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Linking Love (2017)

Linking Love poster
Original title
リンキング・ラブ
Directed by
Shūsuke Kaneko
Genre
teen film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 56m
Rating
2.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A college student from 2017 time-travels back to 1991, right after Japan's bubble economy burst. She meets her parents when they were young and facing a divorce in the present, so she tries to make them fall in love again by forming an idol group with her mother and friends for a school festival, using AKB48 songs.

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What happens

『リンキング・ラブ』は、2017年に公開された日本映画。金子修介監督作品。主演はAKB48の田野優花。原作は萩島宏のネット小説『Linking Love』。 2017年の現代からバブル経済崩壊直後の1991年にタイムスリップした女子大生が、現在は離婚危機にある両親の若き日に出会い、2人の恋を成就させるためにAKB48の楽曲を持ち込んで、母親たちと共に学園祭でアイドルグループ「ASG16」を結成するSF青春コメディ。 原作小説は電子書籍化されている他、きたがわ翔によってコミック化もされている。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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