Amor à Curta Distância

I like these japanese romances, girls are feminine and people still take love and marriage seriously. In this case a (male) teacher and his student fall for each other and they obviously have to keep it secret. It's a little bit too long but otherwise it was okay.

This movie runs it theme in a very sensitive and delicate topic: child grooming and teacher-student romance. Fortunately this was made in Japan. If this was made in America, it would surely ignited chaos.

The plots saves this movie from condemnations. It cleverly navigated through sensitive issues and chose to focus on romantic relationship instead.

Nana Komatsu as Yuni Kururugi, played a believable troubled teenager. Viewers would definitely side with her from the start of the movie. Supporting casts also played very well, although not much screen time for their character development.

Decent 7/10.

Japanese adapted a lot of their manga stuff now. They did this from a long time ago so its totally not a trend or what, just the way it is in Japanese cinema. When some press ask Takeshi Kitano about this problem, its not really a problem actually but the problem is how the director handle it to make sure its become a great piece, he said, " Why? Because you can attract audiences, the movie companies don't have the courage to pay some unknown screenwriter, so they just have a lack of original screenwriters, and we have a lack of those resources. So long as you are in the commercial film industry, if you deem it a business, we have no other choice. So I hope that there will be a good movie that will buck that trend.". This is what he said, so the problem for most manga adaptation from my view is the duration, 90 minutes or 120 minutes is not nearly enough to summarize everything that happen in 10 volume of manga with around 50++ chapter and each chapter have about 30/40 pages. They need a really good screenwriter to pull off this job. So, if you've watch a lot romance manga adaptation or what the Japanese label as shojo. For example, L-DK, Kimi Ni Todoke, Ao Haru Ride, Ai Ore, High School Debut and a lot more. You can found this 5 phase which is the safe plan to not messed up in the storyline. First, the first meeting of the boy and a girl. Second, how is their love developing. Third, one of them fall in love and struggling to make the feeling become mutual. Fourth, some problem happen. Lastly, they will make up and the best cliché is they will kiss in the end, which is so fairy tale and really unrealistic. So, every one of this movie will have happy ending I guess. Its too bad they must hired beautiful young actor to do this job in order to satisfy their fan but unfortunately they cant act. So, what I can say is its okay to do manga adaptation because its sure can attract money and fan from all around the world but they must do it more carefully and greatly. If you still not understand please read "Dragonball" manga and then go watch its adaptation. Its easy that way.

Don't care about the trend. All you need to know... It tells a very sweet love story with a happy ending. You will see the most handsome man (don't like the hair style.) and the cutest girl in this movie. Why do we have to worry that the movie is far from the reality? This movie pulls you away from the reality for 2hours, sometimes it is the best thing about watching a movie. Have you ever watched the movie and imagined that you were some one in the movie? Well, I bet this one will help you a lot. Also, if there is a guy looks like Yamashita in the movie, Who will really care about the story line? Someone thinks he does not have enough expressions throughout the movie. I would say, you need to take a close look. His expression is good enough to tell where his heart is. Really enjoy Yamashita's in this movie. He did a great job!