2010 · sci-fi · drama · fantasy
Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Directed by Masaaki Taniguchi2h 2m2010
Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fulfill her mother's wish.
Our read: Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2010) reads as a warm, steady, inventive sci-fi · drama · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
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- tender
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