Best Romantic Japanese Movies
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- DirectorShôsuke MurakamiStarsNao MinamisawaJunpei MizobataNaoki AbeA drama that follows the emotional and spiritual growth of teenage girl as she wrestles with love, family, and other matters.
- DirectorNorihiro KoizumiStarsYuiTakashi TsukamotoKuniko AsagiKaoru has a sickness that hindered her to go out when the sun is up. Despite this sickness, she fell in love with a boy named Koji. If she decides to pursue her love, it will mean risking her life.
- DirectorNatsuki ImaiStarsYui AragakiHaruma MiuraYûko AsanoMika is a fresh high school student who starts texting a mysterious boy. She is shocked when he reveals who he is - Hiro, a delinquent attending her school. What she doesn't know is that Hiro isn't as bad as he seems.
- DirectorNobuhiro DoiStarsYui AragakiTôma IkutaNichola GrantThis is a love story of a couple over the span of 10 years. Kouhei fell in love with Sae at first sight and soon they became a couple. But they had to part as Sae aims to go to a college in Tokyo while Kouhei is an aspiring fisherman.
- DirectorTakehiko ShinjôStarsMao InoueMasaki OkadaNatsuki HaradaTakuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves so that she can easily move on. What he didn't know is that he is under-estimating her.
- DirectorTakehiko ShinjôStarsAoi MiyazakiHiroshi TamakiMunetaka AokiA photographer named Makoto travels to New York during Christmas to look for his best friend, Shizuru. The two first met when Makoto attended his university entrance ceremony. Due to his inferiority complex, Makoto tends to shy away other people but Shizuru managed to make him open up to her. Because of their friendship, Shizuru also ended up taking an interest in photography and the two often went to the forest to take pictures. Shizuru wants nothing else but to be by Makoto's side, so when he started liking another girl called Miyuki , Shizuru decided that she too will like Miyuki and becomes her friend. One day , Makoto asked Shizuru what present she'd like to receive for her Birthday. Shizuru , who wants to enter a photography competition, had an idea to take a picture of the two of them kissing in a forest. Makoto agreed to do this and the two kissed for the very first time. After that day, however, Shizuru disappears from Makoto's life.
- DirectorRyûichi HirokiStarsAoi MiyazakiOsamu MukaiTatsuomi HamadaMovie adaptation of the Japanese novel "Kiroi Jou". A married couple Ayumu Muko (Mukai) and Aiko Tsumari (Miyazaki) live a peaceful life in a cozy old house in the countryside. Ayumu works as an unsuccessful novelist while Aiko is a happy but naive housewife. After a letter arrives for Ayumu their relationship grow distant and deteriorates.
- DirectorJae-young KwakStarsHaruka AyaseKeisuke KoideRisa AiA lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsSôta FukushiNana KomatsuMasahiro HigashideOn the way to his university in Kyoto, a 20 y.o. man falls in love with a woman on the train. He tells her. They start dating. She has a supernatural secret.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsTôma IkutaYuriko YoshitakaNarumi AkizukiNanami and Yano were in-love. But because of unavoidable circumstances, they cannot commit to their plans and promises. They can decided whether they want to live life as it is, or find a way back to each other's arms.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsTôma IkutaYuriko YoshitakaSôsuke TakaokaIt chronicles the love relationship between a boy called Motoharu Yano and a girl called Nanami Takahashi, starting from their teenage years and continuing during their early twenties.
- DirectorNaoto KumazawaStarsMikako TabeHaruma MiuraMisako RenbutsuA girl that resemble "Sadako" of the movie Ring is being feared by her classmates. She is avoided by everyone.While everyone is avoiding her, the popular boy Shota Kazehaya befriends her, and their love begins to grow.
- DirectorTsutomu HanabusaStarsMirei KiritaniKento YamazakiKentarô SakaguchiHatori is in love with her childhood friend Rita, but when Rita gets himself a girlfriend Hatoris world turns upside down.
- CreatorIo SakisakaStarsYûki KajiAi KayanoTsubasa HondaRevolves around Futaba, a girl who was in love with a boy named Ko Tanaka in middle school. However, it did not work because he transferred but in high school, her world is turned around once again when she meets him again.
- DirectorTaisuke KawamuraStarsKento YamazakiRen KiriyamaMiho ShiraishiAoi lives in an apartment by herself. Shusei moves in next to Aoi's apartment. Shusei is a very popular student. Due to a mistake, Aoi makes the sprinkler go off in his room. Until his room is fixed, he stays with Aoi.
- DirectorAsako HyugaStarsHaruna KawaguchiSôta FukushiNanami AbeAbout one gloomy girl named Mei who injures the most popular male student named Yamato. Somehow, Yamato likes Mei and one day, Yamato saves Mei from a stalker by kissing her. From that kiss, their love story begins.
- DirectorRyûichi HirokiStarsKasumi ArimuraSôta FukushiYuki YamadaNinako confesses her love to Ren. But get rejected because he is already have a girlfriend. They promise to stay as a friend. Some other guy confess their love to her but she rejects them. Is it because she still wants to be with Ren?
- DirectorNaoto KumazawaStarsTomohisa YamashitaNana KomatsuMika AkizukiA smart high school student falls in love with her new handsome English teacher after she begins to receive one-on-one tutoring from him.
- DirectorHayato KawaiShô TsukikawaStarsNana KomatsuYûdai ChibaRimo HasegawaYu believes that she's in-love with the White Prince "Shirakawa". But every encounter with the abusive Black Devil "Kurosaki" who she hates, she gets one step closer to loving him.
- DirectorNorihiro KoizumiStarsTakeru SatohMasataka KubotaRyô YoshizawaA love story between a famous 25-year-old songwriter, who keeps his identity hidden from the public, and a 16-year-old high school student who possesses a gifted voice.
- DirectorTakeshi FurusawaStarsKento YamazakiFumino KimuraEmi TakeiHibino, a geek girl fall in love for the first time with Kyouta, the playboy. What will happen when a zero experience girl coupled with a lot of experienced boy? Love for beginner begin.
- DirectorTakehiko ShinjôStarsKeiko KitagawaOsamu MukaiShunji IgarashiA chance encounter leads Yukari, a burnt out high school student, to a group of dedicated fashion design students. She becomes their model for their graduating exhibition and discovers her talent for modeling.
- DirectorTsutomu HanabusaStarsJunpei MizobataIto OnoMasaki SudaHaruna who devoted herself to softball decide to find a boyfriend in high school by instruction from Yoh, who is willingly to teach her how to get a boyfriend but with only one condition, don't fall in love with him at all.
- DirectorKentarô OhtaniStarsYumi EndôImaluMasaki KajiTransfer student Biito Mizorogi, talented in fashion design, brings classmates together to stage a fashion show for the school's annual festival.
- DirectorKitaji IshikawaStarsEma FujisawaTeppei KoikeShôsuke TaniharaRisa Koizumi an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests.