Although The Girl Who Leapt Through Time has been adapted into numerous live-action films, live-action TV dramas, and a 2006 anime film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, this stage production marks the first time the novel has been adapted into a stage play.
One of Tsutsui’s best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (known in Japan as Toki wo Kakeru Shōjo), a classic 1965 romantic science fiction novel about a high school girl who accidentally acquires the power to time-travel, is being adapted into a stage-play that will run for 10 performances at the Panasonic Globe Theatre in Tokyo in February of 2018.