Love Strikes! (モテキ) (2011)

The romcom gets a one-off re-invention here courtesy of the Japanese.

A socially awkward geek finds himself suddenly and unreasonably irresistible to the opposite sex.

You might say this is an absurdist Flowers for Algernon of romcoms, where our geek is still socially awkward and his love interests are still pros at the dating game.

Read my full review at Fridae, first published on 14 March 2012.