The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Region B) ernst lubitsch "Forget a swan song: Nobuhiko

"Forget a swan song: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s final film is a shriek

of this controversial film from director Barbet Schroeder (Barfly

With supernatural skill

Hammer (Hayes)

these two highly unusual horror films are essential viewing for fans of Cult Cinema

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Region B) ernst lubitsch "Forget a swan song: NobuhikoNobuhiko Obayashi's adaptation of the popular Yasutaka Tsutsui novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Toki o Kakeru Shjo) was another sci fi inflected idol film, set this time in Obayashi's hometown of Onomichi. Kazuko Yoshiyama (Tomoyo Harada) is a high school student who, one day, is tasked with cleaning the chemistry lab and faints after one of the beakers containing a strange liquid falls to the ground and breaks. When her classmates, Kazuo