The Little Girl Who Conquered Time

Launching Kadokawa idol Tomoyo Harada into superstardom, this timeslip drama is based on the famous science fiction novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui and directed by the creative whirlwind Nobuhiko Obayashi (House). As Harada’s schoolgirl struggles to figure out why she uncontrollably jumps forward and backward in time, Obayashi’s unique and offbeat sensibility crafts a film that captured the hearts of an entire generation of moviegoers in Japan. It also offers a meditation on the new sense of time that a Kadokawa film offered—a vision of Japan that is simultaneously past, present and future. Remade several times since, the most well-known version in the U.S. is the 2006 anime version by Mamoru Hosoda. New 4k restoration!

1983, 104 min., DCP, color, in Japanese with live English subtitles. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. With Tomoyo Harada, Ryoichi Takayanagi, Toshinori Omi.

Part of POP! Goes Cinema: Kadokawa Film & 1980s Japan.

Tickets: $13/$10 seniors & students/$9 Japan Society members

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The Little Girl Who Conquered Time © 1983 Kadokawa Corp.

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