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This film is adapted from the anime series about five art school students who navigate the emotional peaks and valleys of university life. Three male students all live in the same apartment building, and, when two of them fall for the same girl, their friendship is tested. Both Takemoto (Shô Sakurai) and Morita (Yusuke Iseya) long for Hagu (Yû Aoi), a new student at the school. Takemoto attempts to play it cool, while Morita tries a bit too hard to get her attention.

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Honey & Clover | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Maureen M. Hart Chicago Tribune Sho Sakurai is the Michael Cera of Japan as the lovestruck hero of Honey and Clover, directed by Masahiro Takasa from the popular Japanese comic by Chica Umino. Rated: 3/4 Feb 15, 2008 Full Review Honey & Clover | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Sean Axmaker Seattle Post-Intelligencer The gentle conflicts and easy rhythms and small triumphs over personal adversity are low-key almost to a fault... Rated: B+ Jan 11, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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James B while in many ways this is a fairly standard coming of age film, it rises above comparative american fare by simply being. there's no trickery, no contrivances (meaningful ones, anyways) - it's isolation, despair, restraint... it's being a young person in modern japan. and it's busting out of that. it's nothing amazing, but it succeeds. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/06/08 Full Review Audience Member Honey and Clover (2006): "It doesn't suit you to look so happy." - AyumiThe relationship between two college friends is complicated by the arrival of Hagumi Hanamoto, a beautiful and talented freshman girl related to their art professor.This live-action story of love is based on the shojo manga series by Chika Umino and the subsequent anime. Emotionally heavy, the dialogue is loaded with pauses filled with ache and longing, but the characters are likable and there are moments where I got lost in the story. The acting gave me insight into Japanese culture. Let me explain:I stopped in the middle of watching the movie in order to make sure I got to the Sage Port Grille before the lunch crowd. While I was waiting for breakfast, I was reading an article about Hiroyuki Nishimura, the popular coder who is the creative genius behind Nicodou - a web video service that allows users to plaster their comments directly on to a video (Nicodou is a mash-up of a You Tube video service and 2channel, a free-for-all, unsupervised text posting service).Nishimura is not your typical Japanese: he's irresponsible, a bit of a rebel and very popular with the young crowd. The Japanese are not accustomed to saying what's on their minds. They tend to internalize their feelings and opinions, and walk the straight and narrow. That's why 2channel and Nicodou are such a phenomenon - kids get on the site and under the cover of anonymity, they say what's on their minds.Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons comments, "Japan is an unhappy culture. The people are lonely and depressed, and the Internet is a release valve." Although Honey and Clover had little to do with the Internet, it made a case for "art" as another form of that release. I think it helped explain why manga and anime are also such a huge phenomenon.And I'm guessing that Nishimura has to work at maintaining his counter-culture presence. Good thing he's up to the challenge. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Masahiro Takada Director Shô Sakurai Takemoto Yû Aoi Hagu Yusuke Iseya Morita Ryô Kase Mayama Megumi Seki Ayumi
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Synopsis This film is adapted from the anime series about five art school students who navigate the emotional peaks and valleys of university life. Three male students all live in the same apartment building, and, when two of them fall for the same girl, their friendship is tested. Both Takemoto (Shô Sakurai) and Morita (Yusuke Iseya) long for Hagu (Yû Aoi), a new student at the school. Takemoto attempts to play it cool, while Morita tries a bit too hard to get her attention.

Director
Masahiro Takada

Producer
Shinji Ogawa

Screenwriter
Masahiko Kawahara, Chika Umino

Production Co
Asmik Ace Entertainment

Genre
Romance, Drama

Original Language
Japanese

Release Date (DVD)
May 13, 2008

Runtime
1h 57m
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