Introduction

HONEY AND CLOVER is a bestselling manga series created by Chika Umino, with 5,300,000 copies sold to date in Japan. In 2003, the series won the 27th Kodansha Manga Award, Japan's most prestigious comics award. The series was adapted into an anime series in 2005 and finally into a live action movie in 2006. The English version of the manga is now available and the anime series will also be available on DVD from VIZ Media later this year.

Story

HONEY AND CLOVER is a romantic comedy about a group of art school students who try to scrape by, barely earning enough money to buy food and pay their rent. But as soon as an innocent and talented 19-year-old girl enters their lives, things get a lot more complicated as love triangles result.

Hama Art College students Takemoto, Mayama and Morita aren't necessarily living fancy lives, but they're having fun. Takemoto has a deft touch with his art, but he's not at his best with relationships, while Mayama is calm and gentle, and Morita is a eccentric genius and a rootless wanderer. When Hagumi Hanamoto, a relative of Professor Hanamoto, arrives at the college, Takemoto instantly falls in love with her upon seeing her dynamic paintings, which are a major contrast with her pretty, charming exterior. Morita, who has returned to the college after a long break, also falls for Hagumi immediately. Meanwhile, Mayama is obsessed with the architect Rika, whom he met on a part-time job, but Rika still cannot rid herself of memories of her lost father. Mayama's spirited classmate Ayumi Yamada has an unrequited crush of her own on Mayama. Five one-sided feelings are tangling, with no answer in sight...

2006/ Japan/ 35mm/ 1.85:1/ Dolby Digital SRD/116min.