Fourteen (2007)

Fourteen 2007 / 14歳 2007 / 14sai , Juyonsai

Fukatsu Ryo stabbed a teacher, who treated her as an arsonist, to death when she was 14. Twelve years later, She is a teacher at a middle school whilst remaining traumatized by the incident. One day Fukatsu is reunited with Sugino, a classmate at middle school, who has been teaching piano to one of her pupils. He is also burdened with a psychological scar after verbal abuse leading him to giving up playing his favorite piano. Both Fukatsu and Sugino reached adulthood without recovering from their trauma, but they start facing their issues from the past and finding hope to live by keeping company with the 14-year-olds with all sincerity who are living in the present whilst being troubled just as they are.