Year: 2010 Country: Japan Director: Masaaki Taniguchi Writer: Yasutaka Tsutsui (novel) Genre: Romance / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Drama Cast: Riisa Naka - Akari Yoshiyama; Akiyoshi Nakao - Ryota Mizoroki; Narumi Yasuda - Kazuko Yoshiyama; Masanobu Katsumura - Goro Asakura; Kanji Ishimaru - Kazuo Fukamachi; Munetaka Aoki - Gotetsu (Masamichi Hasegawa); Anna Ishibashi - Kazuko Yoshiyama; Shota Chiyo - Goro Asakura; Tokio Emoto - Satoru Motomiya; Mayu Kitaki - Natsuko Ichise; Yuya Matsushita - Tetsuo Toi Runtime: 121 min Language: Japanese Subtitles: English (SoftSubs of SkewedS Subs-Scans) Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 2010 Official Site IMDB
Synopsis / Plot: Quirky high school student Akari Yoshiyama (Riisa Naka) suddenly attains the power to leap through time...
Notes:
Shouwa is the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of the Shouwa Emperor, Hirohito, from December 25, 1926 to January 7, 1989. Shouwa 47 is 1972.
Heisei is the current era name in Japan. It started on January 8, 1989, the first day after the death of the reigning Emperor, Hirohito and where his son, Akihito, succeeded to the throne. Ryouta mistakenly read Heisei to Hirasei because of first kanji of Heisei can also be read like that.
Unlike in English calender where there are names in the months, Japanese calendar don't have names in the months but rather have numbers. That's why Akari easily got mixed up the year and month when she time leaped.
There are some colloquial terms used in the movie that during 1974, the terms used by Akari are not familiar to Ryouta. Keitai/Cellphone literally means handheld in the 70s; Otaku/Geek wasn't a common word and easily mistaken as home or house; Also the Gekikawa/Excessively cute/Twee dress that Akari was showing off; And the expression ukeru/received.
