On a cold and rainy day, you may look for Itazura na Kiss -1996. I found it quite by accident. Once, I suddenly saw a familiar name: Takashi Kashiwabara. My first movie crash from Love Letter. In the late 90s and early 2000s, movies based on Japanese manga were rarely heard of. But Japanese movies were my weakness. Of course, I will watch, - I decided - and I was right.
You probably already know the plot, so I present it as I saw it back then: the two accidentally collide lips-on-lips in the corridor on the first day of high school. She raises her (by the way, beautiful!) eyes to him and - blurs into a dreamy, satisfied smile. And the male lead says what I would have said here: Disgusting. After all, his heart broke down. It was an honest answer. Two years later, the same girl gives him a love letter in front of his colleagues, and he again reacts accordingly. He leaves everything as it is and does not react. All girls are the same.
Then, people, their prejudices, and some evil circumstances break them everywhere. Everything is just as the boy (alias, who keeps to himself, is supersensitive, and skeptical) had thought. And even worse. Both suffer, torture, and give up on each other more than once. But fate desperately brings them together. Every time the boy sees a new positive side of the girl (and a bunch of the shortcomings!) and receives one more ray of sunshine in his heart. And each time, his protection from her emotions becomes thinner. And it's getting harder and harder for him to contain himself.
After all, the main thing is to find the one who shines for you. And even more: to take a step and talk to him in his language. In order not to lose him.