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Space-Time Traveler - Time Stranger

AnimationFantasy

Duration

1h 31m

Release

20 Dec 1986

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Overview

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.

Plot

Time Stranger is the story of a bunch of teenagers getting transported back in time through Japan's history, and getting mixed up with samurai shenanigans.

Cast

Keiko TodaHiromi MurataMitsuo Iwata

Ratings

Internet Movie Database: 6.2/10

Details

Director

Mori Masaki

Writers

Mori MasakiTaku MayumuraYoshio Takeuchi
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