[1] Sawako Kuronuma has always been avoided by her classmates because her name, her appearance and her manner too strongly resembles that of "Sadako", the main character in the 1998 horror film Ring.
Sawako also made friends with her classmates Chizuru Yoshida and Ayane Yano after she agrees to play the role of the ghost in their class's "Bravery Challenge" activity.
Kurumizawa then tried desperately to turn Sawako's attention to Ryu, even to the extent of secretly arranging a meeting between them so that she could "coincidentally" walk past with Kazehaya.
A live-action film adaptation of the manga Kimi ni Todoke was first announced in the February 2010 issue of the Bessatsu Margaret magazine.
[6] Kimi ni Todoke is serialized in the Bessatsu Margaret magazine since 2005, and it had won the 32nd Annual Kodansha Manga Award.
In addition, actor Haruma Miura stars as Shota Kazehaya in Kimi ni Todoke.
[9] The Yakumo Jinja (八雲神社) was also featured in Kimi ni Todoke as the location of the New Year party in the film.
[9][10] In addition, some scenes in Kimi ni Todoke were filmed in Kiryū city, Gumma Prefecture.
[12] The music video of the song Kimi ni Todoke was filmed at an undisclosed junior high school in the Kanto Region.
It involved over 200 high school students chosen from the Flumpool fan club and they will star as the audience in the concert where the band performed in a schoolyard.
[13] Kimi ni Todoke was released in Japanese cinemas on 25 September 2010, where it was shown on 285 screens throughout the country.
[14] Director Naoto Kumazawa and the film cast members made an appearance there, where they were greeted by a hall full of fans.
[14] There, Haruma Miura read out a letter which was written by Karuho Shiina, the manga artist of Kimi ni Todoke, and was addressed to him and his co-star actress Mikako Tabe.
[14] Kimi ni Todoke made its international debut at the 10th Asian Film Festival of Dallas, where it was screened on 17 July 2011.
[5] It was subsequently released in Singapore under its English title From Me to You by distributors Golden Village Pictures and Encore Films on 6 October 2011.
[16] On its second week in the Japanese box office, Kimi ni Todoke dropped to the fourth position, earning a cumulative total of 619,477,600 yen and 522,106 viewers.