Flying Colors

A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.

Cast

Kasumi Arimura

as Sayaka Kudo

Atsushi Ito

as Yoshitaka Tsubota

Shuhei Nomura

as Reiji Mori

Yoh Yoshida

as Akari Kudo

Tetsushi Tanaka

as Toru Kudo

Ken Yasuda

as Takashi Nishimura

Morio Agata

as Makoto Minegishi

Airi Matsui

as Mika Honda

Yuhei Ouchida

as Ryuta Kudo

Kokoro Okuda

as Mayumi Kudo

Reviews

Reno

**The hard work always pays off.** I love Japanese film and have seen all kinds of them. Yet discovering one more wonderful film like this made my day. Now this is one of my all time favourite. The reason is it is a very inspiring tale, based on the book of the same name, which was originally bas...

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