Love Me, Love Me Not / Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare (2020)
Drama | Romance | Teen
The love affairs of four schoolkids: a romantic, a pragmatist, an airhead and a lothario.
Starring: Minami Hamabe, Takumi Kitamura, Riko Fukumoto, Eiji Akaso
Director: Takahiro Miki
Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy / Hotto Gimikku: Gâru Mîtsu Bôi (2019)
Drama | Romance | Teen
Hatsumi and her family live normal lives until she is used by Ryoki who begins to bully and intimidate her. Azusa is a friend in the area and also good looking. He has the hots for Hatsumi too. They begin to go steady, but soon it transpires that not everything as easy or straightforward. Time to unravel the mystery.
Starring: Miona Hori, Hiroya Shimizu, Mizuki Itagaki, Shôtarô Mamiya, Hiyori Sakurada, Kaisei Kamimura, Riho Yoshioka
Director: Yûki Yamato
Daytime Shooting Star / Hirunaka no ryuusei (2017)
Romance | Teen
Suzume Yosano's parents have decided to move to Bangladesh when her father's job gets transferred there. However, they're not taking her with them. So, Suzume moves to Tokyo to live with her uncle, Yukichi. On her way to moving into her uncle's house, she runs into a strange man who helps her since she is initially lost. When she starts school, it turns out that he is none other than her homeroom teacher, Satsuki Shishio. Between him and making new friends, Suzume's first year of high school in Tokyo will be full of fun and adventure.
Starring: Mei Nagano, Shôhei Miura, Alan Shirahama, Maika Yamamoto, Ryûta Satô, Akira Onodera
Director: Takehiko Shinjo
The Flowers of Evil (2019)
Drama | Romance | Teen | Thriller
A college student steals the panties of a girl he likes and gets witnessed, which sets off a chain of events that send his life and the lives of others around him out of control.
Starring: Kentarô Itô, Tina Tamashiro, Marie Iitoyo, Shiori Akita
Director: Noboru Iguchi
L-DK: Two Loves, Under One Roof / L-DK Hitotsu Yane no Shita, (Suki) ga Futatsu (2019)
Romance | Teen
Aoi Nishimori and Shusei Kugayama are in love and they begin to live together secretly. Suddenly, Shusei's cousin Reon Kugayama comes to them. Their secret is discovered by Reon. Now, Aoi, Shusei and Reon begin to live together.
Starring: Mone Kamishiraishi, Yôsuke Sugino, Ryûsei Yokohama, Keita Machida, Shiori Akita
Director: Yasuhiro Kawamura
School-Live! / Gakkô-gurashi! (2019)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Teen
Ebisuzawa, Yuki, Mike and Yuri attend the same high school in Japan, but they also know one another because they reside in the school's dormitory. The schoolgirls are fun and having fun until alas a virus rears its ugly head, infects the school population and produces – zombie students, which soon are everywhere and everyone and surround and corner the four friends. They have to defend themselves now.
Starring: Nanami Abe, Midori Nagatsuki, Wakana Majima, Rio Kiyohara, Nonoka Ono, Daichi Kaneko
Director: Issei Shibata
You Are the Apple of My Eye / Those Years, We Went After You / Ano koro, kimi wo oikaketa (2018)
Comedy | Romance | Teen
In Japan in the early 2000s Kosuke Mizushima is a popular yet childish high school student living a comfortable life. He wants to start a relationship with his classmate, but she's a serious honors student.
Starring: Yûki Yamada, Asuka Saitô, Honoka Matsumoto, Takara Sakumoto, Naoki Kunishima, Keisuke Nakata, Ryosuke Yusa
Director: Yasuo Hasegawa
We Love / You, I Love / Ui Rabu (2018)
Romance | Teen
The romantic escapades of a group of high school students.
Starring: Hinako Sakurai, Shô Hirano, Tina Tamashiro, Hayato Isomura, Hiyori Sakurada, Kentarô Itô
Director: Yûichi Satô
Anoko no, Toriko (2018)
Comedy | Romance | Teen
The movie centers on three childhood friends in a love triangle. Yori moved back to the countryside, and started wearing glasses and not being noticed by girls. Meanwhile, Shizuku entered the entertainment industry alongside Subaru, and both began working as a model and actor, respectively. But when Yori turns 16, he re-enters their lives.
Starring: Ryô Yoshizawa, Yûko Araki, Yôsuke Sugino
Director: Ryô Miyawaki
Waiting for Spring / We Hope for A Blooming / Harumatsu Bokura (2018)
Family | Romance | Sport | Teen
Mitsuki is shy and rather isolated at school. Towa is on the basketball team and Mitsuki's class-mate. Due to circumstances, Mitsuki soon begins to socialize with four jocks of the basketball team, which affects her self-esteem, her social status, her loneliness and her life. She finds a new lease in her school life.
Starring: Tao Tsuchiya, Takumi Kitamura, Yûta Koseki, Hayato Isomura, Yôsuke Sugino, Yû Inaba, Rika Izumi
Director: Yûichirô Hirakawa
Shino Cannot Say Her Own Name / Shino-chan wa Jibun no Namae ga Ienai (2018)
Dram | Family | Teen
Following the manga source material high school girl Ooshima Shino has a speech impediment and, as such, enjoys a lack of friends and general awkwardness. Shino soon meets Kayo who is tone-deaf despite her love of music and song. None of it is a show-stopper. They decide to found a music group, which changes them both.
Starring: Sara Minami, Aju Makita, Riku Hagiwara, Kinuo Yamada, Kaoru Okunuki
Director: Hiroaki Yuasa
Real Girl / 3D Kanojo Real Girl (2018)
Comedy | Romance | Teen
Hikaru Tsutsui is a high school student. He enjoys animation and video games in the virtual world, but he doesn't enjoy his real life. People at his school don't even know he exists. One day, he cleans up the pool at his school with beautiful Iroha Ikarashi. Iroha approaches Hikaru and confesses that she likes him.
Starring: Ayami Nakajô, Hayato Sano, Hiroya Shimizu, Moka Kamishiraishi, Yuri Tsunematsu, Yutaro Goto, Takahiro Miura, Mari Hamada, Sayaka Kanda, Riki Takeuchi
Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa
My Little Monster / Tonari no kaibutsu-kun (2018)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Teen
Haru Yoshida is a high school student. He is viewed as a problem child with an unpredictable behavior. He also doesn't have any friends. Shizuku Mizutani is a high school student who studies too much. She is cold and doesn't have any friends. Haru Yoshida and Shizuku Mizutani sit next to each other in a classroom. A small thing causes Haru Yoshida to have feelings for Shizuku Mizutani. He confesses to her about how he feels.
Starring: Masaki Suda, Tao Tsuchiya, Yûki Furukawa, Yûki Yamada, Elaiza Ikeda, Minami Hamabe, Gaku Sano, Mokomichi Hayami
Director: Shô Tsukikawa
Marmalade Boy / Mamarêdo bôi (2018)
Romance | Teen
Two sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.
Starring: Hinako Sakurai, Ryô Yoshizawa
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
River's Edge / Ribâzu ejji (2018)
Crime | Teen
Haruna is a high school student whose, school-mates, school and life is topsy turvy and often tragic. One of her classmates is the homosexual Ichiro. The boy is often bullied, derided and beaten. He has the scars to show for it. Haruna stands by Ichiro's side and comes to know Ichiro's secret. Then they discover a corpse by a river beside the tall grass.
Starring: Fumi Nikaidô, Ryô Yoshizawa, Aoi Morikawa, Shûhei Uesugi, Sumire, Shiori Doi
Director: Isao Yukisada
Teen Bride / Miseinen dakedo kodomo janai (2017)
Comedy | Teen
On Karin Oriyama's 16th birthday, she receives a present from her parents. Her present is marriage. The person she marries is her first love Nao Tsurugi. He is a popular senior in high school. For Nao, he only marries Karin for economic reasons and in particular the wealth of her parents. Karin loves him truly, but Nao doesn't love her at all. Their marriage is a secret, but Isuzu Ebina, who holds feelings for Karin, learns of their marriage.
Starring: Kento Nakajima, Yûna Taira, Yuri Chinen
Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa
Anonymous Noise / Fukumen-kei Noise (2017)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance | Teen
A girl who loves to sing, Nino Arisugawa experiences her first heart-wrenching goodbye when her beloved childhood friend, Momo, moves away. And after Nino befriends Yuzu, a music composer, she experiences another sad parting. With music as their common ground and only outlet, how will unrequited love play out? Since both boys promised Nino that they will find her one day through her singing, she holds on to that hope and continues to reach out with her voice. Now in high school, Nino serendipitously reunites with Yuzu, but she yearns to see Momo again.
Starring: Ayami Nakajô, Jun Shison, Yûta Koseki
Director: Kôichirô Miki
Asahinagu (2017)
Comedy | Sport | Teen
Asahi Tojima is a first grade high school student. She is small and weak physically. Asahi Tojima decides to change herself. She enrolls in the naginata club at her school. She works hard with the other club members and targets the national competition.
Starring: Nanase Nishino, Reika Sakurai, Sayuri Matsumura, Mai Shiraishi, Marika Itô
Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa
Fireworks / Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or The Bottom? / Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miru ka? Yoko kara miru ka? (2017)
Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance | Teen
School children Norimichi, Yûsuke and Jun'ichi want to know if fireworks look round or flat from the side. They make a plan to find the answer at a fireworks display, while Nazuna schemes to run away with Norimichi or Yûsuke, whoever wins at the pool.
Starring: Suzu Hirose, Masaki Suda, Mamoru Miyano, Takako Matsu, Kana Hanazawa, Shintarô Asanuma
Director: Akiyuki Shimbô, Nobuyuki Takeuchi
The Anthem of the Heart / Kokoro ga sakebitagatterunda (2017)
Drama | Teen
Takumi Sakagami is a high school student who is poor with social interaction. He is appointed to the Regional Friendship Exchange Executive Committee by his teacher. Jun Naruse is also appointed to the same executive committee. Due to a trauma in her past, if she talks to others, she gets stomach pains. Thus, she doesn't talk or hang out with others in class. Takumi and Jun hesitate, but they attempt to prepare for a musical that will be performed at the region exchange meeting.
Starring: Kento Nakajima, Kyôko Yoshine, Anna Ishii, Kan'ichirô Satô, Nene Ohtsuka, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
Director: Naoto Kumazawa
