Source: The Associates press release, Pictures Dept. Official Movie Site: tokikake.jp (Japan)
TIME TRAVELLER: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (???????, Toki o Kakeru Shojo, 2010), the latest live-action movie incarnation of Yasutaka Tsutsui`s frequently adapted 1967 sci-fi/fantasy novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, gives the tale a contemporary spin as Akari, the teenage daughter of the novel`s protagonist, Kazuko Yoshiyama, travels back in time from the present in search of a mystery man from her mother`s past. TIME TRAVELLER: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME is the debut feature of director Masaaki Taniguchi, a longtime assistant to some of Japan`s most eminent directors; Kichitarou Negishi, Kazuyuki Izutsu, Yojirou Takita, Hideyuki Hirayama, and Tetsuo Shinohara. The film stars Riisa Naka (female star of Takashi Miike`s ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY), who provided the voice for Makoto Konono, Kazuko`s time-travelling niece, in Mamoru Hosoda`s award winning 2006 animated adaptation of the story. In 2010, Akari Yoshiyama (Riisa Naka) is a high school student who has just passed the entrance examination to Shotoku University, where her mother Kazuko (Narumi Yasuda) works as a pharmaceutical researcher. But Akari`s hopes and plans for her new life as a college student are turned upside down when her mother is injured in a car accident. Now in a coma, Kazuko repeatedly mutters “I have to see Kazuo Fukamachi”... To satisfy her mother’s wishes, Akari uses Kazuko`s newly completed time-travel potion to leap back to 1972 in search of the mystery man from her mother`s past. But she misjudges the date and arrives two years late, in the year 1974. There, she enlists the help of reluctant student filmmaker Ryota (Akiyoshi Nakao), in a race against time to find a man that nobody remembers. TIME TRAVELLER: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (cert. 12) will be released on DVD (Region 2, PAL) by Manga Entertainment on the 2nd of May, 2011. Label: Manga Entertainment Release date: 2nd May 2011 Release type: DVD Certificate: 12 Running time: 112 minutes Pricing: £17.99 Genre: Asian cinema - Japan Director: Masaaki Taniguchi Stars: Riisa Naka, Narumi Yasuda, Akiyoshi Nakao, Masanobu Katsumura, Kanji Ishimaru, Munetaka Aoki, Anna Ishibashi, Shota Chiyo
