A present-day teenager finds herself pulled into the last months of World War Two in Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill, Youichi Narita's romantic drama set against Japan's kamikaze program.
What is Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hil about?
Haruka Fukuhara plays Yuri, a disaffected teenager whose ordinary frustrations give way to something stranger when she is transported back to 1945. There she meets Akira, a young kamikaze pilot played by Koshi Mizukami, and the two form a bond shaped entirely by the shortness of the time they have. Youichi Narita builds the film around the gap between Yuri's present-day expectations and the wartime world she has landed in, where letters, uniforms, and departures carry a weight her own life never prepared her for. Supporting performances from Kentaro Ito, Shusaku Kamikawa, Hayato Onozuka, Natsuki Deguchi, Yoshiyuki Tsubokura, and Keiko Matsuzaka fill out the base and the community around the airfield, giving the central romance a wider wartime backdrop rather than isolating it.
About the cast
Haruka Fukuhara and Koshi Mizukami carry the central relationship, with Kentaro Ito, Shusaku Kamikawa, Hayato Onozuka, Natsuki Deguchi, Yoshiyuki Tsubokura, and Keiko Matsuzaka filling the ensemble around them under Youichi Narita's direction.
Context & significance
Released in Japan in 2023, Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill runs 127 minutes and blends historical drama with romance and a time-travel device, using 1945 as a fixed, unchangeable backdrop rather than a setting the story can rewrite. The genre mix — drama, historical, romance, war — places it alongside other Japanese features that revisit the final year of the Second World War through a young, present-day perspective looking backward, and the film's length gives it room to sit with the wartime setting rather than rush through it.
Watching Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hil on Ktime
Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, giving Farsi-speaking audiences a way into Narita's wartime romance without relying on subtitles. Watching requires a free K-Time account login, though the film's page is open to browse without one, and the platform's Farsi-first design is built with the Iranian diaspora in mind.