Urusei Yatsura: Only You

"Love, eleven years in the making... not that he remembers!"

1983 1h 41m JA

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6.2

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★6.2TMDB · 45

AnimationRomanceScience FictionComedy

Synopsis

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Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle's shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle's culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in order to marry Ataru — by which time not only had he forgotten the events of his childhood, but he was also going out with Lum. The rest of the plot focuses on Lum's attempts to prevent the marriage.

“Love, eleven years in the making... not that he remembers!”

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Cast

Toshio Furukawa
Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
Fumi Hirano
Lum (voice)
Saeko Shimazu
miyake shinobu
Akira Kamiya
mendo syutaro
Kazuko Sugiyama
Ten
Ichiro Nagai
Sakuran-bo
Machiko Washio
Sakura
Shigeru Chiba
Megane

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writers: Tomoko Konparu, Rumiko Takahashi, Mamoru Oshii
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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ERA

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43 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 7

CINEMA

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Part of the "Urusei Yatsura Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Mamoru Oshii, shot by Nobuo Koyama. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 7

CAST

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Toshio Furukawa and Fumi Hirano and Saeko Shimazu carry the top of the cast.

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5 / 7

ERA

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Marketing tagline: "Love, eleven years in the making... not that he remembers!".

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6 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0086520 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 45 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Mamoru Oshii directs. Nobuo Koyama behind the camera. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

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143 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Part of the "Urusei Yatsura Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by Mamoru Oshii, shot by Nobuo Koyama. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Toshio Furukawa and Fumi Hirano and Saeko Shimazu carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: "Love, eleven years in the making... not that he remembers!".
6IMDB entry: tt0086520 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 45 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.