The Girl Who Leapt through Time #3

時をかける少女

Toki o Kakeru Shojo Literal: Time-soaring girl English release: Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt through Time

by 菅野友恵, directed by 谷口正晃

Release: 13 March 2010
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: Japanese

In this second sequel to Yasutaka Tsutsui’s 1965 novel 時をかける少女 em]The Girl Who Leapt through Time[/em, Naka Riisa plays the daughter, Akari, of a grown-up Kazuko (the original “girl who leapt through time”). Akari tries to leap back to the time of her mother’s first love, Kazuo, in hopes that he can bring her mom out of a coma induced by a car accident.

The actress Naka Riisa has another connection to time-leaping girls: In the first sequel to the original novel, , a 2006 anime adaptation, Riisa voiced the lead character, Makoto, who was Kazuko’s niece. So if I have this right: The original leaper is Kazuko; Kazuko’s niece Makoto is the leaper in the 2006 anime; and Kazuko’s daughter Akari is the leaper in the 2010 live-action movie. So in some sense, Riisa is her own cousin.

— Michael Main

So you believe me? You’re an SF geek, right?

DEBUT

[ex=bare]時をかける少女 | Time-soaring girl | Toki o kakeru shojo[/ex] (at movie theaters, Japan, 13 March 2010).

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Never Change the Past!

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From Akari’s mom’s lab, 3 March 2010 ⋙ to junior high science lab, 16 February 1974. Note: Akari travels on her 18th birthday.
From Ken Sogoru’s home, AD 2698 ⋙ to junior high science lab, 2 March 1974. Note: Ken arrives on the morning that the bus leaves.
From Shinjuku bus startion, 2 March 1974 ⋙ to Akari’s home, 3 March 2010. Note: Ken takes Akari back to her own time, possibly a bit before she left (because of the news broadcast on the TV when she wakes).