Kimi ni todoke

A little bit disappointed that I just found out about this movie in 2024. Omg heart melts with the lead actor. He is too perfect for what I want in a man in reality. A man with an attractive smile and a funny guy. In addition to being a gentleman, he is also galant. He doesn't be shy of protect the girl he loves in front of a crowd. And show his love to her, even though he is famous and she is the one that people get away from.

After seeing it for the first time, I watched it several times in the following days and beyond. I have a crush on him, the perfect man.

A little bit confused with a girl, but her kindness and sympathy are good qualities to skip over the others. Must watch live action movie for the genre of school romance movies.

I was curious to see what the live action movie would look like. They did a wonderful job casting several of the roles. In the anime, they have the ability to really handle the raw emotions of being excluded or picked on. In the live action, they count on you just being smart enough to fill in the gaps. We of course do and it works but the emotions are much more powerful in the anime.

It's the first anime that's made me tear up and the movie did it to me also. If you like the anime, I recommend the movie. If you've never seen the anime, I still recommend the movie and I highly recommend the anime.

There is a manga that goes a bit further than both the movie and the anime...just FYI...

Based on a comic of the same title by Karuho Shiina, "Kimi ni todoke" is a movie adaptation done well, and acted superbly by the cast.

The story is a play on the movie "Ring". A girl that resemble "Sadako" of the movie Ring is being feared by her classmates. Rumored to become cursed if she looks at you, she is avoided like the real Sadako by her classmates. The girl's real name is Sawako Kuronuma (Mikako Tabe), and she's really a nice girl. While everyone is avoiding her, Shota Kazahaya (Haruma Miura) befriends her, and her popularity begins to grow. She also gets two friends Ayane Yano (Natsuna), and Chizuru Yoshida (Misako Renbutsu) who befriends her. There's a strong friendship between the four of them, and the story revolves around the four of them, their romance, and their friendship. Shota loves Sawako, and he confesses his love to her. Sawako slowly starts to accept the fact that she is worthy of Shota's love, and starts to become active part of his life.

The story is superb in describing the intricacies of friendship, and romance of the cast and characters. Each scene highlights the emotions of the characters involved, and how they are maturing in their life.

The performance of the cast is fantastic. They really carry the story with their acting, charm, and presence.

Without a question, this is one of the best teen based movie to come out of Japan in the past 10 years. It's a delight to watch, with characters that you can identify with.

Watching the first 2 episodes of this would bring anyone to tears. You really feel bad for her. The actress that played sawako is very good and convincing. You almost feel like it actually happened. A popular boy later befriends her and gets her to open up and they eventually fall in love. The rest of the cast was very good as well. Her two friends who befriended her and later told her when she was trying to stay away from them that she was not causing them any problems. This was due to a rumor that was started by a jealous girl who in the end becomes her friend as well. The ending was full of too many holes and loose ends that weren't tied. You only saw sawako coming back to shota. What happened to Ryu. Did he not come back to the other girl and what about Ayane did she not come back from overseas. This was not a netflix original as this was just shown on netflix and the date of release was 2010. Can they rectify this? Yes they can make a movie to tie up all of the loose ends and show how the others fared. Had that been addressed during this series I would have rated it a 10.

The basic premise that this girl reminds everybody of the creepy chick from The Ring and this is why everybody in her class is afraid of her and treats her like a ghost is kind of dumb and not believable. The timid girl type is a japanese classic but it's quite overdone here to the point where it's not longer cute but tedious. Like, girl can you say one straight sentence without hesitating at every single word while looking a the floor? The drama is very trivial, basically stupid school girl problems like other girls being catty b-words and such, but there are still some nice moments and the romance part is okay. It's not a bad movie, but it doesn't really stand out either.