Review of Movie

SUMMER TIME MACHINE BLUES

Rating – 5/5
Director - Katsuyuki Motohiro
Based on - A stage played by theatre troupe Europe Kikaku
Genre – Science comedy
Release – 2005 in Japan
Tagline – It’s waste of using a time machine
Casts - Eita, Ueno Juri, Yoza Yshiaki, Dijiro Kawaoka,
Munenori Nagano, Tsuyoshi Muro, Youko Maki

Which age do you wanna go if you got a time machine? Past? Future? And why?

This movie is my most favorite movie I ever seen!! I like the director Motohiro’s other work, it is the mega-popular cop drama Bayside Shakedown series. He had taken a breather from supervising them. Finally, he started to direct new movie in 2005, Summer Time Machine Blues, which his fans had waited for a long time. Of course, I was one of them. I guess you have seen some time machine movies, such as Back To the Future. This movie is also one of them. It is smaller scale but more interesting and exciting. It is only two days occurrence in hot summer. The characters repeatedly go and back and forth between past and present, just to get the remote control for the air conditioner in their clubroom. Here is the brief story:

That summer, there was the heat wave. Takuma Koumoto (Eita), Masaru Niimi (Yoshiaki Yoza), Shunsuke Koizumi (Daijiro Kawaoka), Atsushi Soga (Munenori Nagano), and Daigo Ishimatsu (Tsuyoshi Muro) spent the whole day keeping themselves cool with an air conditioner in their clubroom, although it was summer vacation. They belong to the same college sci-fi club. Incidentally, they know the least bit about science fiction. Even the meaning of science fiction, they don’t know. Next the sci-fi clubroom, there is the photo club with only two female members, the bespectacled Yui Ito (Youko Maki), and her shutterbug pal Haruka Shibata (Juri Ueno). They also visited there often to develop their pictures.

On the hottest day, they broke the remote control of their air conditioner. They tried to find some electric fans, but all of them had been broken. Then, for some reason, a mushroom-hair man appeared in their clubroom unexpectedly. He escaped somewhere quickly. A peculiar machine remained…it was a time machine! They decided to go back to yesterday and to get the remote control. However, there was a serious problem about using time machine….

Do you think what would happen in the future if you changed the past? Maybe the future would also change. You might be forced to live in another future or to die. Although, only four of them noticed this problem after other three students already had gone to yesterday. Four students chased them to prevent them from changing past.... The main highlight of this movie is spectacle of time. In the end of the movie, you will be surprised and know what time is. At once, I am sure their short adventure will remind you of your youth age. It is comedy, but makes us sentimental mood. Especially, five sci-fi club guys are so funny and cute because they always romp as if they are merry children. Contrary to them, two girls are so smart and cool to calm childish men down. Funny exchanges between them are other highlight. Of course it's better to watch this movie in summer or just before summer.