Title? Japanese science fiction movie a lot like E.T. (1 Viewer)

[Kevin C Brown]

I've seen this in the past, and even bought a copy for a friend, but for the life of me, I can't remember the title.

 

Sort of like a family/children's movie that adults can enjoy too.

 

Thanks !

 

[DevinTretiak]

Princess on the Moon maybe? If so, Criterion's been sitting on that one for years. I'm sure they'll dump it into an Eclipse set eventually.

 

[Kevin C Brown]

No ... It's already out on DVD. Man, I can't believe I'm having so much trouble finding out what this is. I suppose I can ask the person I got it for, or I can try and search my past purchases at Amazon (which is where I probably bought it), or I can search my prior Netflix rentals (which is probably where I saw my copy), but this was several years ago ...

 

 

[Kevin C Brown]

Any suggestions for how to search for this on Netflix or Google would be appreciated too. I checked all the foreign sci fi on Netflix and didn't see it. And I tried to search for "Japanese science fiction like E.T." on Google, and got a lot of E.T. references, but not the one I'm looking for. Might start with an "h" ...

 

[Bob Cashill]

Maybe Stephen Chow's Hong Kong film CJ7?

 

[Worth]

If it's fairly recent, it might be CJ7, though it's from Hong Kong, not Japan:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0940709/

 

Or possibly Returner, which is from Japan:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339579/

 

[Kevin C Brown]

Yes, yes !! It's Returner !! I have to write that down now so I don't forget. Thank you Worth.

 

I need to see CJ7 too ...