Hibiki Shimada, a normal 17-year-old high-school student, still does not know how to fall in love—although surrounded by love "experts"—until one day she realizes she's fallen in love with her hot and nice 26-year-old teacher, Itō. She then takes a path to make her teacher understand how she feels for him.
Acting
Suzu Hirose's desperate, unhinged confession scene
Cinematography
Glowing sunset shots that romanticize the absolutely unromantic
Score
Piano strings that swell at morally questionable moments
Director
Takahiro Miki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a 2003 manga by Kazune Kawahara, who also wrote 'My Love Story!!' — she's oddly obsessed with impossible romances.
The 2017 release coincided with renewed Japanese debate about teacher-student relationships following several real-world scandals, making the film's soft treatment controversial.
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