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Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo Author Talks Remake Success
Date: 8/18/2006
Sankei Shimbun interviews Yasutaka Tsutsui who in 1972 penned the juvenile sci-fi novel Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo. Madhouse's anime film adaptation directed by Mamoru Hosoda is running in limited release now. The author talks of the remake sucess his work and Japan Sinks (originally released as a novel in 1948) have been enjoyng at the Japanese boxoffice. He attributes the enduring allure of such stories to the fact that they are science fiction, always lying in the realm of the future, so they can be revived and retold: "SF will be prophesied in the future always". He surmises the recent boom in adaptation to anime and live action of the above works and Paprika being directed by Satoshi Kon may lie in the fact that the full world atmosphere / immersion experience of the original stories can only just recently be achieved through advances in CG and animation technology.
Source: Anime News Service