Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2010) Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (時をかける少女): When her scientist mother is injured in a car accident, exuberant teenager Akira hopes to wake her from her coma by time-traveling from 2010 to 1972 to seek help from a mysterious man, but her inadvertent landing in 1974 complicates her quest. (6.0)
Director: Masaaki Taniguchi
Writers: Yasutaka Tsutsui (based on the novel by), Tomoe Kanno (screenplay)
Stars: Riisa Naka, Akiyoshi Nakao, Munetaka Aoki
I watched the anime version of "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" earlier, but this movie takes a different direction. In this story, the girl who travels through time is actually the daughter and the heart wrenching romance is kind of skipped along the way (okay, replaced by a different one, but it isn't the same). While watching this movie, I didn't think that it had much to do with the anime version. I did like this one's attempt at looking at the story from the different angle. Regardless of the title, this really isn't a hard science fiction. When the viewer sets the expectations of it as a non-scifi, the story becomes interesting. My Rating: 6.5
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