'The Girl who Leapt Through Time' (1983) - Nobuhiko Obayashi.

This may well sound like fanciful hyperbole, but The Girl who Leapt through time remains one of the loveliest, most expressly romantic teenage dreamscapes I have seen. Whenever I revisit it, Obayashi's smartly sci-fi'd, coming-of-age fantasy warmly expands my increasingly jaded middle-aged heart to bursting! This charming, perceptive, sweetly acted, timelessly time-warping adventure provides a compelling, singularly immersive experience that sadly concludes all too quickly. Magical cinema that miraculously evokes the tender, deliciously mad rapture of burgeoning young love are, frankly, no less rarefied than the experience itself. A uniquely uplifting experience, and exceptionally well crafted, The Girl who Leapt Through Time has manifestly retained all of its undiminished magical allure! With a gossamer wing sensitivity, The Girl who Leapt Through Time transports the viewer into an elegiac, beautifully humane world that is both wholly familiar and deliciously strange, mirroring life itself, maestro Obayashi's exquisite film proves to be a circuitous journey that is not altogether predictable.