In Koji Hagiuda‘s adaptation of Akira Saso’s manga series Kodomo no Kodomo (literally “child of a child"), newcomer Haruna Amari plays an 11-year-old 5th grader (also named Haruna) who gets pregnant. Now, the obvious question you may be asking right now is, “Gahhh?!” From what I can gather the actual knocking up involves a seemingly innocent and completely oblivious “Let’s put these together” experiment between Haruna and her male friend Hiroyuki. It’s really not that bizarre when you think about it. Avoiding mistakes like that is basically the main reason there’s sex education in grammar schools in the first place.

The new full-length trailer (see below) seems to back up Jason Gray’s thoughts on the film. It appears to be tactfully handled without any sort of creep-out factor that people may have been worried about when this adaptation was first announced.

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Without even knowing what sex is, an 11-year-old 5th grader named Haruna (Haruna Amari) engages in a seemingly innocent experiment with her male friend Hiroyuki while playing outdoors. She later learns in her school’s sex education class that she actually had sex, and when she passes out during a class rehearsal it’s discovered that she’s pregnant. For the teaser, see this link.

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Without even knowing what sex is, an 11-year-old 5th grader named Haruna (Haruna Amari) engages in a seemingly innocent experiment with her male friend Hiroyuki while playing outdoors. She later learns in her school’s sex education class that she actually had sex, and when she passes out during a class rehearsal it’s discovered that she’s pregnant. For the full trailer, see this link.

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In a time when Japan’s birthrate continues declining, one area remains the exception. The village of Kaname has the highest birthrate in all of Japan and the Prime Minister is set to arrive to celebrate this distinction. Everyone seems to be giddy except for one 14-year-old girl. She knows the real reason for the recent boom and is determined to write a letter to a prominent journalist that details all that led up to the bizarre night of indiscriminate group sex 14 years earlier.

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Igarashi (Kosuke Toyohara), a teacher suffering from cancer mentors a poor-but-intelligent young girl named Maki (Saki Terashima) in an attempt to help her pass the grueling entrance exams and get accepted to The University of Tokyo.

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