Calmi Cuori Appassionati ( aka Reisei to Jōnetsu no Aida; lit. "Between Calmness and Passion") is a 2001 Japanese movie directed by Isamu Nakae, starring Yutaka Takenouchi and Kelly Chen. It is a love story about two students who met at an art college in Japan. The film is based on a 1999 novel which was a best seller in Japan. Calmi Cuori Appassionati was a hit, becoming the 8th highest-grossing film in Japan of 2001.

Plot

Living in Florence, Italy,in 1997, Junsei Agata is studying to be a restoration expert who specializes in fine art studying under his italian teacher Giovanna.Despite him dating Memi, a language school student in Italy, He feels life is empty. This is because he clings to the memory of Aoi, a girl from school he meets in 1990 in a record shop and dated. One day, he learns Aoi is in Milan and finds she lives with a wealthy American businessman Marvin Lai, who met her while talking about the painting of Junsei's grandfather. He finds she lives in a different world now from where he left and moved on, and returns to his restoration workshop, only to find out he is falsely charged with the vandalism of a Cigoli painting he was restoring. An exhausted Junsei returns home. The next day he confronts Takanashi for falsely framing him of vandalism, but turns out no one can catch the culprit.His italian teacher Giovanna comforts Junsei saying unlike her home italy who is stuck in the past and tries so hard to restore the past, He has a future. However, A traumatized Junsei, unwilling to get another restoration job, runs back to Japan.