Summer Time Machine Blues

Summer Time Machine Blues (サマー タイム マシン ブルース)
Directed by	Katsuyuki Motohiro
Produced by	Chikahiro Ando Masaki Koide
Written by	Makoto Ueda
Starring	Eita Juri Ueno Yoshiaki Yoza Daijiro Kawaoka Munenori Nagano Yoko Maki Tsuyoshi Muro Riki Honda Kuranosuke Sasaki
Cinematography	Kazunari Kawagoe
Distributed by	Toshiba Entertainment
Release date(s)	July 11, 2005
Running time	107 min.
Language	Japanese

Summer Time Machine Blues (サマー タイム マシン ブルース, Samâ taimumashin burûsu) is a summer 2005 Japanese film directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro. The film stars Eita as a member of a university science-fiction club, and Juri Ueno and Yoko Maki as part of the neighboring photography club.

Plot

Summer Time Machine Blues is based around a group of friends in a science-fiction club who spend their days fooling around at the clubhouse. The boys play a game of baseball as their friend Yui Ito takes pictures of them nearby. After the game, the boys return to the clubhouse and head off to the bathhouse leaving the girls, Yui and Haruka to develop their pictures. While they bathe, Niimi gets angry because he thinks someone stole his Vidal Sassoon shampoo. On their way back, Takuma decides to sneak off to buy tickets at the theater for a sci-fi B movie. He hopes that he can ask Haruka out. But when he returns to the clubhouse, his friends act very strangely as to where he has been. They make him explain what happened, but through a series of chain events, Daigo accidentally spills Coke all over the air-conditioner remote control after being hit in the face. Everyone rushes to try to clean the remote off, but it's too late. The remote is broken and they cannot turn on the air-conditioner. This immediately becomes a problem as the day becomes hotter.

The remote apparently cannot be repaired as it is too old, so the boys give it to their club advisor to try to fix. They look for a fan in the meantime but only find broken ones. Back at the clubhouse, the boys discover a strange boy in the room who hurriedly escapes, leaving behind some sort of machine. They fool around discovering that it is a time machine. The boys decide to travel to the past to steal the remote control before it was broken and bring it back to the present. But as soon as they step back one day, they run into problems beyond their control.

External links

• Official Website
• CDJapan Product Information
• Film Review @ LoveHKFilm
• Film Review @ MidnightEye
• Summer Time Machine Blues
  (サマー タイム マシン ブルース) at the Internet Movie Database