The Traveller (1983 film)

The Traveller, known in marketing as The Traveller: The Jounrey Through Time is a 1983 Vlokozuian kadsrefantasy adventure film directed by Pasi Peure, Ryu Hamasaki, Sung Gim. Written by Peure and Robert Loncar, it stars Brock Baker in his major film debut, Patrick Stewart, Tom Baker, Brandom Stringer, Hideki Hamasaki, and Maja Prebensen. Set in 1963 Cliffstown, West El Kadsre during the Inter-El Kadsre conflict, a young man, Richard Neilman (Brock Baker), discovers that his uncle, Dylan Neilman (Patrick Stewart) whom he resided with after his father's death, had the ability to travel through time using his pocket watch, otherwise known as a "Traveller's Watch", and, after he is killed by a mysterious assassin, who takes one of the two Watches he owned, Richard takes the other Watch to chase the assassin, Mike Bildinger (Tom Baker), into present-day El Kadsre City. There, he falls for a young woman and hotel desk manager, Clara Buxton (Maja Prebensen), who joins him in his adventure to stop Bildinger from changing the past and future.

The Traveller was released on December 16, 1983 by Banushen Pictures and produced by Ryu Hamasaki Releasing. Upon release, the film received acclaim from critics and audiences worldwide, with praise for its special effects, acting, plot, and soundtrack, grossing $587 million worldwide on an $85 million budget. It was even considered the second-best film from the EKI of all time, next to Quest for the Masks, which Sung Gim had previously wrote. The Traveller was one of the only two Traveller movies to be rated PG.

Plot
Once every decade, 13% of the world's population is granted the ability to use a pocket watch which has the ability to travel through time, known as the Traveller's Watch. These people, known as "Travellers", travel through time to prevent major events in history from being changed and to stop evil Travellers who squander their abilities for evil, referred to as, "Dark Travellers", and sometimes aliens known as the Xuvia, in order to avoid altering the course of history. The only ones who know about a Traveller and their true life are other Travellers and those that Travellers trust. Those who have inheirited a Traveller's Watch from its former user, if its former user is related to or is a close friend with the inheiritor, will become a Traveller themselves, and must fufill their duty as a Traveller to protect the past, present, and future.

In Cliffstown, West El Kadsre, 1963, during the Inter-El Kadsre conflict, a man, Dylan Neilman (Patrick Stewart), is assassinated by a mysterious culprit (Tom Baker) from East El Kadsre with a tommy gun, after he dies, the assassin takes a pocket watch from him and uses it to dissappear from East El Kadsre. One week later, Richard Neilman (Brock Baker), who was Dylan's nephew and had lived with him ever since his father's death four years ago, attends his uncle's funeral and will reading, where he is left with a key to a small chest in the kitchen he was forbidden to open until Dylan's death and 20,000 worth of WEK£. Arriving home to open the chest, Richard enters the kitchen, uses the key to open the chest, and inside is a posthumous note and a stopwatch similar to the one the assassin took. The note explains that Dylan was a Traveller, and the assassin that killed him was a Dark Traveller named Mike Blidinger, who was once a Traveller and friends with Dylan before he began to abuse his powers. As a result, Dylan confiscated his Traveller's Watch away from him, connecting both Mike and Dylan's Watches together, granting the ability to have each other's Watches track its current time and location. Dylan foresaw his death when travelling to the future, and wrote the note before he was shot by Blidinger. The note Dylan wrote then tells him to use the stop watch to stop Mike from altering the future.

After packing half of his fund inheiritance, along with other supplies, such as a pistol and a notebook to keep track of his current time, Richard tracks down Mike's Watch