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Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2010)

Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time poster
Original title
時をかける少女
Directed by
Masaaki Taniguchi
Genre
science fiction film
Country
Japan
Runtime
2h 02m
Rated
12
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 68 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Akari Yoshiyama, the daughter of a woman who once traveled through time, discovers that she too has the ability to leap into the past. She uses this power to try to solve problems and help people around her, but each change brings unintended consequences.

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What happens

Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, originally released as Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (時をかける少女; lit. "The Girl Who Runs Through Time"), is a 2010 Japanese science fiction fantasy film directed by Masaaki Taniguchi and written by Tomoe Kanno. It is the fourth film based on the novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and is a sequel to the original 1983 film adaptation. The film stars Riisa Naka as the protagonist Akari Yoshiyama, daughter of the original story's protagonist Kazuko Yoshiyama. Naka previously voiced Akari's cousin, Makoto Konno, the protagonist of the 2006 anime adaptation, which followed a different story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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