The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983)

Original title

時をかける少女

Directed by

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Cast

Minamino Yoko, Nakagawa Katsuhiko, Honda Hirotaro, Ito Yasuomi, Tsuchida Sanae, Tsuyuhara Chigusa, Hamamura Jun, Yonezawa Yuka

Genre

science fiction film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

12

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A high school girl discovers she can travel through time. She uses her new ability to relive the same day over and over again.

whimsicalnostalgiclightheartedquirkybittersweetplayfulreflectivegentle

What happens

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Japanese: 時をかける少女, Hepburn: Toki o Kakeru Shōjo) is a 1983 Japanese science-fiction film directed and edited by Nobuhiko Obayashi, written for the screen by Wataru Kenmotsu, and starring idol Tomoyo Harada in her first film. It is based on the 1967 Japanese novel of the same name and was released by Toei in Japan on July 16, 1983. It has since been released internationally on DVD with English subtitles under various titles, including The Little Girl Who Conquered Time, Girl of Time, and The Girl Who Cut Time, among others. It was the first film adaptation of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, about a high-school girl who gains the ability to time-travel and repeatedly relives the same day in a time loop. The film was a major box office success in Japan, becoming the second highest-grossing Japanese film of 1983. It received a sequel in 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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