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Take Me Away

Japan Release: 1978
Running Time: 92 minutes

Take Me Away


Japanese Title

ふりむけば愛
[Furimukeba Ai]

Distributor: Production:

Toho
HoriPro

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Titles
International Title

Take Me Away

 Initial US Title

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US Distributor: - / Time: -
Alternate Titles

If She Looks Back, It's Love
[Literal Translation]

Take Me Away!
[Japan English Title]


Staff

Cast
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Writing credits James Miki
Produced by Takeo Hori, Hideo Sasai
Music by Naoshi Miyazaki
Cinematography by Kenji Hagiwara
Film Editing by Jun Nabeshima
Assistant Director Nobuyuki Saito		 Kyoko Ishiguro Momoe Yamaguchi
Tetsuo Tamaru Tomokazu Miura
Matsuko Ishiguro, Kyoko's Brother Tomoko Naraoka
Tomi Oguchi Yoko Minamida
Osamu Oguchi Akitsugi Moritsugi
Ryunosuke Tamaru Eiji Okada
Arai, Professor Masaya Takahashi
Shintaro Ishiguro, Kyoko's Father Isao Tamagawa
Singer Toyokazu Minami

Posters
Japanese Poster
Japan
Japanese Pamphlet
Japan Pamphlet

Box Office
Release Date: July 22nd, 1978 (Japan)
Distribution Earning: ¥861,000,000 / $10,000,000 (Japan, Rough Figure)

Background and Trivia
  • Toho submitted the movie to the US copyright office on December 29th, 1997 with the registration number of PA0000891384. The film was submitted under its international title, Take Me Away, along with a Romaji title, Furimukeba Ai.
  • Writer James Miki and director Nobuhiko Obayashi were originally planning for this film to be in the suspense genre. However, that concept was eventually canceled, causing the pair to reimagine it as a romantic drama that ended up getting produced. Mentioned in Female Hero Reader (ISBN: 9784562051335).
  • Horipro proposed that the movie be shot abroad, but only on the condition it be filmed exclusively in San Francisco. Consequently, production was carried out in both Tokyo and San Francisco. Brought up in Nobuhiko Obayashi's Experiential Work Theory (ISBN: 4569825931).




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