Love For Beginners (2012)

Love For Beginners is a live-action Japanese movie directed by Takeshi Furusawa and based on a manga by Kanan Minami. It was released by Toho in Japan on December 8, 2012.

The film stars Emi Takei as Tsubaki Hibino, an excessively studious high school girl who clings to old customs like chastity before marriage and is referred to as a “stupid showa era girl” by other students for her old fashioned appearance. The story depicts her relationship with a “modern” boy named Kyota Tsubaki (Tori Matsuzaka) who claims her first kiss.