Questions tagged [the-girl-who-leapt-through-time]

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo) is a sci-fi romance film directed by Mamoru Hosoda. A teenage girl Makoto Konno gains an odd ability to leap back through time, and tries to fix small problems with it.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (or, Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo) is a 2006 sci-fi romance film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, adapted from a 1967 novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka. It tells the story of Makoto Konno, a girl who avoids dying in a train accident thanks to her ability to leap backward through time. After the initial charm of the ability wears off, Makoto begins to learn that time travel has some serious consequences.

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Why couldn't Chiaki go to the future to get more time leaps?

In the 2006 film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Hosoda Mamoru, the protagonist Makoto accidentally uses up all of the time-leaps her friend Chiaki, who is actually a time traveler from the future. He used his remaining time leap to prevent an…
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What is the significance of the painting in The Girl Who Leapt Through Time?

I've already kind of sorted out all the other mysteries of this movie but only this painting thing is killing me. What is that painting? What's the story behind it? Why does it actually exist in the first place? And most importantly, what is the…
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