“The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” made into live-action movie

A while ago I wrote about a very beautiful anime movie I had seen, named “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time“. In the movie, Makoto Kanno, a young ordinary student mysteriously gains the power to go back in time and change things over and over if she wants. This ability becomes apparent as she avoids an otherwise fatal accident with a speeding train at a crossing.

This movie is now made into a live-action version, however details of the story-line are changed. The heroine suffers from an accident and falls into a coma, which transports her back into 1972, ~~where she finds her first true love~~ to find her mother’s first love.

The film stars Riisa Naka (the voice of Makoto in the 2006 animated film) as Akari, the 18-year-old daughter of the protagonist of the original novel, Kazuko Yoshiyama (played by Narumi Yasuda). When Kazuko is injured in a car accident and falls into a coma, Akari leaps back in time to the 70s to seek out her mother’s first love, Kazuo Fukamachi. Instead, she meets a college student named Ryota (Akiyoshi Nakao) who helps her with her search.

The full story, sources, and a 2-minute trailer can be found here.