choose a meeting instead of rehearsing. A girl who seemed unremarkable at that time took my place-a snowman with a beautiful hat and bungee jumping. Later, she repeatedly performed on behalf of the school, becoming more and more beautiful and fashionable. By the time she was in her senior year, she was already the backbone of the school's literature and art. She was tall and tall, and every time she passed the admiring eyes of boys, her head was always proud and her scenery was extremely beautiful.

I'm still grey-headed and pale.

I wonder if most people have similar regrets in their childhood.

Miao Zi talked about the role of the drama troupe that she missed at that time, and I saw infinite nostalgia in her eyes.

If there is another beginning, will I be another person now?

6

Is every child as headstrong as Miao Zi Jr., picky about food, poor at communication, holding a forbearing desire and refusing to make any noise?

Is every adult as afraid of aging as I am, complaining about life, subconsciously evading commitment and shirking responsibility?

I remember when I was very young, my greatest wish was to become another person, or a rabbit, a cat, anything, as long as I could escape from the real world.

At that time, my mind was as simple as a blank sheet of paper, and my worst evil thoughts were nothing more than praying for a big earthquake on the eve of the announcement of the final exam results, far from the vicious thoughts that set the whole earth on fire when I was a little unhappy now, like a blank sheet of paper.

In fact, it is both an escape from life, and no one grows much better than others.

At the end of the film, Miao Zi returns to the village on her way back to Tokyo, giving up her step-by-step life in a big city and becoming the wife of a farmer (Min Xiong). When I was a child, I was jubilant with my classmates in the carriage, urging her to jump off the train quickly.

At this turning point, she used a fifth-grade self to solve her headache as an adult.

The picture is beautiful, and the children in the car are full of joy, dazzling the sun and color, and the time overlaps.

that's her own voice.

It can be said to be an excellent film, or it can be said to be plain.

There is no deep discussion of the so-called human nature, no big right and wrong, and even no discussion of gains and losses. It is a warm sketch.

Miao Zi, as a child and an adult, stood on both sides of the river of time and marched bravely together.

7

I am who I am, and I can't be another person.