Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust

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Movie: Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust
Romaji: Baburu e go!! Taimu mashin wa doramu-shiki
Japanese: バブルへＧＯ!!　タイムマシンはドラム式
Director: Yasuo Baba
Writer: Ryoichi Kimizuka
Producer: Chihiro Kameyama, Noriaki Kuramoto, Toru Miyazawa, Shohei Nishina
Cinematographer: Kosuke Matushima
Release Date: February 10, 2007
Runtime: 116 min.
Movie Studio: Fuji TV, Toho
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

When a brilliant 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 that triggered the nation's economic demise. But the mission hits a snag when the researcher disappears, forcing the government to send her estranged daughter, Mayumi - a debt-ridden bar hostess and the only other person the time machine will accept - back in time to find out what happened. Mayumi arrives at the peak of Japan's "bubble" economy and finds a society obsessed with 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's economy 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, he's seventeen years younger and completely unreliable.

From the production team that captured the mind-set of an entire generation with a trio of hit films in the late 80s, comes a nostalgia-inducing, science fiction comedy that satirizes Japanese bureaucracy, familiar values and the unrestrained madness during the "bubble era."