Back to trending
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Science Fiction · Romance · 1983

Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has the power to travel through time.

Movie details

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

1983 Science Fiction · Romance 1h 44m

Critical arithmetic

One number, for now.

TMDB

6.8 / 10

Community rating

Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has the power to travel through time.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over The Girl Who Leapt Through Time?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

TMDB supplies the candidates. CriticWise reorders them by craft, strangeness, prestige, emotion, and pace.

The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel

The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel

Animation · 2013

A side story of the original Kara no Kyōkai - the Garden of sinners movie series divided into 2 parts. In the first part, Shizune Seo, who finds her life too predictable due to her precognition, and Mitsuru‎ Kamekura, who uses his precognition to be a professional bomber, meet Mikiya and Shiki, respectively, and their futures begin to change. In the second part, 10 years after the original series, Shiki and Mikiya's daughter, Mana Ryōgi, spends a day with Mitsuru.

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

Fantasy · 2021

Two teenagers trapped in an endless time loop set out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect.

Paprika

Paprika

Animation · 2006

Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stolen, she must stop rogue elements from merging the dream and waking worlds.

Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space

Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space

Animation · 1982

Amuro Ray and the rest of the White Base crew, now denominated the 13th Autonomous Corps, return to outer space to support the rest of the Earth Federation forces for the decisive battle against the Principality of Zeon's forces.

Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal

Animation · 1981

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

Gray Matter

Gray Matter

Sci-fi · 2023

All her life, Aurora has been taught by her mother that the superhuman abilities they possess, the abilities that make them unique, also make them dangerous. Now, on one fateful and deadly night, Aurora will find out if her mother was telling the truth and just what consequences the use of her powers might have.​

The Irregular at Magic High School: The Girl Who Summons the Stars

The Irregular at Magic High School: The Girl Who Summons the Stars

Sci-fi · 2017

In the story, the seasons have changed and it will soon be the second spring. Tatsuya and Miyuki have finished their first year at First Magic High School and are on their spring break. The two go to their villa on the Ogasawara Island archipelago. After only a small moment of peace a lone young woman named Kokoa appears before them. She has abandoned the Naval base and she tells Tatsuya her one wish.

Shuffle

Shuffle

Thriller · 2012

Lovell Milo is a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life, never knowing where or when he’s going to be once he falls asleep. He’s terrified and wants it to stop - until he notices a pattern in his experience, and works to uncover why this is happening to him - and what or who is behind it.

Caddo Lake

Caddo Lake

Mystery · 2024

When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.

Returner

Returner

Action · 2002

A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.

Where it lives

Watch in your region.

Cinema release signals and current streaming, rental, and purchase options for your region.

Streaming availability data supplied by JustWatch.

Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Written by

Wataru Kenmotsu

Tomoyo Harada

Tomoyo Harada

Kazuko Yoshiyama

Ryōichi Takayanagi

Ryōichi Takayanagi

Kazuo Fukamachi

Toshinori Omi

Toshinori Omi

Gorō Horikawa

Toshie Negishi

Toshie Negishi

Naoko Tachibana

Ittoku Kishibe

Ittoku Kishibe

Toshio Fukushima

Wakaba Irie

Wakaba Irie

Noriko

Akiko Kitamura

Akiko Kitamura

Sadako Horikawa

Court is in session

Put 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.