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時をかける少女 Toki o kakeru shôjo

Director: ÔBAYASHI Nobuhiko
1983, 104 minutes, original language, 16 mm

The science fiction film by grandmaster Ôbayashi Nobuhiko (1938-2020) is based on the novel of the same name by Tsutsui Yasutaka, which was published in the mid-1960s. This first film adaptation of the story about a girl who can jump through time was a great success in Japanese cinemas and was followed by several more, including an anime by Hosoda Mamoru in 2006.

The student Yoshiyama Kazuko is on cleaning duty after class and has to clean the laboratory. A container breaks, releasing smoke that smells strangely of lavender. Kazuko faints and, after waking up, realizes that she now has the ability to travel through time. She begins to dream of events before they actually happen and falls in love with a school friend who himself comes from the future.

Film series
Films about being on the move - moving Japanese stories

As part of the theme month TABI - On the Way, we are showing films that tell moving stories of people who embark not only on an external but also an internal journey and are faced with unexpected challenges, either voluntarily or by force.

It begins with a science fiction story about a young girl who, after an incident in the school laboratory, gains the ability to travel through time and predict things(Toki o kakeru shôjo). This is followed by an episode of a long-running cult series about the likeable anti-hero Tora-san, who experiences the joys and sorrows of love first-hand on one of his journeys to the various regions of Japan(Otoko wa tsurai yo, Shibamata yori ai o komete).

However, leaving for a distant place can also mean a painful farewell, the wounds of which you carry with you for a lifetime, as a drama set in Okinawa vividly shows(Nabii no koi). The third part of the Kita-Kyûshû trilogy by Aoyama Shinji is dedicated to society's stranded and their long-suppressed emotions(Saddo vakeishon). The series is rounded off by a road movie about a middle-aged woman who has lived isolated from society for many years and is forced to embark on an upsetting journey following the death of her father(Roppyaku gojûhachi kiro, Yôko no tabi).

Price information:

Admission free