There's a film just out a couple of weeks ago called "Bubble e Go!!" which is a story about how a team try to use a time machine - which is a washing machine - to stop the Japanese bubble from bursting. This from an old Reuter's report:
"...In the comedy, due to open in Japan next month, the country is left with 713 days and 13 hours before a public debt crisis triggers an economic meltdown. As the clock is ticking away, bureaucrat Isao Shimokawaji sends a nubile bar hostess -- eager to unload some debts of her own -- back in time to talk government officials out of their ill-fated policies and prevent the 1990 bursting of the bubble. She eventually succeeds and erases from history the decade-long economic slump that dragged the country deep into debt. Along the way, she is helped by geishas, a feisty television reporter and Shimokawaji himself, who in 1990 scoffs at the idea that property and stock prices will go anywhere but up..."
Sounds like good concept although I suspect everyone hams it up as usual and turns into something forgettable.
