is the second

live-action Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live action with animation to create a live-action animated feature film. Live action is used to define film, video games or ...

film adaptation of novel of the same name. The film was released in Japan on November 8, 1997, directed by

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, with a screenplay by Ryōji Itō, Chiho Katsura and Haruki Kadokawa, starring beginner in the main role. The film is narrated by the previous 1983 film's lead-actress

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, and is set in 1965, when the novel was published for the first time. The film poster was used as the new cover for the 1997 edition of the novel.

Cast

* Nana Nakamoto as Kazuko Yoshiyama *

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as Kazuo Fukamachi *

Mitsuko Baisho is a Japanese actress whose most internationally known work has been for director Shohei Imamura, from 1979 up to the director's final film in 2010. Baisho has also appeared in films directed by Akira Kurosawa. She won awards for best actress at ...

Takaaki Enoki is a Japanese actor and artist from Isa District, Kagoshima. He is known for his role as private detective Mitsuhiko Asami in the ''Asami Mitsuhiko Series''. He attended Musashino Art University but left before graduating and joined the Shiki Th ...

* Mariko Hamatani ( :ja:浜谷真理子) * Yu Hayami *

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Yoshiko Kuga was a Japanese actress. She starred in '' The Woman in the Rumor'' (1954), ''Equinox Flower'' (1958), and '' An Inlet of Muddy Water'' (1953). She won a Mainichi Film Award in 1954, and a Blue Ribbon Award in 1956. She was the wife of actor ...

* Hironobu Nomura * Tsunehiko Watase * Itsumi Yamamura

Theme songs

"Yume no Naka de ~We are not alone, forever~" and "Toki no Canzone", a remake of the 1983 film's theme song, written and sung by

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References

External links

* 1997 films Japanese science fiction films 1990s films about time travel Films based on The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Films set in 1965 1990s Japanese films 1997 science fiction films {{1990s-Japan-film-stub