The Time Traveler (film)

The Time Traveler (タイムトラベラー, Taimutoraberā) is a 2006 animated romance drama science fiction film based on the 1997 manga series by Ryotaro Sekizawa, who co-produced and co-wrote the movie. It was directed by Gorō Taniguchi and co-written by Zak Penn and Akiva Goldsman. It stars the voices of Michael Angarano, Hilary Duff, Dustin Hoffman, Josh Peck, Evan Rachel Wood, Ron Perlman, Martin Landau, Judy Greer, Simon Pegg and Gary Cole. An international co-production between the United States and Japan, The Time Traveler was produced at Tokyo-based animation studio Sunrise for Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Atmosphere Entertainment MM and The Donners' Company. The film is about a seventeen year boy named Atsushi Maekawa (Angarano), who one day, meets a girl who appeared in a ball of light named Riko Hattori (Hilary Duff), who was sent from the future to his time period to protect him, for something that happened to him led to a chain of events in the future since, and seemingly a fellow student (Rachel Wood) has something to do with it.

The Time Traveler was released in North American theaters on April 21, 2006 and in Japanese theaters on May 27, 2006. It received positive reviews from critics with praise for it's characters, storyline, animation and faithfulness to the source material, and grossed $136.5 million against a budget of $30 million. It was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film, both losing to Cars.

Plot
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Cast

 * Micheal Anagarano as Atsushi Maekawa
 * Hilary Duff as Riko Hattori
 * Dustin Hoffman as Yoshiyuki Izumi
 * Josh Peck as Shigeo Uyemura
 * Evan Rachel Wood as Chinatsu Anzai
 * Ron Perlman as Torvald Makino
 * Martin Landau as Saburo Nonoka
 * Judy Greer as Toshiko Usui
 * Simon Pegg as Takeshi Kawahara
 * Gary Cole as Shoichi Machida
 * Jeff Bennett, Joel McCrary, Kath Soucie, Tom Kenny and Kevin Michael Richardson as the VALO workers
 * Dwight Schultz as Toshiaki Yamagata
 * Mae Whitman as Mitsuru Otani
 * Michelle Arthur and Keith Ferguson as Atsushi's parents
 * Rob Paulsen as Takayuki Nagai
 * Mikey Kelley as Nobuo Uyeno
 * Liam O'Brien as Kenshin Maekawa
 * Jennifer Hale as Shizuka Oe
 * Michael McConnohie as an inspector
 * Charlie Adler as Tomio Furuta
 * Grey DeLisle, Nicholas Guest and Kirk Baily as the teachers
 * Alan Shearman as Katashi Eto
 * Grey DeLisle as Riko's Mother
 * Andre Sogluizzo as an officer
 * Kari Wahlgren as a news reporter

Additional Voices

 * Alan Shearman
 * Kirk Baily
 * Rob Paulsen
 * Nicholas Guest
 * Kari Wahlgren
 * Debi Mae West
 * Quinton Flynn
 * Andrea Taylor
 * Bridget Hoffman
 * Sherry Lynn
 * Edie Mirman
 * Dina Sherman
 * Stephen Apostolina
 * Phil Proctor
 * Sam Riegel
 * Richard Epcar

Release
The Time Traveler premiered on April 16, 2006, in Westwood, Los Angeles and was released to theaters in the United States on April 21, 2006. It would then be released to Japan on May 27, 2006, with the local branch of Warner Bros. Pictures handling distribution. The Time Traveler was also digitally re-mastered into IMAX format (IMAX DMR) and released in select IMAX theatres around the world.

Home media
The Time Traveler was released on DVD and HD DVD in both full screen and widescreen on July 25, 2006. The film's DVD release proved to be very successful, selling about 478,362 units by July 30, 2006, making it the third best selling DVD release of the week behind The Benchwarmers and Final Destination 3. The DVD release includes a behind the scenes featurette on the film's production, three deleted scecnes, interviews with the voice actors, a featurette profiling Ryotaro Sekizawa, a music video and the movie's theatrical trailer. Warner Home Video later released the film on Blu-ray on February 13, 2007.