Daytime Shooting Star

Daytime Shooting Star

2017 · 119 min · JA · 7.6 (73 votes)
Dir. Takehiko Shinjo · Starring Mei Nagano, Shohei Miura, Alan Shirahama, Maika Yamamoto, Ryuta Sato, Naomi Nishida · Music Takefumi Haketa
Romance

Fifteen-year-old country girl Suzume Yosano has to move to Tokyo to live with her uncle due to her father's transfer. She bumps into a mysterious man who ends up taking her to her uncle's place after she gets lost. Turns out, Suzume will be seeing him a lot more often once she starts school because... he's her homeroom teacher?!

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A tender, yet fraught exploration of burgeoning, forbidden feelings. It captures the awkwardness and intense yearning of first love, set against a backdrop of quiet introspection and the bittersweet ache of growing up too fast.

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