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      Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust

      2007 1h 56m Comedy Sci-Fi List
      Reviews 76% Audience Score 250+ Ratings Mayumi Tanaka (Ryôko Hirosue) uses her mother's time machine to travel back to 1990. She teams up with the younger version of her mother's ex-boyfriend to stop the bubble economy from bursting. Read More Read Less

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      Anton Bitel Film4 There is little subtlety in the madcap time-travel comedy, but Baba's film affords a view of the massive recessionary changes undergone by Japan in a mere two decades, while dreaming of a future return to the nation's former affluence. Feb 25, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Japanese sci-fi comedy as Mayumi goes back in time (via a bright yellow washing machine) to rescue her mother Mariko, who's trying to prevent present-day money meltdown by stopping a politican in the 90's from bursting the economic bubble Cue jokes about mobiles, dance fashions, body-con fashions and spend-spend-spend and it all adds up to a silly and very entertaining film, even if you don't get all the Japanese jokes and cameos. <img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2008/11/picture_1.jpg"> . Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Udayalaksmanakartiyasa H not a good movie, yes. but i don't really care about the movie. just loved to watch Ryoko Hirosue here. XD Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/16/10 Full Review Audience Member A really good time travel comedy with a young female following her mother back in time to 1990 to save Japan's economy before the bubble burst. Instead of a telephone box or even a car to go back to the past they use a washing machine by Hitachi!!! The filmmakers faithfully recreate the Japan of the early 90's from the music to the clothes. A good little twist at the end as well. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member oh ryoko hirosue.... *jizzed* Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member A nice movie in the style of "back to the future", except that the plot actually makes sense here. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member I think I saw my first '90s nostalgia movie -- only it was for Japanese '90s nostalgia. LOL Not a bad little time travel movie that takes place before and after their economic bubble. Makes ya think what we might be in for with our bank failures and current credit crunch. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Mayumi Tanaka (Ryôko Hirosue) uses her mother's time machine to travel back to 1990. She teams up with the younger version of her mother's ex-boyfriend to stop the bubble economy from bursting.
      Director
      Yasuo Baba
      Producer
      Takashi Ishihara, Norio Hayashi, Kenji Shimizu
      Screenwriter
      Ryoichi Kimizuka
      Genre
      Comedy, Sci-Fi
      Original Language
      Japanese
      Runtime
      1h 56m