The Girl who Leapt Through Time was one of the surprise animated joys in 06/07. But there was more than just that film...
“Toki O Kakeru Shojo” (or Tokikake) is probably the most adapted modern short story in Japanese Literature. As of date, there have been six different versions of the Tsutsui Yasutaka story in both TV and movies—the NHK drama “Time Traveler (‘72) with Shimada Junko; the ‘83 movie with Harada Tomoyo; the Fuji TV Drama special (‘84) with Minamino Yoko; the Fuji TV Drama special (‘94) with Uchida Yuki; the ‘97 movie with Nakamoto Nana; the TBS TV special (‘02) with Abe Natsumi and now Hosoda Mamoru’s anime movie. James' Review
And now it looks like there will be another film adaptation to add to this list. According to the blog Canned Dogs there has been a casting call for extras for another live action film. And according to Japanator, ...the film is going to be set in 1974, so they'll be going back to the original novel for all this. With this news there is a lot of lamenting that apparently there is no English translation of the novel, which would be great. Would someone out there please do something about that?