Schoolboy Crush

"Schoolboy Crush" is a prime example of the curious genre of Japanese media called "BL" or "Boy's Love." In fact, the Japanese title of this film is "Boy's Love 2." (I don't know if "Boy's Love" and "Boy's Love 2" -- both starring A-list "looker" Yoshikazu Kotani -- were the first live action forays into the BL manga aesthetic.) Sora (Atsumi Kanno) is a hopelessly, fatally attractive high school student whose life is as emotionally messy as his hair. The soundtrack of Sora's life is the cacophany of wolf-whistles he gets everywhere. But Sora's sad soul is as magnetic as his lithe body. Sora shows up as a prized transfer student at prep school to discover that his fresh-out-of-college homeroom teacher Mr. Aoi (Kotani) is a recent one-nighter -- or 'trick', as Sora is monetizing his beauty at night to fulfill a personal dream. Mr. Aoi tries to maintain boundaries, but resistance to Sora is comically futile. This is a story of how Aoi falls in love with the doomed Sora. The curious thing about BL is that it is not actually targeted to a gay audience, but rather to Japanese women who enjoy stories of beautiful guys in gay love. And so every male in the story is a 'looker.' Looking past the 'lookers', this is a very well directed film, blending innocence, corruption, and tragedy into an affecting mood. From start to end, it induces a hypnotic and beautiful melancholy that lingers after the final frame.

I have ordered this dvd twice and both times had trouble with the subtitles. I understand some Japanese but I definitely need the english sub-titles and I was not able to activate the subtitles for this movie. If I clicked on subtitle yes and then clicked on return to movie, the subtitle button seemed to deactivate. It was interesting to see the special features appear with subtitles but the movie itself had no subtitles. The actors in the movie are very attractive and the story seems to be very nice but without the subtitles, it is not as enjoyable as it should be.

Very interesting film with a good story to it, there is a lot of complex feelings mixed into the characters. Sometimes getting close to a soap opera type scene. The actors are good and play their parts very well. Overall it is a good movie but something you have to be in the mood to be watching.

excellent movie, I really enjoyed it. It was sad, had a great cast and even my friends that don't like foreign movies loved it. It shows how people are blind to things and don't see beyond what they want and feel and how things can get out of hand easily. It also shows how jealousy can lead to very bad consequences for those around you.

This is a story about love, that only the Japanese could conceive and film. Its emotional complexity and level of human interaction draws the viewer into the deceitful world of young rich men in a private school. It also displays the aspects of love that is not generally known or accepted. Love can and will be a very fickle mistress, as what we want and what we get can be two totally different things!!! NJMJr!!!

I went into this movie sort of expecting the typical teenage angst/boarding school brutality movie that has been done ad nauseum. What I got was something completely different. Sure, there was angst and bullying, but the story wove its way through the film independent of those issues. The movie on a whole, from beginning to end, moved me because I could understand the underlying emotions of hope and hopelessness, faith and futility, need and understanding. The ending could not have been more perfect and what needed to be resolved, was.

Complicated.Dark.Japanese.Teacher has some maturity problems and do not, cannot? accept the challenge.Student is socially disturbed, adopted in the high-class society which does not seem to accept him.Relatively nice ending.

The movie was much too slow in the beggining but the pace picked up towards the midpoint of the movie. The final heartbreak results in a devine intervention.

`Schoolboy Crush' is a Japanese film that explores the relationships in an all-male boarding high-school, complicated by one of the teachers also being gay. There is the standard array of characters: the rebel with a cause, the school's squat swot with goofy-teeth and glasses, and the inevitable bully with his posse. Classroom, dormitory, sportsfield, shower-room, staffroom all have their set scenes. There's plenty of eye-candy on offer, as well as bad dress-sense - oh, and a goat named Noah.The film itself has the air of being a bit like a soap opera, with the requisite melodramas of youthful love, not helped by the histrionic soundtrack. Issues involving money, adoption, the suicide of a friend, and unrequited love all eventually lead to violence. In true soap-opera style, there are a few surprises along the way to keep our attention. It's all quite laughable in its own way, and there is naturally the requisite happy ending.It's professionally shot and well-acted within the bounds of the convention of this kind of film. Apart from a photo gallery, my DVD has no extras.

I bought this film on the recommendation of a friend and I'm really glad I did. I love films where you think you know it all but then it throws a spanner in the works and proves you totally wrong. This is just such a film.When a new student turns up at a private boys school, things get tough for teacher Aoi. The student, Sora turns out to be a young rent boy he'd been with after a relationship broke down.Knowing Sora has his number on his cell phone, Aoi tries to get it back fearing his secret will be revealed and cost him his job. Meanwhile Sora's roommate is falling in love with him which upsets the school bully who has a secret too.When all four's paths collide, the results are disasterous and deadly.As we find that we've been wrong about Sora all along, we are driven down a very tragic road.With great actors (all of whom are goodlooking) and good acting, this is a film that you'll want to watch twice or maybe even more times.Buy it and enjoy.

not up to my expectations , my fault took picture on cover as interesting but very disappointing. I do not blame the sender fore my likes and dislikes .The sender as been very good at dispatching items quickly excellent service and reliable,will use sender in the near future.

excellent

yea ok this is the 'theatrical version' of the origional 'boys love' and it even has the same main guy in it but that dosnt meen they are the same. this one is much more Dramatic!! and in my opinion the better of the two. i recomend this to anyone who has a colection of these type of films like me and my sister do! enjoy!