Toki o Kakeru Shôjo |
Japan • 1983 • 104m •
   • Directed by: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi. • Starring: Tomoyo Harada, Ryôichi Takayanagi, Toshinori Omi, Yukari Tsuda, Ittoku Kishibe, Toshie Negishi, Makoto Naitô, Wakaba Irie, Youko Yamashita, Hiroe Oka, Akiko Kitamura, Taizoh Masumoto, Yoichi Takabayashi. • Music by: Masataka Matsutouya.  A high-school girl acquires the ability to travel through time.
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Obayashi Nobuhiko's adaptation of Tsutsui Yasutaka's "The Girl Who Leapt through Time" is dated, but for fans of Obayashi's campy but fun "House", this film is a great Sunday afternoon flick that displays a lot of Obayashi's strengths with movement. Obayashi keeps things interesting with a lot of neat strobe and colorization tricks, as well as some incredibly outdated and laughably-bad 80's computer effects. Where Obayashi really shines though is in the shots that immerse you in Kazuko's world - wonderfully subtle pans inside school hallways, classrooms, climbing the steps in Kazuko's beautifully serene town.
Most of the acting is a bit stiff and juvenile, with the exception of a young Ittoku Kishibe as Kazuko's language teacher, but the film and story are enjoyable nonetheless. "The Girl Who Leapt through Time" was a widely successful pop blend of teenage melodrama with the supernatural in Japan, and Japanese movies and anime have never looked back.
Review by Kuma_no_geppu from the Internet Movie Database.
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