{"id":13134,"date":"2019-09-15T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13134"},"modified":"2019-09-13T22:52:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T02:52:58","slug":"the-little-girl-who-conquered-time-1983-nobuhiko-obayashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13134","title":{"rendered":"The Little Girl Who Conquered Time (1983 Nobuhiko Obayashi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kazuko (Tomoyo Harada, later narrator of the 1997 version) has known flower-obsessed Kazuo (Ry\u00f4ichi Takayanagi of a couple other Obayashi films) since childhood.  They&#8217;ve always been close, and once drank each other&#8217;s blood after a broken mirror incident.  So she confides in him after passing out in a science lab and waking up with the barely-controlled ability to jump back in time, saving people from tragedies she&#8217;s seen occur from falling roofs and zooming bikes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/conquertime1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/conquertime2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>But it turns out these two met just recently, and Kazuo is a time traveler from the year 2660, collecting plants from the past for scientific research since the future world is barren, and he has psychically manipulated people into believing they&#8217;re friends with him, stealing Kazuko&#8217;s memories of her childhood friend Goro (Toshinori Omi, star of gender-swap comedy <em>I Are You, You Am Me<\/em>).  The movie plays all this straight, just 1980&#8217;s teen drama to the point that even 1980&#8217;s-teen-drama-loving Katy, who loves <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11315\">the animated version<\/a>, got bored and wandered off, but there&#8217;s some fun crazy stop-motion towards the end as she hurtles through time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/conquertime3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/conquertime4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/conquertime5.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazuko (Tomoyo Harada, later narrator of the 1997 version) has known flower-obsessed Kazuo (Ry\u00f4ichi Takayanagi of a couple other Obayashi films) since childhood. They&#8217;ve always been close, and once drank each other&#8217;s blood after a broken mirror incident. So she confides in him after passing out in a science lab and waking up with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,2560,36,2559,111],"class_list":["post-13134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-false-memory","tag-japan","tag-nobuhiko-obayashi","tag-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13154,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13134\/revisions\/13154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}