THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME 4K & BLU-RAY Release Feb 24

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, Nobuhiko 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.

Special Features: 

4K UHD

. 4K Transfer & Restoration + HDR

. Audio Commentary by

   Obayashi Scholar Alex Pratt

. Trailer

. New improved English subtitles

BLU-RAY

. 4K Transfer & Restoration

. Audio Commentary

   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

. Reversible sleeve with

   original Japanese poster art

. Dual-layered Disc

LIMITED EDITION COLLECTIBLE

. New Reversible Slipcase art

    by Sam Smith (Edition of 500)

. Japanese theatrical

    poster Postcard (Edition of 500)

. First pressing includes

    repro Japanese booklet (24-page pamphlet)

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