![]() ![]() The film is directed by Takahiro Miki who also directed My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday, a 2016 film in which an age difference in a relationship plays a major role (like in Heinlein’s story) although presented with a twist. It’s about cryonic preservation as a freezing fast track to the future, coupled with more temperate time travel to the past to solve the problems that keep two people (and a cat) apart in that future. The film has some differences to Heinlein’s original story, but the underlying theme is the same. Or rather its two relationships - one feline, one female - and over the decades the latter has been met with one or two raised eyebrows. The full title of the 2021 film, The Door into Summer – To the Future with You (夏への扉 – キミのいる未来へ), sees the addition of a tagline alluding to the story’s enduring relationship. It’s a science fiction story about love, loss and a lengthier cold snap in cryonic preservation to escape the pain. Instead, I chanced upon the trailer for The Door into Summer, the first ever film adaptation of the classic 1957 novel of the same name by Robert Heinlein. Having been treated to an uncharacteristic flurry of snow during a February cold snap in London, made worse by the sedentary lifestyle imposed by the coronavirus lockdown, I was looking forward to opening the door into spring. ![]()
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