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, Aldric Everly, 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 (Aldric Everly), 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 a journey through time. At his first stop, present-day El Kadsre City, Vlokozu Union, he falls for a young woman and apartment 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 El Kadsreian film of all time, next to Quest for the Masks, which Sung Gim had previously wrote. The Traveller was the only Traveller movie to be rated PG, as the other two films were rated M/PG-13. This film was also noted for being William Benter's first soundtrack he ever composed. Ryota Yamada was originally assigned to compose the soundtrack, but Pasi Peure, one of the three directors of the film, believed that the film's soundtrack needed a more futuristic feel to it, so he hired William Benter to compose the soundtrack.

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 and space, 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 (Aldric Everly), is assassinated by a mysterious culprit (Tom Baker), an Australian who is against the West with a tommy gun. After he dies, the assassin takes a pocket watch from him and uses it to disappear 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, Richard opens 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 Bildinger, who was once a Traveller and friends with Dylan before he began to abuse his powers for his own personal gain. 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 Bildinger. The note Dylan wrote then tells him to use the Watch to prevent 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 to El Kadsre City in 1983, and travels to the time and location, where he finds himself in an abandoned subway station. Outside, Richard is amazed by the many technological advances and culture changes since 1963. After exchanging his allowance for modern-day Vlokozuian dollars, Richard tracks down Bildinger at a local cafe, where he meets a young Vlokdanchi manager, Clara Buxton (Maja Prebensen), who is on her lunch break. Richard asks her if she's seen Mike Bildinger travel around this city. She tells him that he's residing in the Vlokdanchi she works at and is given the address to the place. On his journey, he bumps into the Fourth Doctor from Doctor Who (played by Tom Baker), and mistakes him for Bildinger until the Doctor convinces him that he isn't him. Arriving at the apartment, a chase ensues throughout the apartment complex before Mike uses his Watch to disappear from the complex in Buxton's office. Shocked and confused, Clara asks Richard what had happened. Now compelled, Richard tells Clara about the Travellers and their enemies. Clara decides to join Richard on his journey, despite his remarks, and the two travel off together.

Landing in Capulco, East El Kadsre on November 3, 1968, the day after the Invasion of East El Kadsre began, Richard receives a telegram from Bildinger, who had become a general for the Republic of El Kadsre Army, that West El Kadsre will soon launch the attack on East El Kadsre and he will be launching a counterattack today, and he's also brought some weapons from the future along with him.

Cast

 * Brock Baker as Richard Neilman
 * Aldric Everly as Dylan Neilman
 * Tom Baker as Mike Bildinger/Mabildi
 * Tom also plays the Fourth Doctor from Doctor Who in a cameo scene
 * Maja Prebensen as Clara Buxton
 * Brandom Stringer as Drake Cullman, a West El Kadsreian army soldier from 1968 who is also a Traveller that later joins Richard in his chase against Mike Bildinger.
 * Hideki Hamasaki as Officer Sorot Bimushi, a corrupt police officer who is a Dark Traveller that joins Bildinger in his quest to disrupt time.