The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
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The Little Girl Who Conquered Time (Toki wo Kakeru Shōjo (時をかける少女?)) is a Japanese novel written by Yasutaka Tsutsui telling the story of a girl named Kazuko Yoshiyama, who accidentally acquires a time-traveling ability.
The novel was serialized in Chu-3 Course and Kou-1 Course, which are Japanese magazines targeting junior high school and high school students, from November 1965 to May 1966. The novel has been adapted many times, notably in a 1972 television series, a 1983 film, and a 2006 animated movie.
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[edit] Plot Summary
Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third grade junior high school girl. While cleaning the school science room with her clasmates Kazuo Fukamachi and Gorō Asakura, she smells a lavender-like scent and faints. After three days, strange events transpire around Kazuko. Gorō's house catches fire due to an earthquake at night. At the exact moment of a car accident the next morning, Kazuko goes back in time to the previous day's morning.
She repeats the same day and tells the strange experience to Kazuo and Gorō. They don't believe her at first, but they finally believe her account after she accurately predicts both the earthquake and the ensuing fire. Fukushima-Sensei, their science teacher, explains that her ability is called "teleportation" and "time-leap", and that she must leap to four days back in time to reveal the facts.
Finally, Kazuko's determination enables her to leap back in time, and she awaits a mysterious stranger in the science room four days previous to her time-leap. The stranger she meets there is Kazuo Fukamachi. Kazuo tells her that his real name is "Ken Sogoru", and that he is a time-traveler from AD 2660. He mistakenly arrived at this time due to the unintended effects of a medicine meant to develop human time-leaping ability. The real time that Kazuo actually spent in this age was about a month, and memories about Kazuo were fabrications imprinted by him. However, Kazuo fall in love with Kazuko in the month. Before he returns to the future, Kazuo promises Kazuko that they will meet again someday.
To keep the secret of the time-leap, memories about Kazuo are erased from Kazuko and other people. However, Kazuko has the faint memory of somebody promising to meet her again every time she smells a lavender flower.
[edit] 1983 film
| The Little Girl Who Conquered Time 時をかける少女 |
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| Directed by | Nobuhiko Ōbayashi |
| Produced by | Yoshihiko Yamada Kyōko Ōbayashi |
| Written by | Novel: Yasutaka Tsutsui Screenplay: Wataru Kenmotsu |
| Starring | Tomoyo Harada Ryōichi Takayanagi Toshinori Omi |
| Distributed by | Toei Company |
| Release date(s) | July 16, 1983 |
| Running time | 104 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
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[edit] 2006 animated movie
| The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Official Translation) 時をかける少女 |
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| Directed by | Mamoru Hosoda |
| Produced by | Takashi Watanabe Yūichirō Saitō |
| Written by | Novel: Yasutaka Tsutsui Screenplay: Satoko Okudera |
| Starring | Rīsa Naka Takuya Ishida Mitsutaka Itakura |
| Distributed by | Kadokawa Herald Pictures, Inc. |
| Release date(s) | July 15, 2006 |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
The 2006 animated movie is set after 20 years of the original novel. Its protagonist is Kazuko Yoshiyama's niece, Makoto Konno.
The characters in the film were designed by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.
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