Japan Creative Centre
FREE ADMISSION!

The Japan Creative Centre invites you to join us at our JCC film screening and creative session. As part of JCC's creative program, we will be screening exciting Japanese movies at the end of every month. The screening will then be followed by an informative sharing session where guest speakers will share their thoughts and insights on all things Japan!

For our fourth session, we will be screening "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" with a talk by Prof Masa Inakage, Dean and Professor at the Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University. Prof Inakage will share insights on how the film, brimming with energy and imagination, managed to captivate audiences around the world with its highly effective visual artistry, creativity and witty storytelling. You will be able to understand and experience first-hand the magic of the critically-acclaimed animation, widely-regarded as a masterpiece. Prof Inakage will also elaborate on what JMAF is all about, and what it means to have a robust media art landscape in Singapore.

Makoto Konno is a teenager living in the Shitamachi area of Tokyo. One day after school, she discovers a message written on a blackboard and falls upon a mysterious, walnut-shaped object. On her way home, Makoto is ejected into a railroad crossing when she loses control of her bicycle and is killed by a train. However she is transported a few minutes back in time to before the accident. Makoto learns from her aunt Kazuko Yoshihara that she has the power to "time-leap", to literally leap through time.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time took home the Gertie Award for the best animated feature film at the thirty-ninth Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia. It won the Animation Grand Award, given to the year's most entertaining animated film, at the prestigious sixty-first Annual Mainichi Film Awards. It received the Grand Prize in the animation division at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival. At the sixth annual Tokyo International Anime Fair, which opened on March 22, 2007, the film was recognized as "Animation of the Year" and won several awards.