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Summer Time Machine Blues

Samâ Taimu Mashin Burūsu
dir. Katsuyuki Motohiro
Japan 2005, 107’
subtitles: Polish and English

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Polish premiere
Theatrical Screenings
We 12 Nov, 20:30
Kinomuzeum
Kinomuzeum
St 15 Nov, 22:00
Kinomuzeum
Kinomuzeum
Online Availability
12 Nov, 10:00 – 30 Nov
Credits
Japan 2005
Duration: 107’
director: Katsuyuki Motohiro
screenplay: Makoto Ueda
cinematography: Kazunari Kawagoe
editing: Takuya Taguchi
music: Halfby & Strauss
cast: Eita Nagayama, Yoko Maki, Yoshiaki Yoza, Daijirô Kawaoka, Munenori Nagano, Chikara Honda, Kuranosuke Sasaki
producer: Katsuyuki Motohiro, Chikahiro Ando
production: Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Imagica Corp., Robot Communications, Toshiba Entertainment
language: Japanese
colouration: colour

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.

text:
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.

Filmography:

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

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