*UPDATE* PRE-ORDER The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983) LE Slipcover Cult Epics - 4K UHD / Blu-ray
*UPDATE* PRE-ORDER The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983) LE Slipcover Cult Epics - 4K UHD / Blu-ray
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Schoolgirl Kazuko begins to experience time leaps backwards and forwards in time, disorienting her as she yearns to stay in the present.
Adapting sci-fi author Yasutaka Tsutsui's famous 1967 novel, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time cast Tomoyo Harada in her feature film debut, launching the Kadokawa pop idol into superstardom. After suffering a fainting spell in her school's laboratory, 16-year-old Kazuko Yoshiyama (Harada) begins to experience a strange phenomenon throughout her daily life--temporal leaps backward and forward in time--disorienting her as she relives moments time and time again, as days past return to present. Lost in a sea of time, Kazuko's desperate plead to exist in the present are answered, amidst the swell of FX wizardry, musical overtures and, most of all, the anchor of young love. Lyrical, romantic and longing, Obayashi's film is a genuine expression of the filmmaker's reflections on the poetic transcendence of love--cast across the stars for a young girl who lives in tomorrow.
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Bonus Materials
- 4K Transfer & Restoration + HDR
- Audio Commentary by Obayashi Scholar Alex Pratt
- A Movie: Obayashi’s Cinematic Life - Visual essay by Max Robinson
- Now and Then, Here and There: Onomichi Pt. 2 - Visual essay by Alex Pratt
- A Conversation with Nobuhiko Obayashi (2015) Japan Society NY
- Director Nobuhiko Obayashi Archival Interview
- The Tomoyo Harada Story
- Toki O Kakeru Shojo music video
- Theatrical Trailers
- New improved English subtitles
- New Slipcase art design by Sam Smith
- Reversible sleeve with original Japanese poster art
- First Pressing includes repro 24-page Japanese booklet
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