Director Yûichirô Hirakawa
Staring Tatsuya Fujiwara Tamae Andô, Kasumi Arimura, Yasushi Fuchikami
Rated Under 15s must be accompanied by an adult.
Score 6/6

Satoru Fujinuma is a manga artist struggling to find inspiration. He experiences a phenomenon he calls ‘revival’: an ability that forces him to relive the moments preceding life-threatening incidents over and over until they’re resolved. When his mother is suddenly murdered and he becomes the primary suspect, ‘revival’ sends him eighteen years into the past. The year is now 1988, Satoru is ten years old, and in a few days’ time a classmate will be found dead. But what does her murder, and the murders of other children, have to do with his mother’s? How is the past linked to the present?

For those of you who are interested Erased was adapted from the award-winning manga “Boku Dake ga Inai Machi” by Kei Sanbe which was serialized from June 4, 2012 to March 4, 2016.
I’m not sure if I have discussed this before in one of my reviews but long before I started The Movie Boards one of the ways that I knew that I really liked a movie (and perhaps connected with it on some level) is that I would get a tingling sensation in the pit of my stomach when the credits rolled (it happens during specific moments and also on occasion all the way through a movie). I know it might seem a little strange or silly (but I am sure that you all have your own movie watching quirks) the only reason that I bring it up is that it happened when the credits rolled for Erased.
Going into this I was completely unfamiliar with the manga that the movie was based on, I suppose it was the whole concept of the ‘revival’ that caught my attention. There are more than a few moments that I would like to revive and sure that even you might have a few. In a way Erased sort of reminded me of the television series Quantum Leap that ran from March 1989 through May 1993 and stared Scott Bakula.
There was also some brilliant child actors cast in this movie most notably Tsubasa Nakagawa and Rio Suzuki.