My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016) poster
2016 · romance · drama · time-loop

My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday

Directed by Takahiro Miki1h 51m2016
ElsewhereIMDb7.46k
  • warm
  • measured
  • gentle
  • tender
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Warm, measured, gentle romance / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Takatoshi Minamiyama majors in art at an university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju and falls in love with her at first sight. Gathering up all his courage, he speaks to her. They begin to date and enjoy happy days together, but Emi reveals her secret to him.

Our read · My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016) reads as a warm, measured, inventive romance · drama · time-loop entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a gentle Japanese time romance about cherishing fleeting moments.

ends bittersweetit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if time-loop love stories with inevitable loss feel too melancholic.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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