The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Based On the book by Yasutaka Tsutsui

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Japanese: 時をかける少女, Hepburn: Toki o Kakeru Shōjo) is a 1983 Japanese science-fiction film directed and edited by Nobuhiko Obayashi, written for the screen by Wataru Kenmotsu, and starring idol Tomoyo Harada in her first film. It is based on the 1967 Japanese novel of the same name and was released by Toei in Japan on July 16, 1983. It has since been released internationally on DVD with English subtitles under various titles, including The Little Girl Who Conquered Time, Girl of Time, and The Girl Who Cut Time, among others. It was the first film adaptation of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, about a high-school girl who gains the ability to time-travel and repeatedly relives the same day in a time loop.

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Release date:

1983

Director:

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Cast:

Tomoyo Harada, Ittoku Kishibe, Takako Irie, Toshie Negishi, Ken Uehara

Genre:

Science Fiction

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Year page:

1983 in adaptations