What are you doing here?
Ah.
What is your home like?
Hm? My home?
Yeah.
I have my parents and a sister. We're a family of four.
My old man runs a printing shop.
I see.
Then, has he said that you should succeed the shop?
Yeah.
Well...
The truth is he really wants me to succeed the shop.
I see.
Then he's supporting you.
He's a good father.
Yeah.
What about your home?
Mine?
Yeah.
As for me...
What's wrong?
Hm?
Ah, nothing.
Well, you see.
I don't have any memories of my father.
When I was small,
it was just my Mom and I from the start.
Besides...
Mom has always been by my side.
And it was just natural that I had no father.
Even though there were times that I felt sad about it.
I wonder how it would be like if I had a Dad.
I imagined it a lot.
Really thought about it.
Ah...
Sorry about that...
I just blurted out dull stuff like that.
Ah...
Can I have this?
Sure.
40,000.
So it's 1200 yen.
Things I can do.
Say.
Hm?
This can catch attention, right?
It will even be left for the future.
Eh?
You see, what if...
That Fukamachi guy is also someone from the future.
What if he doesn't really exist in this era.
Aaah. I see!
But, nah. That's just impossible.
Like you have the right to say that.
[Yomiuri Newspaper Company]
Can't you please do something with 40,000 yen?
As I already told you,
A first grade 20 character print costs 50,000.
I don't have a say on that.
Please do something!
We really need it.
If you don't, there will be a big problem in her future!
Eh?
Ah... that's right!
My future.
My future?
There's no mistake there, right?
We beg of you!
We beg you!
I understand. Let's do it with only 40,000.
This is a special case for now.
- Thank you very much! - Thank you very much!
It's okay. It's okay. Right?
This looks good.
Here you go.
Eh?
Okay.
Okay. Go and mix it.
Eh?
I'll eat this, then.
Go ahead.
Yummy.
Ramen! Ramen!
Next is the ramen.
Tomi! Tomi! Are you alright?
I'm really, really scared here!
I'm leaving you the complex model communication apparatus! Okay?
You two, imagine that you're in zero gravity.
Right! Floating! Like floating!
Yeah! That's right!
This... how do I describe it... umm...
I think it would be better if you slow down while moving. Like your right foot...
Then, how many will do?
Slowly, slowly. There!
How many rolls?
It's five.
Five.
That's it. That's it. Not going up like that, going up.
Move further.
That's right. Good!
Then let's go!
Take one!
Ready!
Start!
Boom!
Ryouta! Ryouta.
Oh. Thanks.
Whoopsie.
Hey, here, give me that.
Okay. Got it.
Thanks.
You aren't really cousins, are you?
How can you tell?
Just by looking.
You know I...
After the filming of this movie, I'll be going to America with a scholarship.
To train as a cameraman.
You probably don't notice his troubles but I'll leave those to you.
If you were asked not to go, what will you do?
Hm?
If she...
...asked you not to go, what will you do?
There's no way she'll ask that.
But what if she asked you.
She'll probably say that I should go.
She's strong if you look at her.
Rather than saying "Don't go"
she'll say "Go" while giving me a pat on the back.
Gotetsu! Come here a sec!
Hm?
About the first cut,
the camera didn't zoom in.
I'm thinking this shot with the camera would be better.
Hm? Where?
Like I said, in the first cut.
First cut.
It's coming from the top.
I have no choice but to link the direct transmission data.
Is that true, Hiro!?
Even if I'm waiting for death,
I don't want to regret anything!
Ah!
Are we going to die?!
No way!
Aaah!
Cut! Cut! Cut!
Ah, wait! Hey!
Haru...
Farewell...
Cut!
Okay!
Sempai!
We can completely end the shoot now right?
We're done!
Good job, everyone!
Good job! Thank goodness!
Good job! Good job!
Good job! Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you!
Don't you dare cry.
I'm not crying!
Kazuko-san.
What if...
Gotetsu-san says that he's going far away?
Another strange question.
Is that about him going to America?
Ah...
No, besides that.
I want him to do his best.
I want to support him in what he likes to do.
That's because I want to give him even a bit of courage.
So you love him.
Yup.
The part where Haru says "Ah!" was really good.
That was good.
What will you do next?
I'm going to go and return the equipment.
Can I go with you?
I'm fine with it, but it's just an equipment shop.
Then, I'll go with you.
Okay.
Men in the '70s are troublesome.
So tomorrow is the publication of the notice on the newspaper.
Yup.
I hope he finds out.
Yeah.
Everyone is is probably waiting far away.
That's right.
This song...
Takurou?
So this song came from this era.
Hey.
Hm?
Why?
Why did you help me?
Why ask all of a sudden?
No reason.
Well...
If a pretty girl like me asked for a favor
it's natural not to refuse, huh?
In the future, you will become a big shot director.
Marry a beautiful lady.
Then have adorable kids. That's what I think.
But you know...
The you in that time,
I'll just be...
...someone in your past, huh?
I just think...
Even though if I came from the future....
That sounded a bit strange, huh?
I'm going out for a bit.
Ryouta?
Gotetsu!
Sorry coming out of the blue.
So? What's up?
Can you lend me your camera?
I want to change just the last scene.
What is it?
I want to shoot just this last scene in my own way, no matter what.
I'll really appreciate it.
I beg you.
Got it.
I'll lend you one.
Thank you.
No prob.
There it is!
Fukamachi Kazuo. Come to the middle school's laboratory on March 2, Saturday.
Eh?
I'll be the one in it?
Ready...
Start!
I wonder if the cherry blossoms here are still blooming 36 years later.
Yup.
They're still blooming.
Only this part didn't change.
When your era comes...
Yeah.
It would be nice to stand here and watch the cherry blossoms bloom here like we are now.
That's right.
Though at that time, would it still be alright even if I'm a 56 year old geezer?
Receiving!
Receiving?
Ah...
I'm saying that I'm accepting what we just discussed.
Receiving... Accepting...
Receiving.
Received.
Ken. I want you to check on this.
What's this?
Yes. Ah...
Ah...
Ah please hold on.
Ryouta!
Phone.
It's your mother.
Hello?
Ah. Welcome back.
Hey, did you get the film?
When will it be done?
Huh?
Ah, I just can't wait to see it.
I was wondering when it would be complete.
Ryouta?
My old man collapsed.
It was a stroke.
It was because of overwork.
The truth is, he was against me going to Tokyo.
After the effects of the oil crisis
it all went downhill for the factory
and it became impossible to overturn the situation.
I already knew that but I still didn't go home.
I set aside the struggles of my dad
just because it felt natural for me to leave home.
It's not your fault that your father collapsed.
Because... he supported you, right?
Even so... I...
...kept on filming movies without a care.
What the fuck was I doing?
Hey...
Even if it's not right away...
Even if time passes!
You can still complete this, right?!
Like a person from the future can understand it.
Ah! Ah! Hot!
Hot! Hot! Hot!
Ouch!
Ah!
Eh?!
So you were the one that called me?
Could it be...
You are Fukamachi Kazuo-san?
Who are you?
A...
I'm Akari.
Yoshiyama Akari.
I'm Yoshiyama Kazuko's daughter.
Yoshiyama Kazuko?
Who made the time traveling elixir?
My mother.
Yoshiyama-kun made it?
Yes.
So that she could meet you.
But...
She got into an accident.
She's now in a hospital.
That's why...
I took her place and came here for her.
What's her condition?
I see...
That truth is...
I should have leapt to April 1972.
I made a mistake.
But...
Why?
Now...
You are not a high school student.
I...
...came from the year 2698.
2698?
We received news that someone has leapt through time and is searching for Fukamachi Kazuo,
with an elixir that should have not been developed yet before 2010.
In order to confirm that, I followed the traces of your time leap and came here.
News?
Newspaper.
It showed the name of missing person.
My real name is... Ken Sogoru.
Ken Sogoru.
But...
Until the year 2698...
So it did reach you.
Sogoru.
Amazing.
Ah.
That's right.
So even if her memories were erased...
She still searched for me?
She said "The promise hasn't been erased."
Please tell me.
What was the promise between you and my mother?
I was in the middle of an experiment with the time leaping elixir when I came to this place.
The truth is, I forgot to bring an extra elixir to go back.
Until I finished making that elixir
I existed in this era and lived as Fukamachi Kazuo.
During that time... I met her.
She accidentally inhaled the elixir's scent.
Since then, she gained a small amount of the ability to leap through time.
That scent...
...is this lavender.
And during that time, she fell in love with me...
But I had to return to the future no matter what.
And I had no choice but to erase her memories of my existence.
Because that is the rule.
Someday...
...will you see me again?
Yes.
Not as Fukamachi Kazuo but as a completely different person.
I will definitely meet the future you.
Even if my memories are erased...
My heart will always remember this promise.
You have finished the mission.
With this, you have no choice but to go home.
My mission now is to erase your memories of this and the memories of the people you met here.
Please wait.
There is just one person I want to meet.
After I meet him, I will return to the future.
I understand.
I will wait until the evening.
I'll be waiting at the university laboratory where we first met. - Akari
I finally delivered my Mom's message.
It would have been better if I met him too.
I'm sure you would be surprised.
It's completely not like you imagined.
I will be taking the night bus tonight.
After I arrive tomorrow morning, I'll call you.
Tomorrow.
Ah...
Tomorrow's my birthday.
I forgot.
Just what is that?
Right?
This.
I want you to hold on to this.
What's this?
The movie's film.
There's no sound yet though.
I'll be going back quickly so...
I will make sure to complete this movie.
When I come back...
Let's watch the movie together.
It's my birthday gift to you.
By the time you come back...
...I won't be here anymore.
Thank you.
Don't lose the film.
Excuse me.
Sorry about that.
Akari-san?
Ah...
Gorou... Gorou-chan.
Yeah.
What's with the luggage?
Ah. I'm going on a ski trip.
I forgot my bus ticket at home.
There's only 20 minutes left before the bus leaves.
Hey, wait, wait.
From where?
Eh? Shinjuku.
Eh? Where is your house again?
Futagotamagawa.
Wait...
It's obvious that you won't make it.
Ah dammit! I was really looking forward to it!
Well, where were you planning on going?
Akita's Noshiro skiing place.
Akita.
I will be taking the night bus tonight.
A bus going to Noshiro Akita prefecture had an accident late at night.
It was the 4th bus going north.
On the dawn of March 3rd, it fell off a cliff.
Including the crew and the passengers, a total of 38 valuable lives were taken away.
You know I...
I was planning on riding that bus.
Tomorrow morning
after I arrive, I'll call you.
I'll be going back quickly.
Akari-san.
What's wrong?
Ryouta...
Wait! Akari-san?!
Advising passengers of the bus headed for the foot of the mountain to Numazu
the riding place has now been changed to the west entrance inside the rotary.
The special bus has arrived at bus stop number 26.
Excuse me.
Ah!
Excuse me. Where is the bus going to Akita?
The bus going to Akita is over there.
Wait! Your ticket!
I'll go down right away!
Ryouta?
Ryouta.
Ryouta?
Ma'am, we'll get delayed.
Where is the bus going to Akita?
Well, only this.
The one going to Noshiro is there.
Noshiro
Ryouta!
Ryouta! Ryouta!
Let me go! Let me go!
People from the future cannot change the past.
Then...
I won't be returning to the future!
I will stay here!
Ryouta!
Ryouta!!
Ryouta!
Wait!
Ryouta!
Wait!
Ryouta!
Let me go!
No matter how unfortunate the accident was, we cannot change history.
Let me go! Stop the time!
Ryouta!
I'm sorry...
Ryouta, I'm sorry...
I will now erase your memory.
Today, 36 years ago on March 3, 1974,
Let's travel through time.
A bus going to Noshiro Akita prefecture had an accident late at night.
Passengers going home and many ski passengers who rode the bus...
So you received my message.
Yes.
And you've come here as Fukamachi Kazuo.
Thank you.
She is really like you.
Again, someday...
...in the future.
Mom!
Mom?
Mom!
My mother woke up!
Mom, you know me?
Akari.
Akari...
To be sure, we will do an MRI scan.
But with her current condition, everything seems fine.
Thank you very much.
Akari.
Hm?
Somehow...
I smell a nostalgic scent.
Nostalgic scent?
Yeah.
Hm?
This?
That's a lavender.
Who placed it here, I wonder?
But...
It's a good scent.
Here.
Hm?
Yes, Yoshiyama residence.
This is Hasegawa.
Are you Akari?
Yes.
How's your Mom?
She has regained consciousness so she's fine now.
Oh. I see.
U-umm...
Hm?
I want to ask you something.
Doing good?
So you're going to watch an 8mm film.
Yeah.
I see.
Who's the director?
What's the title?
"Planet of Light"
What is it?
Well, there is that title...
Something we filmed a long time ago with an old friend has the same title as that.
Ah...
Then, I'm going to borrow this film projector.
Okay. Can you carry it?
Yeah. I'm good.
Ah, okay.
A friend with a car is coming here.
Ah, I see.
See you then.
See you.
Thank you.
Motomiya... are you sure you know how to use that?
Leave it to me!
Okay. Okay. Okay.
I'm turning it off.
Okay. Here we go.
Okay.
Planet of Light
What is this?
Please don't let the last cherry blossom be just a painting.
Director Mizorogi Ryouta
What the hell was that? I don't understand a thing!
Whoopsie.
Akari? Why are you crying?
I wonder...
I don't know...
This.
It was kept inside.
So that we can watch the cherry blossoms bloom in the future.
[Notes] Shouwa is the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of the Shouwa Emperor, Hirohito, from December 25, 1926 to January 7, 1989. Shouwa 47 is 1972.
[Notes] Heisei is the the current era name in Japan. It started on January 8, 1989, the first day after the death of the reigning Emperor, Hirohito and where his son, Akihito, succeeded to the throne. Ryouta mistakenly read Heisei to Hirasei because of first kanji of Heisei can also be read like that.
[Notes] Unlike in English calender where there are names in the months, Japanese calendar don't have names in the months but rather have numbers. That's why Akari easily got mixed up the year and month when she time leaped.
[Notes] There are some colloquial terms used in the movie that during 1974, the terms used by Akari are not familiar to Ryouta. Keitai/Cellphone literally means handheld in the 70s; Otaku/Geek wasn't a common word and easily mistaken as home or house; Also the Gekikawa/Excessively cute/Twee dress that Akari was showing off; And the expression ukeru/received.