Girl Who Leapt Through Time - film versions

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Ironically my wife and I were just discussing the '83 movie, which was popular in her youth. She said it starred the same actress from Sailor Suit and Machine Gun., Yakushima Hiroko. Aaron, do you recall if Yakushima was in the TV series rather than the film?

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Mark 
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From: Frako Loden <frako at well.com> 

> 
> 
> Thanks, Aaron! Taro Goto's catalogue blurb for the SF Asian American 
> Film Festival's catalogue mentioned "countless" film and TV versions, 
> so I knew there had to be more than two. 
> 
> Frako Loden 
> 
> 
> At 11:00 AM +0900 5/21/07, Aaron Gerow wrote: 
> >>I think there are two. A 1983 live action and the animated version 
> >>that was theatered last summer. 
> > 
> >There are actually two live action films: Kadokawa Haruki, who 
> >produced the 1983 version, ended up directing another version in 
> >1997 as one means of coming back into the industry after his 
> >conviction. Also, the animated version is set up as a "sequel" to 
> >the Tsutsui story, with the heroine of the novel/films becoming the 
> >aunt of the animated heroine. 
> > 
> >I should note that this has also been done on TV at least three 
> >times: one as a TV movie in 1985, another as a TV series in 1994, 
> >and finally in 2002 as part of a Morning Musume special. 
> > 
> >Aaron Gerow 
> >KineJapan owner 
> > 
> >Assistant Professor 
> >Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures 
> >Yale University 
> > 
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