Miho, a high school student, refuses to approve of her widowed mother’s potential husband when they meet each other at a restaurant. As she flounces out of the restaurant, she drops her cell phone. At the moment there is an earthquake and she drops her cell phone down a staircase. The phone is found by Tokijiro, a boy that lives in 1912.
Cinematography
Split-screen magic making two eras feel contiguous
Writing
Economic dialogue spanning 96 years of longing
Production
Meiji-period Tokyo recreated with obsessive detail
Director
Kazuya Konaka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's cell phone is a 2007 SoftBank model now discontinued, making it already a period piece itself.
Kazuya Konaka directed Ultraman entries; this represents his rare departure into intimate romance using the same speculative logic.
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