
Close Range Love
2014 · Movie · 118 min · ★ 7.5
A bright high school student starts getting private English tutoring from a strict teacher, and their time together leads to complicated romantic feelings. It’s a school-set romance focused on attraction, boundaries, and emotional push and pull.
Based on Love's Reach
Also known as A Short Distance Relationship
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Details
- Original title
- 近キョリ恋愛
- Years
- 2014
- Release date
- 2014-10-11
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 118 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (114 votes)
About
If you enjoy school romances with a forbidden-love setup and a soft, dramatic tone like Say 'I Love You' or My Teacher, this may work for you; Not for you if teacher-student stories are a dealbreaker.
Pros: school romance tension; easy to follow; sweet emotional moments | Cons: teacher-student premise; familiar story beats; uneven relationship appeal
Themes
- based on manga
- older man younger woman relationship
- teacher student relationship
Cast & crew

Tomohisa Yamashita
as Haruka Sakurai

Nana Komatsu
as Yuni Kururugi

Asami Mizukawa
as Mirei Takizawa

Nozomu Kotaki
as Ryu Matoba

Mizuki Yamamoto
as Kikuko Nanami

Hirofumi Arai
as Kazuma Akechi

Kazuma Sano
as Saki Sato

Seika Furuhata
as Mei Yoshida
- KS
Kotone Shiina
as Student
Directed by Naoto Kumazawa