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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

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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.

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What this film says about your taste.

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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.