Film Review: Tokyo Girl

October 08, 2008 The concept of two lovers communicating across different temporal spheres, a popular subject in Korean romances in the early 2000s, may be enjoying a second wave in recent Japanese cinema. Following the success of time-travel films "Bubble Fiction" and "Cyborg She," "Tokyo Girl" concocts a romance-fantasy in which two young Tokyoites living 86 years apart connect through a mobile phone. The science fiction element is only a small component in "Tokyo Girl," which is ultimately an adolescent story touching on subjects that teenagers relate to such as problems with parents or identifying future goals.

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