San Diego Asian Film Festival 2010

West Coast Premiere

Neither remake nor sequel, TIME TRAVELLER is the live action expansion of Mamoru Hosada’s The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006). The original novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui has been made into a number of films and drama series that follow the novel’s protagonist Kasuko Yoshiyama. In TIME TRAVELLER, the protagonist this time is Kasuko’s daughter Akari, a quirky high school student, who gets sent on a mission back in time by her mother to deliver an important message to a certain Kazuo Fukamachi in the year 1972. When Akari gets the year mixed up and stumbles in 1974, she recruits the help of a filmmaker she had literally fallen onto. Her new aspiring filmmaker friend Ryoto helps her try to find this Kazuo in various plans including throwing all their cash together to take out a personals ad. In return, Akari helps Ryoto finish a film he is making which is set...in the future, of course!

Fun for youth as well as adults, TIME TRAVELLER is the familiar back to the future storyline, but with plenty of clever twists and turns by the end. This new addition to the ever-popular Girl Who Leapt Through Time series is also a charming story of true friendships and promises that must be kept. – Mye Hoang

Co-presented by:
Anime Conji
Japan Society of San Diego and Tijuana