One Teacher

Kei Kusanagi has a mysterious illness that causes him to enter a comatose state whenever he gets upset. One "standstill" lasted three years, so Kei looks like he's only 15, although he's actually 18. One night, he sees a UFO land and encounters a beautiful alien; the next day he discovers she's Mizuho Kazami, his new Japanese teacher. (She's really a half-alien/half-human agent sent to observe Earth by the Galaxy Federation while posing as a teacher.) When the principal finds Kei and Mizuho locked in an equipment room, they claim they're secretly married to avoid a scandal. Kei's lecherous uncle insists they get married, and predictable complications ensue. The idea of a teacher-student romance apparently plays better in Japan than does in the U.S., where images of a boy who looks barely pubescent and a voluptuous older woman smack of child molestation. (Rated 16 and older: risqué humor, brief nudity) --Charles Solomon