{"id":43,"date":"2007-05-06T00:17:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T05:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2007\/05\/06\/toki-wo-kakeru-shoujo\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T00:17:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T05:17:20","slug":"toki-wo-kakeru-shoujo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/toki-wo-kakeru-shoujo\/","title":{"rendered":"Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I need to watch it again to make sure that there aren’t any paradoxes left dangling and that the writers didn’t cheat at the end, but one thing is clear: it is every bit as good as it is said to be. I doubt that I’ll see a better movie this year. The story is interesting and the central characters are three-dimensional. The production may not be as glossy as a Studio Ghibli epic, but it’s more than adequate, and the script and the acting are first-rate. I will be astonished (and appalled) if TokiKake<\/b><\/i> isn’t quickly licensed, and I hope that whoever does bring it over makes an effort to market it to all audiences, not just anime fans.<\/p>\n

Wabi Sabi comments on some of the motifs here<\/a> (spoilers).<\/p>\n

Here’s a curiosity I noticed. I wonder if it was intentional.<\/p>\n

1815.jpg<\/center><\/p>\n

Now would someone please translate the book.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

It turns out that TokiKake<\/b><\/i> is not an adaptation of the novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui but is a “continuation” of it, set twenty years later. The protagonist of the novel appears in the movie as “Aunt Witch.”<\/p>\n

Here’s Yasutaka Tsutsui’s site<\/a>. It includes a profile that I hope is misleadingly pretentious and English translations<\/a> of some of his short stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I need to watch it again to make sure that there aren’t any paradoxes left dangling and that the writers didn’t cheat at the end, but one thing is clear: it is every bit as good as it is said to be. I doubt that I’ll see a better movie this year. The story is … Continue reading “Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[660],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-current-viewing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}