TIME TRAVELLER: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME on UK DVD

High school student Akari Yoshiyama (Riisa Naka) travels back nearly 40 years in TIME TRAVELLER: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME, the live-action adaptation of the classic novel. Photo courtesy of The Associates. � 2010 Time Traveller Film Partners

Source: The Associates press release, Pictures Dept. Official Movie Site: tokikake.jp (Japan)

Cover of the UK DVD. Photo courtesy of The Associates. � 2010 Time Traveller Film Partners

TIME TRAVELLER: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (???????, Toki o Kakeru Shojo, 2010), the latest live-action movie incarnation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's frequently adapted 1969 sci-fi/fantasy novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, gives the tale a contemporary spin as Akari, the teenage daughter of the novel's protagonist, Kazuko Yoshiyama, travels back in time from the present in search of a mystery man from her mother's past. TIME TRAVELLER: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME is the debut feature of director Masaaki Taniguchi, a longtime assistant to some of Japan's most eminent directors; Kichitarou Negishi, Kazuyuki Izutsu, Yojirou Takita, Hideyuki Hirayama, and Tetsuo Shinohara. The film stars Riisa Naka (female star of Takashi Miike's ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY), who provided the voice for Makoto Konono, Kazuko's time-travelling niece, in Mamoru Hosoda's award winning 2006 animated adaptation of the story. TIME TRAVELLER: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (cert. 12) will be released on DVD (Region 2, PAL) by Manga Entertainment on the 2nd of May, 2011. Continued...

Source: http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2011/04/21/time-traveller-the-girl-who-leapt-through-time-on-uk-dvd/

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