Shortly after having its premiere in Fantasia 2025, we had the chance to see “Rewrite”, a Japanese film that shows that without using expensive special effects you can have a great story about time travel, romance and personal growth.
So what is “Rewrite”, the new film directed by Daigo Matsui about?
Miyuki is a regular high school student who suddenly discovers that the transfer student in her class, Yasuhiko, is actually a time traveler from the future. Promising to keep this as a secret, Miyuki and him grow closer, more so when Yasuhiko confides the reason for him to travel to this point in his past.
It turns out that in his own time, Yasuhiko read a novel set in Miyuki’s town and era, and he wanted to experience the things described in the novel first hand. Soon, when Miyuki herself briefly travels into the future, her future self reveals that she is the writer of the novel, and that she should work hard to make it happen. Yasuhiko shortly returns to his time after Miyuki promises to write the book.