JFF: Rewrite

CLUB 18+127 min

High school student Miyuki falls for new transfer student Yasuhiko. Yasuhiko isn’t your typical teenager, however – he has actually time travelled from 300 years in the future. Miyuki and Yasuhiko spend a whirlwind summer ogether before Yasuhiko abruptly returns to the future. A heartbroken Miyuki is briefly visited by her future self, who encourages her to write a novel about her unusual romance. A decade later, Miyuki - now a successful author - prepares for the day when she will finally encounter her younger self. When things don’t play out as expected, she discovers that Yasuhiko’s summer ten years ago was a lot more eventful and compli cated than he ever let on...

Director Daigo Matsui ( Just Remembering , JFF 24) and writer Makoto Ueda ( Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes ) have crafted a wonderfully unpredictable time travel comedy. Based on a novel by Haruka Hôjô, Rewrite also serves as a lov ing tribute to the 1984 time loop classic The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and its late director Nobuhiko Obayashi ( Hausu ).

Japanese with English subtitles