Seasoned television director Ayuko Tsukahara (La Grande Maison Tokyo) plunders many of the same themes she explored in her 2018 feature debut Cafe Funiculi Funicula in her latest big-screen venture, the time-travel romance 1st Kiss.

Penned by Yuji Sakamoto, whose award-winning screenplay for Hirokazu Koreeda’s Monster also deals with temporal distortion and multiple perspectives, 1st Kiss follows a middle-aged widow as she travels back in time over and over again to the day she met her late husband in an effort to save him from his untimely fate.

Read my full South China Morning Post review here