When a brilliant female researcher accidentally turns an ordinary washing machine into a time machine, the Japanese government convinces her to travel back to 1990 and prevent the announcement of landmark fiscal policy which was a major cause of the bursting of the Japanese asset price bubble that triggered the nation's economic demise.
However, when contact is lost after she goes back in time, forcing the government to send her estranged daughter, Mayumi (Ryoko Hirosue) - a debt-ridden bar hostess and the only other person the time machine will accept - back in time to investigate. Mayumi arrives at the peak of Japan's "bubble" economy and finds a society obsessed with material wealth and profligate spending. With her warnings of impending doom falling on deaf ears, Mayumi's frustrated efforts to find her mother suggest some kind of conspiracy at work at the highest levels of government. Her own future and that of Japan itself begins to hinge on her ability to recruit the help of one man: the same finance bureaucrat who sent her through time. The problem is ...
| Original title | : | バブルへGO!!～タイムマシンはドラム式～ (Baburu e go!! Taimu mashin wa doramu-shiki) |
Stars:
Hiroshi Abe, Ryôko Hirosue, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Kazue Fukiishi, Yûko Itô, Hiroko Moriguchi, Ai Iijima, Naoko Iijima
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