The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 film)

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This article is about the 2006 animated film. For the original novel, see Toki o Kakeru Shōjo.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

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Kana 時をかける少女
Rōmaji Toki o Kakeru Shōjo
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda
Produced by Takashi Watanabe
Yuichiro Saito
Screenplay by Satoko Okudera
Based on Toki o Kakeru Shōjo by
Yasutaka Tsutsui
Starring Riisa Naka
Takuya Ishida
Mitsutaka Itakura
Sachie Hara
Mitsuki Tanimura
Music by Kiyoshi Yoshida
Cinematography Yoshihiro Tomita
Art Directed by Nizo Yamamoto
Editing by Shigeru Nishiyama
Studio Madhouse
Distributed by Kadokawa Herald Pictures
Release date(s) July 15, 2006 (2006-07-15)
Running time 98 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Box office ¥300,000,000
(US$3,000,000)

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女 Toki o Kakeru Shōjo?) is a 2006 Japanese-animated science fiction romance film directed by Mamoru Hosoda and written by Satoko Okudera. A loose sequel to the 1967 novel of the same name by Yasutaka Tsutsui, it shares the basic premise of a young girl who gains the power of time travel, but with different story and characters than the novel. The film was produced by Madhouse and distributed by Kadokawa Herald Pictures. Riisa Naka voices Makoto Konno, a teenager who inadvertently gains a mysterious power. She learns from her aunt Kazuko Yoshihara—protaganist to the original story—that she has the power to travel through time. Makoto begins using the time-leaps frivolously to fix problems.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was released on July 15, 2006 and received extremely positive reviews. The film won numerous awards, including the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. The English version was licensed and produced by Kadokawa Pictures USA along with Ocean Productions (dubbing) and released by Bandai Entertainment in 2008.

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[edit] Plot

Seventeen-year-old Makoto Konno (Riisa Naka/Emily Hirst) lives with her family in the Shitamachi area of Tokyo, Japan. Makoto lives with her younger sister, Miyuki (Yuki Sekido/Shannon Chan-Kent), and her aunt, Kazuko Yoshihara (Sachie Hara/Saffron Henderson), is an art restorer at the Tokyo National Museum. When Makoto discovers a message written on a blackboard at her high school, she unknowingly falls upon a mysterious, walnut-shaped object. On her way home, Makoto is ejected into a railroad crossing when she loses control of her bicycle and is struck by a train. However she is transported a few minutes back in time to before the accident. Makoto learns from Kazuko that she has the power to "time-leap", to literally leap through time. At first, Makoto uses her power extravagantly to avoid being late, to get perfect grades on tests, and even relive a single karaoke session for several hours. Makoto soon discovers that her actions can adversely affect others.

Makoto ends up using up more of her leaps to recklessly prevent undesirable situations from happening, including an awkward confession of love from her best friend Chiaki Mamiya (Takuya Ishida/Andrew Francis). Eventually, she discovers a numbered tattoo on her arm which counts down with each leap. She determines that the tattoo indicates that she can only leap through time a limited number of times. With only a few time leaps left, she attempts to make things right for everyone. After Makoto impulsively uses her final leap to prevent a phone call from Chiaki asking if she knows about time-leaping, she is too late to prevent her friend Kōsuke Tsuda (Mitsutaka Itakura/Alex Zahara) and his new girlfriend, Kaho Fujitani (Mitsuki Tanimura/Natalie Walters), from being struck by the train when he uses her faulty bike. But time freezes and Makoto discovers Chiaki nearby.

Chiaki confesses that he is from the future and leapt through time to see a painting being restored by Kazuko, as it has been destroyed in the future. While walking in the frozen city, Chiaki hints that his original era occurs after a worldwide catastrophe destroys mankind. He reveals that he has used his final leap to prevent Kōsuke's accident and has stopped time only to explain to Makoto what the consequences will be. Having revealed his origins and the source of the item that allowed Makoto to leap through time, and being unable to return to his time period, Chiaki must disappear. Makoto realizes too late that she loves him as well.

True to his words, Chiaki disappears when time begins again and Makoto is upset. As she tries to come to terms with losing him, she discovers that Chiaki's time-leap had inadvertently restored one time-leap to her: Chiaki had leapt back to the time before Makoto used her last leap. Makoto leaps back safely to the moment when she gained her powers, at which point Chiaki still has one remaining time-leap. She reveals everything that he told her in the future concerning who he is, the ability to leap through time, and his reasons for extending his stay in her time frame. Makoto promises to make sure the painting stays safe so Chiaki can see it in his time. As Chiaki leaves, he tells Makoto he will be waiting for her in the future to which Makoto responds that she will run towards him.

[edit] Release

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was released to a small number of theaters in Japan, taking in approximately 300 million yen (US$~3 million).[1] The film received limited advertising compared to other animation features from 2006 such as Gedo Senki, but word of mouth and glowing reviews[2] generated interest. At Theatre Shinjuku for days in a row, filmgoers filled the theater with some even standing to watch the film. Following this, distribution company Kadokawa Herald Pictures increased the number of theaters showing the film across Japan, and submitted the film for international festival consideration.

Bandai Entertainment released the film in North America on November 19, 2006 at the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema and on March 3, 2007 at the 2007 New York International Children's Film Festival. The movie received a limited release in the United States, being shown subtitled in Los Angeles in June, and in Seattle in September. Also a dubbed version was shown in New York City in July. Its Boston area showings in August were subtitled. The film has also premiered in the UK as part of the Leeds Young People's Film Festival on April 2, 2008. The film was made available on Cable VOD on December 1, 2010 throughout the United States on numerous major cable systems, such as Comcast, Time Warner, and Cox, among others, by VOD distributor Asian Media Rights, under the Asian Crush label.

[edit] Critical response

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time received generally positive reviews from film critics. It has a 87% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 15 reviews with an average rating of 6.7/10, and the consensus: "An imaginative and thoughtfully engaging anime film with a highly effective visual design. This coming-of-age comedy drama has mad inventiveness to spare."[3]

Justin Sevakis of Anime News Network praised the film for its "absolute magic." Sevakis also noted that the film is "more in common with the best shoujo manga than [author Yasutaka] Tsutsui's other work Paprika. He said that the that the voice acting has "the right amount of realism [for the film]" and gave an overall grade of "A-".[4] Ty Burr of The Boston Globe praised the film's visuals and pace. He also compared the film to the works of Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Yoshifumi Kondo.[5]

[edit] Accolades

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time won the Gertie Award for the best animated feature film at the thirty-ninth Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia.[6] It won the Animation Grand Award, given to the year's most entertaining animated film, at the prestigious sixty-first Annual Mainichi Film Awards. It was also awarded the first annual Animation of the Year prize at the thirtieth Japan Academy Prize.[7] It was nominated for, but did not win, the twenty-seventh Nihon SF Taisho Award.[8] It received the Grand Prize in the animation division at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival.[9] At the sixth annual Tokyo International Anime Fair, which opened on March 22, 2007, the film was recognized as "Animation of the Year" and won several awards.[10] It won the Special Distinction for Feature Film at France's thirty-first Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 16, 2007. It played to full-house theatres during a screening in August 2007 at the ninth Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila, Philippines. Tsutsui Yasutaka praised the film as being "a true second-generation" of his book at the Tokyo International Anime Fair on March 24, 2006.[11]

Emily Hirst won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Voice-Over Role for her role as Makoto in the English dub.[citation needed]

[edit] Soundtrack

All music by Kiyoshi Yoshida, except where noted. Piano played by Haruki Mino.

  1. "Natsuzora (Opening Theme)"
  2. "Sketch"
  3. "Aria (Goldberg Hensoukyoku Yori)" (Goldberg Variations by Bach)
  4. "Karakuri Tokei (Time Leap)"
  5. "Shoujo no Fuan"
  6. "Sketch (Long Version)"
  7. "Daylife"
  8. "Daiichi Hensoukyoku (Goldberg Hensoukyoku Yori)" (Variation 1 of Goldberg Variations by Bach)
  9. "Mirai no Kioku"
  10. "Seijaku"
  11. "Kawara nai Mono (Strings Version)" (Hanako Oku)
  12. "Natsuzora (Ending Theme)"
  13. "Time Leap (Long Version)"
  14. "Natsuzora (Long Version)"
  15. "Garnet (Yokokuhen Short Version)" (Hanako Oku)

The film's theme song is "Garnet" (ガーネット Gānetto?), and the insert song used in the film is "Kawaranai Mono" (変わらないもの lit. Unchanging Thing(s)?). Both songs were written, composed, and performed by singer-songwriter Hanako Oku. "Garnet" was arranged by Jun Satō and "Kawaranai Mono (Strings Version)" was arranged by Yoshida.

[edit] Manga

The manga starts with Makoto Konno discovering a young Kazuko Yoshiyama unconscious after having just said farewell to Kazuo Fukamachi.

The film was adapted into a manga by Ranmaru Kotone and was serialized in Shōnen Ace a few months before the film's theatrical release. It received an 2009 English-language release for the Australian region with licensing by Bandai Entertainment and distribution by Madman Entertainment. The manga largely follows the same story as the film with some slight differences. Notably, the manga opens differently, with Makoto Konno stumbling in on Kazuko Yoshiyama and Kazuo Fukamachi—the main characters of the original novel—parting ways, and ends with an epilogue of Yoshiyama waking up after returning to her proper time.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Tokikake Wins "Animation of the Year" at Japanese Academy Awards: Follow Up". Anime News Network. February 20, 2007. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-02-20/tokikake-wins-animation-of-the-year-at-japanese-academy-awards-follow-up. Retrieved May 5, 2007. 
  2. ^ "Gedo Senki Panned by Online Critics". Anime News Network. July 26, 2006. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2006-07-26/gedo-senki-panned-by-online-critics. Retrieved May 5, 2007. 
  3. ^ "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1202495-girl_who_leapt_through_time/. Retrieved January 20, 2012. 
  4. ^ Sevakis, Justin (March 5, 2007). "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time - Review". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/the-girl-who-leapt-through-time. Retrieved January 20, 2012. 
  5. ^ Burr, Ty (August 22, 2008). "Time stands still in enchanting 'Girl'". Boston Globe. The New York Times Company. http://articles.boston.com/2008-08-22/ae/29278798_1_isao-takahata-anime-studio-ghibli. Retrieved January 20, 2012. 
  6. ^ "Toki wo Kakeru Shōjo Wins at Catalonia". Anime News Network. October 23, 2006. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2006-10-23/toki-wo-kakeru-shoujo-wins-at-catalonia. Retrieved May 5, 2007. 
  7. ^ "Toki o Kakeru Syoujyo Wins Japan Academy Prize". Anime News Network. February 19, 2007. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-02-19/tokio-kakeru-syoujyo-wins-japan-academy-prize. Retrieved May 5, 2007. 
  8. ^ ""Toki wo Kakeru Shōjo" Nominated for the twenty-seventh Japan SF Grand Prize". November 23, 2006. http://comipress.com/news/2006/11/23/1057. Retrieved May 5, 2007. 
  9. ^ ""Toki wo Kakeru Shōjo" Japan Media Arts Plaza in 2006". Archived from the original on 2007-04-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20070426021355/http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/sakuhin/sakuhin/anime01.html. Retrieved May 5, 2007. 
  10. ^ "Results of sixth Annual Tokyo Anime Awards Announced". Anime News Network. March 19, 2007. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-03-19/results-anime-awards. Retrieved May 5, 2007. 
  11. ^ "Tsutsui Yasutaka talks about Toki o Kakeru Shōjo" (in Japanese). http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/games/articles/0606/20/news060.html. Retrieved May 5, 2007. 

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