TV series

Tokio: Message Across Time
2004 · 1 season
A gentle, slightly quirky time-travel drama that mixes family warmth with low-stakes suspense and a touch of humour.
- Created by
- Yoshiko Hoshida
- Genres
- Sci-fi & fantasy, Drama
- Starring
- Taichi Kokubun, Sho Sakurai, Yasuko Tomita
- Overview
- Has one person changed your life? A proud but lazy loser, Takumi dreams of getting rich as he gambles his girlfriend's money away. One day, he is rescued from a fight by a strange young man named Tokio. Tokio tells a weird story -- that he is Takumi's son from the future and has come to save his old man from a tragedy! Before this can sink in, Takumi's girlfriend disappears. Can they save her? Or will the future change for the worse?
- How it feels
- Warm, earnest, whimsical and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Family, fate, redemption, love
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Yoshiko Hoshida
- Genres
- Sci-fi & fantasy, Drama
- Starring
- Taichi Kokubun, Sho Sakurai, Yasuko Tomita









