Yet one more film has joined up the already cramped 2010 line up. From the award winning animated film with the same name, a live action production is taking place and will be released in March next year.
This movie will be a sequal to the original novel, Toki o Kakeru Shojo, written by Yasutaka Tsutsui in 1976. This would mean that it would be the sequal to the first film released in 1983, which is actually based on the novel.
Riisa Naka, the actress who made her film debut as the lead voice of Mamoru Hosoda’s 2006 award-winning anime film version of the same novel, stars as a different character in the new film. In the 2010 film, she plays 18-year-old Akari Yoshiyama, the only daughter of the novel’s heroine Kazuko. After a car accident puts Kazuko in a coma, Akari leaps back to the year 1974 to find Kazuko’s first love. The film is slated to open in Japan next March.
The trailer can be found here. The movie is set to premiere in Japan in March of 2010.
An interesting note is that there were three other adaptations released one film, one television drama, and one animated film before today, all sharing the same name, the drama would actually be considered a remake of the original film, which would feature the then rookies Yuki Uchida and Namie Amuro.
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Looking forward to this ^^ I saw it a few years back and it was pretty awesome =)
Interesting, I really liked the animated film and is intrigued to see the live action movie.