Love for Beginners

Love for Beginners

2012 · 121 min · JA · 7.2 (39 votes)
Dir. Takeshi Furusawa · Starring Emi Takei, Tori Matsuzaka, Fumino Kimura, Sho Aoyagi, Kento Yamazaki, Yua Shinkawa
RomanceComedy

Hibino Tsubaki is a young teenage girl with a talent for styling other people's hair. Yet, Tsubaki suffers from low self-esteem and isn't very comfortable styling her own hair. She also has a tendency to dress old-fashioned. She's teased at high school because of this. One day, popular male student Tsubaki Kyota targets Tsubaki for teasing. Tsubaki Kyota holds sway over the entire classroom and is quite a playboy. Inexplicably they fall in love. Meanwhile, Tsubaki Kyota has commitment issues...

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A sweet and earnest teen romance that captures the awkwardness of first love and the journey to self-acceptance. It feels like a cozy, lighthearted escape into high school crushes and personal growth.

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