PARADISE presents ONLY YESTERDAY

“What are you doing here, honey? You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets.”

“Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a 13-year-old girl.”

-The Virgin Suicides

THIS APRIL: Join us as we venture back to the school girl days- telling tails, biting nails, and all the magic and misery of growing up. The Paradise Presents: PUBERTY BLUES- nine films of girlhood woes that’ll make you wonder if you really want to live forever young.

I'M GOING ON A TRIP WITH ME. We end our series with anime master Isao Takahata's beloved classic- a masterpiece of time and tone, rich with humor and stirring with emotion. Join us 1991's ONLY YESTERDAY.

It’s 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her relatives in the countryside, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature stirrings of romance, the onset of puberty, and the frustrations of math and boys. At the station she is met by young farmer Toshio, and the encounters with him begin to reconnect her to forgotten longings. 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.

Presented in Japanese with English Subtitles

(Courtesy of GKIDS)

Monday April 22nd, 8 PM/7:30 PM Doors

General Admission $12.50 | Student/Senior (with valid ID) $10.00 + HST/eventbrite fees

Door tickets are available for purchase on the day of screening. Refunds can be requested up to 12 hours before the screening. All refunds must be requested and processed through eventbrite.

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