Tenchi Mujo - The Movie

It aims to outrun its own time-travel premise. In 1970 a vengeful criminal flies back to erase Tenchi before birth, forcing a ragtag crew into temporal counter-espionage. The film lands its flashback happily without ever getting past the setup.

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Hiroshi Negishi directed Tenchi Mujo - The Movie in 1996. See Hiroshi Negishi's full filmography, where to start with Hiroshi Negishi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Hiroshi Negishi.

Tenchi Mujo - The Movie was released in 1996 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 95 minutes.