Not in Textbooks 4

Jun 17, 2017

1h 13m

★ 3.0

Overview

The fourth in a school romantic comedy that features a popular comic by Kazuto Okada starring Ayaka Morikawa and Ryouma Baba. One day, a love letter arrives under the Japanese language teacher, Tairaku Arihiko, at Otome High School. Around the same time, an incident occurred around the student, Aya Shirakaba, who was living with him...

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Nippan Group Holdings

Not in Textbooks 4 Trailers

Cast

Aya Shirakaba

Ayaka Morikawa

Arihiko Tairaku

Ryoma Baba

Saki Kosuge

Yurisa

Okubo

Wataru Ichinose

May Yayoi

Anna Hongo

Saki Yanase

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0.0

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7.1

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7.5

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0.0

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7.5

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4.7

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7.1

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7.3

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Not in Textbooks 4

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