My Rainy Days (2009) on Netflix
Rio Ozawa, seventeen, earns money through compensated dating and extortion and cares for no one. A photo store mix-up brings her to Kouki Ozawa, a history professor, and she falls for him.
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Kouki Ozawa is a thirty-five-year-old history professor whose photographs are accidentally switched at a shop with those of a high school student, Rio Ozawa. They meet to swap them back, and when Kouki collapses during their walk, Rio visits him in the hospital the next day. Rio is seventeen, the center of attention for her looks, and works with her friends Maki and Miho in compensated dating and extortion; she thinks of no one but herself. She steps in to protect her classmate Tomoko from a bully named Naoko and draws Tomoko into her circle and its money-making scheme. She asks Kouki to tutor her and gives up the compensated dating as she falls in love for the first time.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about My Rainy Days (2009)
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- Some Japanese theaters banned the film's original poster because it showed lead actress Nozomi Sasaki bare-backed from the waist up; a second poster showed both leads about to kiss.
- The cell phone novel the film is based on, which deals with female high school students, had 13 million readers in Japan as of July 2009.
