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Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Science Fiction · Drama · Fantasy · 2010

Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fulfill her mother's wish.

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Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

2010 Science Fiction · Drama · Fantasy 2h 2m

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6.3 / 10

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Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fulfill her mother's wish.

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Directed by

Masaaki Taniguchi

Written by

Tomoe Kanno

Riisa Naka

Riisa Naka

Akari Yoshiyama

Akiyoshi Nakao

Akiyoshi Nakao

Ryota Mizoroki

Narumi Yasuda

Narumi Yasuda

Kazuko Yoshiyama

Munetaka Aoki

Munetaka Aoki

Gotetsu (Masamichi Hasegawa)

Anna Ishibashi

Anna Ishibashi

Young Kazuko Yoshiyama

Shota Chiyo

Shota Chiyo

Young Goro Asakura

Tokio Emoto

Tokio Emoto

Satoru Motomiya

Court is in session

Put Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.