Summer Time Machine Blues (2005) - Third Window Films Review
Welcome to Sensei Sensibility! You are the hungry mind yearning to devour quality Asian cinema; I am the (questionably) knowledgeable Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. "Time is a lot less forgiving than you think..." If my ever increasing grey hairs and deepening crow's feet are anything to go by, truer words were never spoken. However, if you're looking for absolute cinematic escapism, it doesn't come much richer than in Katsuyuki Matsohiro's 2005 sci-fi comedy Summer Time Machine Blues. If you like hilarious, heart-warming coming of age films that perfectly encapsulate the quintessential Japanese summer - then Summer Time Machine Blues from Third Window Films will not disappoint. Directed by Katsuyuki Motohiri, written by Makoto Ueda - and adapted from Ueda's original play of the same name - STMB takes place on a rural college campus during an intense summer heatwave. The boisterous boys of the sc...