The original Ao Natsu manga has been serialized since 2013 in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Friend shoujo manga magazine, and a total of 8 collected volumes have also been published in Japan.
The Ao Natsu live-action film is directed by Takeshi Furusawa and features a screenplay by Yukiko Mochiji.
In Ao Natsu, Rio Funami (played by Wakana Aoi) is a young lady who believes that this summer she is destined to meet the man of her dreams and fall in love, but her hopes are stymied when her mother sends her to stay at her grandmother’s house in the countryside.