Close Range Love

Yuni does well in every subject at school except English. Sakurai, the new English teacher, is handsome and brutally blunt with the students; Yuni starts taking private lessons and what is between them soon stops being lessons. Naoto Kumazawa adapted Rin Mikimoto's manga. The story follows the template of Japanese youth romance, though the teacher's past and the reason he left his previous school change it in the second half. Tomohisa Yamashita and Nana Komatsu star. It opened at number one in Japan and returned to the top a week later. Its subject, a relationship between a teacher and a student, stands as more contentious now. Who it is for: viewers who like Japanese youth romance and manga adaptations. Who it is not for: anyone troubled by a teacher and student relationship being romanticised.