Tuesday, December 05, 2023

Tokyo Girl jmovie review

 

Speaking of time travel movies, I was browsing Yahoo Auctions when I came across the very striking Kaho movie poster. Why have I not heard anything about this movie before and sought it out immediately at avistaz. Kaho plays a high school student who is not happy that her widowed mother plans to get remarried to literary professor.

Kaho storms out of the meeting with her potential father and an earthquake happens and she drops her mobile phone which falls down to 1912 and is found by a boy named Tokijiro. Tokyo Girl is basically a time travel movie about a girl from 2008 talking to a boy in 1912 who is a struggling writer who is a disciple of Natsume Souseki.

I would like to point out that if this movie happened in 2023, the mobile phone would last 2 days at most. The old clamshell otherwise known as garakei last for a long time on one charge. The scary thing is that 2008 was not that long ago and technology has advanced so much!

Tokyo Girl is a fun little low budget story about two people in the past and future trying to communicate using interesting ways. Unfortunately Tokyo Girl has the budget of a dorama special so no Kaho in Meiji fashion or any big sets in the Meiji era. As a fan of Sakura Taisen, I really wanted to see more of that era. Maybe I should hunt for a movie set in the Meiji era that is not Kenshin.

I rather enjoyed Tokyo Girl although it was not as colourful as the poster. It is cute and fast paced and I would say watch it if you are a Kaho fan or like a simple movie about communicating across time. Watchable.

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