
Remarkably, Only Yesterday was only given the Disney dub treatment for its 2016 DVD re-release. There’s a reason I came late to the party for Only Yesterday, and in fact most Ghibli fans will have been in the same boat, if you prefer to watch animes dubbed rather than with subtitles. Having only recently caught up with Only Yesterday, Takahata’s 1991 effort, it turns out that Studio Ghibli had two complete geniuses as directors during their early years, not just one. So far every film I have written about here has been a Miyazaki film, and I skipped Takahata’s first effort as it was not the kind of film I enjoy.


For the majority of their output, Studio Ghibli has had two main writer/directors: Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.
