The films of Nobuhiko Obayashi are a particularly satisfying and surprising niche in Japanese cinema. His filmography is bookended with dazzling works that combine the exuberance of adolescence with discoveries of historic suffering — beginning with House in 1977, and concluding with Hanagatami in 2017 and Labyrinth of Cinema, which released months after the director’s demise in 2020.

During the 1980s, Obayashi directed several adaptations of sci-fi books and travelogues for entertainment conglomerate Kadokawa. After acquiring four of these films last year, boutique Blu-ray label Cult Epics have now released The Girl Who Leapt Through Time on 4K, giving audiences the chance to discover an underrated gem from a director who made fantastical teen films like no-one else, which predated Mamoru Hosoda’s more widely seen 2006 anime version.

Read our full review of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time here.

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