Rejected from the future, she's stuck in 2008 with nothing but awkwardness and mysterious transfer student energy.
A girl has been sent back in time from 500 years in the future because she has been deemed unnecessary there. Naturally, she has trouble fitting in, until one day, she meets a mysterious transfer student...
Writing
Time-travel premise that actually interrogates emotional stakes
Acting
Rei Okamoto's restrained alienation is uncomfortably real
Cinematography
Digital grime of 2008 Japan as liminal purgatory
Director
Teiichi Hori
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Teiichi Hori made this for roughly the budget of a used Honda Civic, shooting guerrilla-style around actual Tokyo suburbs.
Released during Japan's 'lost decade' anxieties, the film resonated with young workers facing corporate 'restructuring' — being declared unnecessary hit different in 2008.
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