Top 45 Asian Teen/High School
by transitasis | created - 16 Jun 2015 | updated - 10 Feb 2021 | PublicHigh School Asian Setting.
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1. Kids Return (1996)
107 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Dropping out of high school, two friends at first find success, one as a up-and-coming boxer and one as a low level gangster. Yet, their life decisions still find a way of catching up with them.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Ken Kaneko, Masanobu Andô, Leo Morimoto, Hatsuo Yamaya
Votes: 6,773
2. Better Days (2019)
135 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
While she copes the the pressures of her final examinations, a bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants.
Director: Derek Tsang | Stars: Dongyu Zhou, Jackson Yee, Fang Yin, Ye Zhou
Votes: 13,139
3. Himizu (2011)
129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Votes: 4,711
4. Battle Royale (2000)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama
Votes: 194,502
5. Linda Linda Linda (2005)
TV-PG | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita | Stars: Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yû Kashii, Shiori Sekine
Votes: 4,492
6. Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A group of over-achieving East Asian American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extracurricular criminal activities.
Director: Justin Lin | Stars: Parry Shen, Jason Tobin, Sung Kang, Shirley Anderson
Votes: 10,456 | Gross: $3.80M
7. Sunny (2011)
PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama
Seven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time.
Director: Kang Hyeong-cheol | Stars: Yoo Ho-jeong, Shim Eun-kyung, Jin Hee-kyung, Kim Min-yeong
Votes: 6,558
8. My Girl and I (2005)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Beautiful student Su-Eun prevents her fellow student Su-Ho to drown in the ocean. Su-Ho however, does not know who saved him, until Su-Eun tells him after a while. The love between them ... See full summary »
Director: Yun-su Jeon | Stars: Cha Tae-hyun, Song Hye-kyo, Song Chang-ui, Moon Jeong-Hee
Votes: 2,737
9. Hana and Alice (2004)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Anne Suzuki, Yû Aoi, Tomohiro Kaku, Sei Hiraizumi
Votes: 4,911
10. Love & Pop (1998)
110 min | Drama
A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.
Director: Hideaki Anno | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Hayashibara, Akira Ishida
Votes: 1,871
11. You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Shen Jiayi. The only member of the group who claims not to is Ke Jingteng, but he ends up loving her as well.
Director: Giddens Ko | Stars: Kai Ko, Michelle Chen, Shao-Wen Hao, Owodog
Votes: 11,588
12. Moonlight Whispers (1999)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
Two seemingly innocent school kids are obsessed in fetishistic s&m games.
Director: Akihiko Shiota | Stars: Kenji Mizuhashi, Tsugumi, Kôta Kusano, Harumi Inoue
Votes: 982
13. Ao no hono-o (2003)
116 min | Drama, Crime, Romance
A 17 y.o. Japanese secondary school student is living happily with his mom and sister but one day his stepdad returns, drunk much of the time and cruel to his mom and sister. Is there such a thing as the perfect murder?
Director: Yukio Ninagawa | Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya, Aya Matsuura, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Kansai Yamamoto
Votes: 1,037
14. Swing Girls (2004)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up vitiating and replacing the schools brass band.
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Juri Ueno, Yûta Hiraoka, Shihori Kanjiya, Yuika Motokariya
Votes: 4,684
15. The Kirishima Thing (2012)
103 min | Drama
A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how this affects every person in his school.
Director: Daihachi Yoshida | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Ai Hashimoto, Suzuka Ohgo, Masahiro Higashide
Votes: 2,623
16. Shady (2012)
94 min | Horror, Thriller
Because of her last name "Kumada" (bear + rice paddy) and her appearance, Misa's high school classmates call her "Pooh" disparagingly. She obviously has no friends and can only let down her... See full summary »
Director: Ryôhei Watanabe | Stars: Hiroki Horikawa, Gôta Ishida, Jûzô Kakei, Mimpib
Votes: 286
17. I Like (2005)
104 min | Drama, Romance
A high school student named Yu has a crush on one of her classmates, Yosuke. The boy spends most of his time sitting outside and playing his guitar, and Yu sits nearby and listens. One day,... See full summary »
Director: Hiroshi Ishikawa | Stars: Aoi Miyazaki, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Hiromi Nagasaku, Eita Nagayama
Votes: 1,207
18. Starry Starry Night (2011)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy
12-year-old Mei grew up with her grandparents in the mountains, but now lives with her parents in the city. Her parents constantly fight and she ignored at home. Mei withdraws into her own world and imagination.
Director: Tom Lin | Stars: Jiao Xu, Hui-Min Lin, Rene Liu, Harlem Yu
Votes: 1,310
19. Corrections Class (2014)
98 min | Drama
Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves... See full summary »
Director: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy | Stars: Mariya Poezzhaeva, Filipp Avdeev, Nikita Kukushkin, Olga Lapshina
Votes: 1,214
20. From Me to You (2010)
128 min | Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Naoto Kumazawa | Stars: Mikako Tabe, Haruma Miura, Misako Renbutsu, Haru Aoyama
Votes: 2,945
21. What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love (2013)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
At a high school for the visually impaired student, the students are like any other teenagers: they attend classes, pursue artistic endeavors, and fall in love regardless of physical barriers.
Director: Mouly Surya | Stars: Nicholas Saputra, Ayushita, Karina Salim, Anggun Priambodo
Votes: 313
22. About the Pink Sky (2011)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama
Izumi finds a wallet full of money and loans the cash to an older fishing buddy.
Director: Keiichi Kobayashi | Stars: Ai Ikeda, Ena Koshino, Reiko Fujiwara, Tsubasa Takayama
Votes: 200
23. Sex Is Zero (2002)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
At a South Korean university most students are busy having a good time. A 28 y.o. and his horny friends are always getting into hilarious situations. He likes a much younger, pretty girl but she likes someone else.
Director: JK Youn | Stars: Chang Jung Lim, Ha Ji-Won, Choi Seong-guk, Chae-yeong Yu
Votes: 6,539
24. A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007)
121 min | Drama
When eighth grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita | Stars: Kaho, Masaki Okada, Elisa Yanagi, Shôko Fujimura
Votes: 1,507
25. Mustang (2015)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama
When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven | Stars: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu, Elit Iscan
Votes: 40,915 | Gross: $0.85M
26. Harmful Insect (2001)
92 min | Drama
Following the divorce of her parents, her mother's suicide attempt, and the rumors of an affair with her teacher, a lonely 7th grader starts skipping school in an attempt to find herself.
Director: Akihiko Shiota | Stars: Aoi Miyazaki, Seiichi Tanabe, Tetsu Sawaki, Ryô Amamiya
Votes: 951
27. Summer's Tail (2007)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Taking you back to those heady teenage days when all problems and challenges were momentary and one wished the now would last forever even while the passage of time was not something anyone... See full summary »
Director: Wen-tang Cheng | Stars: Ray Chang, Dean Fujioka, Enno Cheng, Hannah Lin
Votes: 192
28. Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)
65 min | Drama, Horror
After being raped in an unknown rooftop, seventeen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Mimi Kozakura, Michio Akiyama, Yôko Yamamoto, Seshio Zenbei
Votes: 2,697
29. Crows Zero (2007)
130 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A transfer student attempts to take over the most violent high school in the country, whose students form factions and battle each other for power.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Shun Oguri, Kyôsuke Yabe, Meisa Kuroki, Kenta Kiritani
Votes: 8,922
30. Love Me, Love Me Not (I) (2020)
124 min | Drama, Romance
The love affairs of four schoolkids: a romantic, a pragmatist, an airhead and a lothario.
Director: Takahiro Miki | Stars: Minami Hamabe, Takumi Kitamura, Eiji Akaso, Yûki Furukawa
Votes: 512
31. Kan shang qu hen mei (2006)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
A young boy starting school for the first time struggles to fit in to a strictly regimented society in in post-revolutionary China.
Director: Yuan Zhang | Stars: Bowen Dong, Yuanyuan Ning, Manyuan Chen, Rui Zhao
Votes: 1,557
32. Waterboys (2001)
91 min | Comedy, Sport
In a Japanese high school, a class of adolescent geeks joins the new synchronized swimming teacher and takes up the challenge to take part in the competition, in spite of the mockeries of the "real sportsmen".
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Tamaki, Akifumi Miura, Kôen Kondô
Votes: 3,062
33. Blue Spring (2001)
83 min | Drama
A group of a run-down Tokyo high school students face the struggles of growing up, growing apart from their friends and worrying about their future, while living in a highly violent environment.
Director: Toshiaki Toyoda | Stars: Ryûhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai, Sôsuke Takaoka, Yûsuke Ôshiba
Votes: 4,387
34. Pluto (2012)
114 min | Drama, Mystery
Pluto is a story of the extremes elite high school seniors are prepared to go to guarantee entry into prestigious universities, and asks what could possibly turn an innocent boy into a ... See full summary »
Director: Su-won Shin | Stars: Lee Da-wit, Sung Jun, Jo Sung-ha, Kim Kkobbi
Votes: 684
35. Han Gong-ju (2013)
R | 112 min | Drama
Han Gong-Ju transfers to a new school to escape her past. It takes a long time for her troubled past to catch up with her but when it does, the revelation is devastating.
Director: Su-jin Lee | Stars: Chun Woo-hee, Jung In-sun, Kim So-young, Yeong-ran Lee
Votes: 2,724
36. Solomon's Perjury (2015)
121 min | Thriller
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death; if he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
Director: Izuru Narushima | Stars: Ryôko Fujino, Mizuki Itagaki, Anna Ishii, Hiroya Shimizu
Votes: 604
37. Our Times (2015)
134 min | Comedy, Romance
Love grows where it isn't expected in this endearing romantic comedy coming of age movie.
Director: Yu Shan Chen | Stars: Vivian Sung, Talu Wang, Dino Lee, Dewi Chien
Votes: 6,061 | Gross: $0.85M
38. My Rainy Days (2009)
119 min | Drama, Romance
Seventeen year old high school student Rio Ozawa is always the center of attention due to her beauty. Yet Rio has never cared about anyone but herself due to her traumatic past. Her friends... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Kanchiku | Stars: Nozomi Sasaki, Shôsuke Tanihara, Hikaru Yamamoto, Mitsuki Ôishi
Votes: 2,387
39. Sky of Love (2007)
120 min | Drama, Romance
Mika 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.
Director: Natsuki Imai | Stars: Yui Aragaki, Haruma Miura, Yûko Asano, Yôsuke Asari
Votes: 3,763
40. Twenty (2015)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A story about three friends, Chiho, Dongwoo, and Gyungjae. Each of them has just turned 20 years old and they must decide what to do with their life.
Director: Lee Byeong-heon | Stars: Kim Woo-bin, Lee Jun-ho, Kang Ha-neul, Jung So-min
Votes: 2,539 | Gross: $0.14M
41. My Pretend Girlfriend (2014)
Drama, Romance
Miyazaki asks Noboru and Momose to pretend they are dating to stop bad rumor about him. Both begin to act like a couple in front of others and soon he begins to develop feelings for Momose, who is still in love with Miyazaki.
Director: Saiji Yakumo | Stars: Akari Hayami, Anna Ishibashi, Asuka Kudô, Osamu Mukai
Votes: 380
42. Seoul Searching (2015)
TV-MA | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In 1986, a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers attend a summer camp in South Korea.
Director: Benson Lee | Stars: Cha In-pyo, Justin Chon, Jessika Van, Teo Yoo
Votes: 1,913 | Gross: $0.02M
43. We Were There: First Love (2012)
123 min | Drama, Romance
It 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.
Director: Takahiro Miki | Stars: Tôma Ikuta, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Sôsuke Takaoka, Yuika Motokariya
Votes: 701
44. Maruyama, the Middle Schooler (2013)
119 min | Comedy, Family
Of what does a fourteen-year-old boy often think and fantasize? Well, supposedly the answer is mostly of an erotic nature and, more particularly, quite often self-eroticism. In this case ... See full summary »
Director: Kankurô Kudô | Stars: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Takuma Hiraoka, Kenji Endo, Fumina Hara
Votes: 132
45. Bounce Ko Gals (1997)
110 min | Drama
The film follows three modern Japanese schoolgirls in Tokyo as they flirt with lecherous old men and dodge the yakuza in the lucrative and sometimes dangerous practice of "enjo kosai" or "date clubs".
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Hitomi Satô, Yasue Satô, Yukiko Okamoto, Jun Murakami
Votes: 790
46. Udaan (2010)
Not Rated | 134 min | Drama
Expelled from his school, a 16-year old boy returns home to his abusive and oppressive father.
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane | Stars: Rajat Barmecha, Ronit Roy, Manjot Singh, Ram Kapoor
Votes: 47,414 | Gross: $0.01M
47. Gangster High (2006)
100 min | Action, Crime
A group of friends form a soccer team and call themselves "Tigers". The group gets into a fight seniors at their school and other students begin to view them differently. One of the friends... See full summary »
Director: Ki-hyeong Park | Stars: Jung Kyung-ho, Go Gyu-pil, Jang Hie-jin, Yeon Je-wook
Votes: 1,172
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