Retailer Amazon has begun listing a July 5th DVD/Blu-ray release date for Isao Takahata's Studio Ghibli anime feature Only Yesterday. Japanese and English audio are listed along with English and French subtitles.

A new English dub for the movie features Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) as Taeko Okajima, Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) as Toshio, Ashley Eckstein (Star Wars Rebels) as Yaeko and Alison Fernandez (Orange Is the New Black) as Young Taeko.









The 1991 Only Yesterday anime movie by Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata (Grave of Fireflies, Pom Poko, My Neighbors the Yamadas) is known for being unknown in North America, in that it's the only Studio Ghibli theatrical movie not released in the region. (Ghibli's TV movie Ocean Waves is missing too.) An earlier dub ran on Turner Classic Movies' 2006 Ghibli retrospective and a release was scheduled for DVD before Disney reshuffled their Ghibli DVD release plans.

The semi-autobiographical Omohide Poro Poro follows a 27-year-old woman who revisits her childhood as she breaks from her busy Tokyo-based life to travel to a rural harvest.

GKids brought it to American theaters earlier this year in time for its 25th anniversary.









via @WTK



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.