Nine: 9 Times Time Travel – I Just Need to Go Back 20 Years

“Nine: 9 Times Time Travel” is a 2013 series with 20 episodes, categorized as Time Travel, Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, and Sci-Fi (science fiction), streaming free on Tubi TV with ads.

SUMMARY: My brother died believed nine incense sticks could turn back time and make our family happy again. Is that possible?

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In “Nine: 9 Times Time Travel”, Park Jung-Woo took a trip to the Himalayas in Nepal. He told his younger brother, Park Sun-Woo, that he couldn’t explain all of his reasons, but he had to make this trip. There was once a time when their family was happy. He, his younger brother, and their mother and father lived a wonderful life. But their happiness was destroyed and he believed he could go back to the way they were. Park Jung-Woo promised his younger brother that once he returned he would tell him. Sadly, he died on the mountain.

If it weren’t for a photograph they had taken together before he left, the police would have had difficulty identifying him. By the time they found his dead body, he had begun to decompose. The photo was in Park Jung-Woo’s jacket. The police recognized Park Sun-Woo because he is a well-known TV anchorman in South Korea. He was contacted because the authorities needed someone to identify the body and collect his belongings. Forensics had also taken photographs of where he was found and how he was found. His brother died clutching an incense stick. Park Jung-Woo was completely bewildered.

Searching through Park Jung-Woo’s belongings, he started piecing together clues as to his brother’s final moments. His brother promised to explain everything, but now he would have to figure it out on his own. There must be something about that incense stick. He experimented by lighting the stick and suddenly found himself several years in the past, in his childhood home. He recognized his mother but she did not recognize him and screamed believing him to be an intruder.

His brother came running into the room to defend their home and in the process, Park Sun-Woo was injured. However, in an instant, he was back in his apartment. Park Sun-Woo was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He thought he had been hallucinating because his doctor told him that might happen. But how could he be injured if he was hallucinating? He was traveling back in time.

Park Sun-Woo’s brother had written in his notes that years ago a man had left nine (9) incense sticks at a lodge in the Himalayas. His brother was trying to go back in time and get them but he died. Park Sun-Woo decided that maybe he could succeed even though his brother had failed. He used the incense stick his brother had died holding and traveled back to the time and place where the man had left the nine incense sticks and was able to retrieve them.

• But now that they were in his possession, could he really use them to travel 20 years into the past?

• Would he really be able to prevent the tragedies that destroyed his family’s happiness?

Main Characters:

• Park Sun-Woo (played by Lee Jin-Uk, “Squid Game 2”, “Dear Hyeri”, “Voice 2 and 3”, “The Three Musketeers”)
• Joo Min-Young (played by Jo Yoon-Hee, “The Escape of the Seven 1 and 2”, “The King’s Face”, “The Magician”)
• Park Jung-Woo (played by Jeon No-Min, “Durian’s Affair”, “Love ft. Marriage & Divorce 1, 2 and 3”, “Bridal Mask”)
• Choi Jin-Cheol (played by Jeong Dong-Hwan, “12.12: The Day”, “Svaha: The Sixth Finger”, “When The Phone Rings”, “The Fiery Priest”)
• Park Sun-Woo in 1992 (played by Park Hyung-Sik, “Juror 8”, “Doctor Slump”, “Our Blooming Youth”, “Happiness”, “Hwarang”)

Where to Watch

Viewership and Rating:

• IMDb: 8 out of 10 stars
• My Drama List: 8.3 out of 10 stars

My personal rating is the same as My Drama List.

“Nine: 9 Times Time Travel” gets 10 out of 10 stars for the beautiful scenery in the Himalayas in Nepal. The idea of using incense sticks like a time travel machine? Bravo!!

LINKS OF INTEREST:

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TRAILER/TEASER:

Ani-Hongo. “Nine: 9 Times Time Travel (2013) – Trailer.” YouTube, Video, 14 Dec. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InXML21z47I.

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