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You Are the Apple of My Eye

2018 · 114 min

A gentle, nostalgic school romance that ambles through youthful jokes and first love, leaving a soft ache of remembered days.

Overview
Kosuke Mizushima is a high school student at a provincial city and enjoys a comfortable life. One day, due to Kosuke Mizushima's excessive joke, his class is interrupted. The teacher gets upset and makes model student Mai Hayase keep an eye on Kosuke Mizushima. Kosuke Mizushima and his 4 friends all had crushes on Mai when they were in middle school. Due to a small incident, Kosuke Mizushima and Mai Hayase get close.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • love
  • friendship
  • memory
  • identity
Places
  • small town
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism7
Romance7
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
romance, drama
Directed by
Yasuo Hasegawa
Written by
Shiori Tanimazuki, Kenzaburô Iida
Starring
Yuki Yamada, Asuka Saito, Honoka Matsumoto, Takara Sakumoto, Naoki Kunishima, Keisuke Nakata
Music
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Runtime
114 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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