Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- countryside
- country life
- marriage
- folk music
- flashback
- school
- based on manga
- anime
- reflective
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Miki Imai
Taeko Okajima (voice)
Yoko Honna
Taeko Okajima as a 5-Year-Old (voice)
Toshiro Yanagiba
Toshio (voice)
Yorie Yamashita
Nanako Okajima (voice)
- Yuki Minowa — Yaeko Okajima (voice)
- Masahiro Ito — Taeko's Father (voice)
- Michie Terada — Taeko's Mother (voice)
- Chie Kitagawa — Taeko's Grandmother (voice)
- Mayumi Izuka — Tsuneko Tani (voice)
- Yuuki Masuda — Hirota (voice)
- Ichiro Nagai — Torahige (voice)
- Yoshimasa Kondo — Homeroom Teacher (voice)
- Issey Takahashi — Classmate (voice)
- Directed
- Isao Takahata
- Written
- Isao Takahata
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 1,289 ratings
- Studio
- Studio Ghibli, Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Hakuhodo
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
