Book Girl

Here's a film that really wants you to know literature is important. A boy with writer's block gets drawn into the orbit of a book-obsessed girl with a strange eating habit. It's all very high school, and settles exactly where you think it will.

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Shunsuke Tada directed Book Girl in 2010. See Shunsuke Tada's full filmography, where to start with Shunsuke Tada, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shunsuke Tada.

Book Girl was released in 2010 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 102 minutes.