Summer Time Machine Blues
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Film description
During the summer break, members of a high school science fiction club discover a fully functioning time machine in their club room. Rather than embarking on journeys to distant historical eras, they are interested in just one thing: going back a few hours, to the moment before the air conditioner remote broke. Anyone who has survived a Japanese summer knows that this is a matter of life and death. However, their trivial mission soon spirals into a series of absurd and increasingly tangled adventures.
„Summer Time Machine Blues” is a cult sci-fi comedy that has enjoyed the status of a generation-defining film in Japan for two decades. Slapstick humour meets summer nostalgia and nerdy energy, as Katsuyuki Motohiro playfully toys with the conventions of low-budget genre cinema. Instead of dystopian or cyberpunk visions of the future, the director opts for the atmosphere of a sweltering summer day in the middle of nowhere. If you loved „Funky Forest”, „One Cut of the Dead” or „River”, this film is for you.
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Łukasz Mańkowski
Katsuyuki Motohiro
Katsuyuki Motohiro (born July 13, 1965 in Marugame) is a Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter. He rose to fame with the 1997 police drama series “Bayside Shakedown” and went on to direct numerous feature films and anime series, including the cult series “Psycho-Pass.” He mainly works on commercial projects, but his “Summer Time Machine Blues” turned out to be a generational film that gained a considerable cult following among Japanese audiences, who still remember the film with nostalgia even today.
1998 Odoru Daisōsasen: The Movie / Bayside Shakedown: The Movie
2000 Supēsu Toraberāzu / Space Travelers
2001 Satorare / Satorare
2003 Odoru Daisōsasen 2 / Bayside Shakedown 2
2005 Samā Taimu Mashin Burūsu / Summer Time Machine Blues
2008 Shōrin Gāru / Shaolin Girl
2010 Odoru Daisōsasen 3: Yatsura o Kaihō seyo! / Bayside Shakedown 3
2012 Saiko Pasu / Psycho-Pass (seria)
2012 Odoru Daisōsasen The Final: Arata naru Kibo / Bayside Shakedown The Final
2015 Saiko Pasu: Za Mūbī / Psycho-Pass: The Movie
2015 Maku ga Agaru / The Curtain Rises
2017 Ajin / Ajin: Demi-Human
2018 Donten ni Warau / Laughing Under the Clouds
2018 Furi Kuri: Progressive / FLCL Progressive
2018 Furi Kuri: Alternative / FLCL Alternative
2019 Human Lost: Ningen Shikkaku / Human Lost
