Summer Time Machine Blues

Summer Time Machine Blues (サマータイムマシン・ブルース, 2005) is a Japanese sci-fi comedy you can watch online on iFILM. The set-up is pleasingly absurd: members of a university sci-fi club spill Coke on their air-conditioner remote in the middle of a brutal summer. No remote, no AC. Then a time machine materializes in their clubroom.

Going back one day to retrieve the undamaged remote sounds like the obvious fix. It is not. Director Katsuyuki Motohiro spins the premise into a tight chain of cause-and-effect paradoxes where each solution generates a new mess. Low stakes, tidy logic, good fun. Stream Summer Time Machine Blues online on iFILM.