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An Introduction to The Door Into Summer
Intelligent young Soichiro Takakura has experienced tragedy in the past. His father passed away at the age of 17, and his mother before he was even born. He is then adopted by a family. Soichiro is taught everything there is to know about electronics and robots by his adoptive father, a robotics engineer. The family’s daughter Riko later develops feelings for Soichiro, but she keeps them to herself. Sadly, a car accident claims the lives of his adoptive parents as well. While Soichiro continues to live alone and inherits a piece of his adoptive father’s business, Future Works Enterprise, Riko moves in with her uncle Kazuhito (FWE).
As per his brother’s will, Kazuhito receives a third of the company’s shares in his name. Kazuhito uses his accounting assistant, Rin Shiraishi, to seduce Soichiro and obtain another one-third of the firm inscribed in her name as part of his scheme to acquire total control of it. Soichiro gives her the shares after falling for it.
After this, there are two ways to look at the story: from Soichiro’s (as the movie shows us), and from the perspective of the rest of the world. We’ll examine both viewpoints. Additionally keep in mind that there is only one timeline and one set of events between 1995 and 2025 in this movie. Nothing that happens during this time is changed in any manner.
The Door Into Summer| Soichiro’s Viewpoint on the Storyline
8th March 1995
Now that Kazuhito and Rin are significant shareholders, they cast the deciding vote to grant Mannix Enterprises the rights to the robotic designs and to deny Soichiro access to his own research. Everything in Soichiro’s house is taken by an FWE truck, which then drives away.
As Riko arrives and tells Soichiro she loves him, he tells her she should concentrate on her studies because she is still a young child.
Soichiro visits Credeus’ Cold Sleep office but is turned away because of his intoxication.
Later, Riko overhears Kazuhito and Rin discussing their plans for the Plasma Battery and flees for Soichiro’s house, but Kazuhito pursues her.
At Kazuhito’s, Soichiro arrives and threatens Rin, saying he will go to the media and reveal how he was duped. Soichiro gets diverted by Rin, who then injects him with a powerful medication. After clawing Rin, Pete-cat flees.
In a Cold Sleep capsule managed by a division of Mannix Enterprises, Soichiro awakens. Although Rin initially assisted them in evading taxes, they return the favour by independently managing Soichiro’s cryo-sleep.
8th March 2025
After 30 years, Soichiro awakens to learn that Mannix filed for bankruptcy a long time ago.
Unexpectedly, Pete, a humanoid nurse, is given to care for Soichiro. He will be known as Pete-bot.
Soichiro is told by the officials that Riko has been attempting to get in touch with him.
Pete-bot, who appears to be the first robot with artificial intelligence and is clearly self-aware, ignores his orders and departs with Soichiro, taking him to the location where Riko’s calls have been coming from.
It turns out that Rin has been calling pretending to be Riko because she is aware that Soichiro will only arrive in that manner. She claims that once she put Soichiro into Cold Sleep in 1995, everything went to hell. During that year, Kazuhito suffered a diabetic stroke, and a strange man bearing Soichiro’s stock certificates appeared, ruining everything for her. She also claims that Riko, who ran to Soichiro’s residence in the night he fell into Cold Sleep, vanished when the house exploded.
9th March 2025
Pete-bot and Soichiro arrive at Guardian Manufacturing, the business that purchased FWE. When they meet Gota Tsuboi, the president, he is in awe of Soichiro and claims that Soichiro inspired him to become an inventor. Gota says that Soichiro gave Aladdin (business) exclusive rights years ago, which confuses Soichiro because he doesn’t recall doing something like that. Finally, Gota brings up the fact that Professor Toi, another name Soichiro is unfamiliar with, was someone Soichiro had met decades earlier. He reveals that Toi was a frequent patron of his family’s eatery and was once detained for stealing university research funding.
Later, Professor Toi’s claim that time travel is conceivable is depicted in an ancient movie that Soichiro witnesses.
10th March 2025
After Soichiro entered Cold Sleep in 1995, Gota Tsuboi aids him in discovering that Taro Sato, who would later start Aladdin, was given the FWE stocks.
Also, Soichiro learns from the paperwork that he holds the patent for PETE-1, the first model, whereas Riko holds the patent for PETE-2.
Because it hasn’t happened to Soichiro yet, he is unable to recall any of this.
11th March 2025
Pete-bot and Soichiro are greeted by Professor Toi, who is standing by with a time machine. Toi reveals that Soichiro used time travel to make all of this possible. Toi hands Soichiro several gold bars, which have no value in 2025, and requests that Soichiro change them into cash in the past and send it to a younger Toi in order to support his time machine research. Toi also advises finishing the Plasma Battery design since the Time Machine depends on it. Toi uses time travel to bootstrap money for his own studies.
Soichiro is travelling across time with Pete-bot. I’ll call them Soichiro and Pete-bot from now on.
28th February 1995
A lawyer named Taro Sato, who happens to be driving by, stops Pete-bot and Soichiro. Pete-bot demonstrates that they are from the future by exposing that he is a robot powered by a Plasma Battery while Soichiro* is unconscious. He gives Taro Sato all the information.
Due to a horrible accident, Taro’s wife Midori, a former athlete, is now paralysed and has consequently grown socially isolated. Time travellers’ arrival resurrects her as her former self, and Taro decides to provide a hand as a result. Taro has already cashed the gold before Soichiro* wakes up and set up a room so that Soichiro* may finish his research and create PETE-1.
1st March 1995
Professor Toi meets Soichiro* in the Tsuboi Restaurant. He explains that he is a time traveller from 2025 and that his theory of time travel eventually succeeds. Toi receives the cash from Soichiro*.
At the restaurant, Soichiro* promises the young Gota Tsuboi that he will one day be a renowned inventor.
Soichiro* asks Taro to pursue Rin Shiraishi and expose Mannix Enterprises for tax fraud. He requests that Taro create a new firm and patent PETE-1 and the Plasma Battery (Aladdin). In exchange, Soichiro* offers Taro the presidency of Aladdin and shares in FWE.
Taro and Midori are also asked to adopt Riko by Soichiro*.
2nd – 7th March 1995
As he keeps a low profile, Soichiro* completes the Plasma Battery and his PETE-1 prototype.
8th March 1995
The FWE truck carrying Soichiro’s research is intercepted and taken by Pete-bot*.
When Soichiro* visits Kazuhito’s home, he witnesses Rin assaulting his former self. Pete-cat is taken by Soichiro*, who then drives off in his truck.
Soichiro* meets Riko at his house. Pete-bot* follows suit. After blowing up his home, Soichiro* departs with Riko and Pete-bot. Riko is informed by Soichiro that he is from the future and must return.
Pete-bot* suggests that Riko stay with him.
For the Cold Sleep appointment that Soichiro had made, Soichiro* travels to Credeus. Note that Soichiro* is currently at Credeus, and Rin is putting him into a cold sleep in a Mannix subsidiary under duress.
8th March 2025
When Soichiro* awakens in 2025, Pete-bot* welcomes him (Pete-cat was in Cold Sleep too). The humanoid who waited 30 years is called Pete-bot*. Take note that Soichiro, who is awakening for the first time from Cold Sleep somewhere, is just being introduced to another Pete-bot.
Soichiro* discovers from a letter written by Taro Sato that Riko eventually graduated and created the PETE-2 model. She entered Cold Sleep in 2005 in order to awaken and be with Soichiro. After settling the issue of their age gap, Soichiro meets Riko and starts a new life with her.
The Door Into Summer| The Rest Of The World’s View on the Plot
27th February 1995
Soichiro had no notion that the upcoming week will be the longest of his life since it is just another typical day.
28th February 1995
There are two Soichiros present: one (Soichiro*) has just arrived from the future and the other is a living innovator (Soichiro). Taro and his wife Midori are the only people who are aware of Soichiro and Pete-Bot (the time-travelling android).
1st March 1995
At home, Soichiro is watching the news on TV as it relates to him.
At the Tsuboi Restaurant, Soichiro* is giving Professor Toi money and encouraging Gota Tsuboi to become a great inventor in the future.
2nd – 7th March 1995
Working on the A-1 prototype, Soichiro is duped by Rin, who then wins control of a third of FWE.
At Taro’s residence, Soichiro* works on the PETE-1 and the Plasma Battery while also discussing the specifics of patenting with Taro.
8th March 1995
Kazuhito and Rin double-team Soichiro, leaving him unable to function in his own group. Two men steal his research from him in a vehicle, which Pete-bot* intercepts and steals.
Due to his high blood alcohol levels, Soichiro is asked to return the following day after becoming drunk and going to Credeus to choose Cold Sleep.
Soichiro goes to Kazuhito’s house to threaten Rin, but she manages to get the better of him. It should be noted that they haven’t heard from the corporate truck carrying the study materials yet, and we now know why.
After clawing Rin, Pete-cat takes off. While keeping an eye on everything from outside the home, Soichiro* picks up Pete-cat and drives off in his truck.
Riko and Soichiro are introduced, while Pete-bot follows them with the vehicle. Riko is informed by Soichiro* that he is not the man she met earlier in the day but rather a time traveller from the future after he blows up his home.
Riko will be adopted by Taro and his wife. Riko is joined by Pete-bot.
Rin places Soichiro in a Cold Sleep state at a Mannix subsidiary facility.
Pete-cat and Soichiro* attend Credeus’ Cold Sleep per Soichiro’s appointment.
Later in 1995
Mannix’s tax scam is revealed by Taro, and Rin is sentenced to jail.
Taro establishes Soichiro’s patents in a business he creates named Aladdin.
Due to a health issue brought on by his diabetes, Kazuhito becomes ill and passes away.
Riko returns to class.
1996 – 2004
Failure of Mannix.
As the sole shareholder still in the picture after Rin and Kazuhito’s departure, Taro sells FWE to Gota Tsuboi’s Guardian Manufacturing. Taro also gives Guardian permission to create robots using the PETE-1 and Plasma Battery concepts.
Riko eventually works at Guardian to develop the PETE-2 model, which is patented under her name. She also becomes interested in robotics.
Professor Toi constructs his time machine covertly.
2005
Riko falls asleep coldly.
2005 – 2024
Robots developed by Guardian Manufacturing become a reality and take over every sphere of civilization, including hospitals.
Pete-bot is a created robot that performs the duties of a nurse.
Soichoru* and Riko are in a Cold Sleep, and Taro, his wife, and Pete-bot* are waiting for them to awaken.
March 8, 2025
After 30 years at the Mannix subsidiary, Soichiro awakens and first encounters Pete-bot. The two meet Rin to find out about an enigmatic figure who eliminated Mannix and imprisoned her in 1995.
At Credeus, Soichiro* (and Pete-cat) awaken after 30 years (his second Cold Sleep) and meet Pete-bot*, who has been waiting for 30 years.
After spending 20 years at Credeus, Riko awakens and sees Soichiro* again. The two then begin a new life together.
9th March 2025
To find out more about Aladdin and Professor Toi from the past, Soichiro and Pete-bot encounter Gota Tsuboi.
At Taro’s house, Soichiro, Riko, and Pete-bot maintain a low profile because they don’t want to interfere with Soichiro and Pete-activities. bot’s
10th March 2025
Soichiro is assisted by Gota Tsuboi in discovering that Taro Sato was given the FWE stocks in 1995 after Soichiro entered Cold Sleep.
At Taro’s house, Soichiro, Riko, and Pete-bot maintain a low profile because they don’t want to interfere with Soichiro and Pete-activities. bot’s
11th March 2025
In order to meet Professor Toi, Soichiro and Pete-bot go back in time.
At Taro’s house, Soichiro, Riko, and Pete-bot maintain a low profile because they don’t want to interfere with Soichiro and Pete-activities. bot’s
12th March 2025
Pete-Bot, Riko, and Soichiro The idyllic family life of Taro and his wife can now resume.
You have it now! both viewpoints. What did you think of The Door Into Summer’s storyline and climax? Make sure to comment below.
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