Daytime Shooting Star

Suzume Yosano is fifteen and has grown up in the countryside, but when her father is transferred for work, she moves to Tokyo to live with her uncle. On her first day in the city she gets lost and is helped by a stranger, who turns out to know her uncle and brings her to his home. When she starts at her new school, she finds out that the same man is her homeroom teacher. Suzume develops feelings for him, while her classmate Daiki Mamura becomes drawn to her, setting up a triangle between a student, her teacher and a boy her own age.

Daytime Shooting Star is a Japanese romance released in 2017, directed by Takehiko Shinjo and written by Naoko Adachi. It is the third of six films listed for Shinjo, following I Give My First Love to You and Your Lie in April, made before And Yet, You Are So Sweet, 366 Days and Till We Meet Again on the Starry Hill.

Mei Nagano plays Suzume, with Shohei Miura as Satsuki Shishio and Alan Shirahama as Daiki Mamura. Maika Yamamoto, Ryuta Sato and Naomi Nishida also appear. Produced by TOHO, the film runs 119 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.7 from 787 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 7.4 from 83 votes, indicating generally favourable responses from a modest audience.