Han Zhao I have to say that I am disappointed. The girl had short hair and looked like a boy as a result. Thank goodness for her legs. It made the film better especially when she is out shopping and you feel she is a woman and is worth looking at. I was more interested in the new teacher and the girl's fellow student Nami Chain than I was in the short hair student.The subject of student and teacher love is not so taboo anymore, her it happens and is natural among humans, but why would the man choose the student over the much cooler and prettier new teacher? or at least pick nami Chan that would be more natural.Still, if you are interested in taboo love that society has forbidden this is a good film. It also makes a good point. A student may be a book worm and a nerd, but she still has feelings and needs love and sex. DVD is on sale at buy.com where we got it from or look at yesasia which is usually reliable.

phoenix 2 Okay, it wasn't THAT bad, but it still was too mainstream for me. Sure, I love a good romance, but even so the story had so many potentials to develop and get a good twist here and there, however that never happened. Maybe the fact that the love story was a bit weak or that the chemistry between the couple was so-so, bored me. I mean, when did the teacher fell for her? Shouldn't they have shown us at least that? He can't just steal her away and propose to her out of the blue! Anyway, like I said, the story had potential. Clearly the girl had some issues, as she kept touching her ear every time she talked to someone or she feasted her hand when she was nervous (or ate donuts when she was sad). If only the film had made the effort to explore the girl's mental world better and not focus only on the relationship, maybe then the movie would have some depth and would have been more interesting. Finally, what I liked about this movie: the performances were okay and the way her cousin handled things were interesting. So, 3 out of 10.

karluk99 Yuni Kururugi is a smart and pretty high school student, who is doing well in all of her classes except English. In an attempt to improve her grades her English teacher, Haruka Sakurai, asks Yuni to attend regular after school tutoring sessions. Although she initially resents Mr. Sakurai, she rather quickly develops feelings for him, most notably when he rescues her from bullies who attack her because of jealousy over the extra attention Yuni is getting from the handsome teacher.At this point the movie has to make a choice between being a realistic story of an influential teacher pushing a bright student to be her best, or diverging into a fantasy world in which an innocent schoolgirl inspires Mr. Sakurai with the most noble and self-sacrificing love that any teenage girl could wish for. In this case fantasy wins, and we spend the rest of the movie seeing how the love between this couple is just so perfect and right that all of the normal objections to a romance between teacher and student simply don't apply.Given the fact that the movie is sheer fantasy, I find the scene where Mr. Sakurai kisses Yuni while she is hiding in the bottom of his lectern to be quite endearing. Sure, in real life it would be impossible for this to happen in front of the entire class without anybody noticing, but as a fantasy I can sympathize with wanting one's first kiss to be a memorable one, and this scene is nothing if not memorable.Close Range Love is surprisingly aware of how many legitimate objections there are to a teacher falling in love with a student, but of course none of them apply to Yuni and Mr. Sakurai. He never makes any physical demands on her, so their displays of affection are limited to a few stray hugs and kisses. Adolescents are typically need time to find their place in life, and sure enough, Mr. Sakurai selflessly pretends to break up with Yuni so she has no reason not to pursue her dream of studying abroad. Yuni is devastated by the break up, but is smart enough to figure out later that Mr. Sakurai did it for her and really is still in love with her.The acting left a lot to be desired, but this is most likely the result of the source material being a manga. Yuni's emotions are always portrayed by quirky mannerisms - touching her ear lobe, eating doughnuts, clutching her skirt in her fist, stroking her cat pin jewelry - so the lack of visible emotion in her face is probably intentional.All in all, I felt a 5/10 rating was fair. Close Range Love doesn't have a lot of appeal except to people looking for an escapist teenage romance fantasy, but as an escapist teenage romance fantasy it does a decent job.

fluffset 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.