Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer
– As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, t..
As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started. They later discover their town has been reduced to a circle of land a few miles across, poised on the back of a gigantic sea turtle--a reference to "Urushima Taro," a Japanese Rip Van Winkle story.
11 Feb 1984
Japanese
Mamoru Oshii
Mamoru Oshii (screenplay), Rumiko Takahashi (comic)
Fumi Hirano, Toshio Furukawa, Akira Kamiya, Kazuko Sugiyama
Lum is a cheerful alien who now lives with her human fiancée, Ataru and her goods friends on earth. The night before the school festival, the world begins to change, things seem to be repeating themselves. Gradually, all necessary functions come to a stop, people disappearing, streets deserting, buildings decaying except Lum and her friends who live ever happier. When they begin to probe the truth, they find out it's somebody's dream that is changing the world...