In the new Calendar Year of 392, in Neo-Tokyo, a young man, Agino Jiro, steals a time synchronization system and tries to escape to the past. The authorities give chase and damage his ship in the pursuit, forcing him to land in modern day Tokyo, Determined, he breaks into a van and attaches the device, recklessly kidnapping Nobucho, Shinichi, Teko and their teacher, Hokubei. Their initial resistance force lands them in Tokyo on March 9th 1945, during the US bombing campaign. Escaping again to the past the group eventually arrives at the Warring States period. There the future and the past collide as factions from Jiro's era seek to alter their past at a pivotal moment at Honnoji.
Direction
Mori Masaki balances Saturday morning chaos with genuine wartime horror.
Production
That 1945 Tokyo firebombing sequence is haunting hand-drawn devastation.
Director
Mori Masaki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This adapts Shinji Kajio's novel and belongs to a weird 80s Japanese trend of using time travel to force modern audiences to confront WWII trauma.
Mitsuo Iwata (Shinichi) would later voice Kaneda in Akira—same year, completely opposite energy.
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