GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (1999)
Synopsis
Tohru Fujisawa's popular manga about a wildly irreverent high school teacher comes to the screen in this live-action comedy drama. Eikichi Onizuka (Takashi Sorimachi), who barely earned his teaching degree at a second-rate college, rolls into Horobonai, a small rural town in Northern Japan on his motorcycle to take a job as a substitute instructor. Ever since the closing of the local theme park, Horobonai has fallen into an economic tailspin, and many of the town's teenagers have sunk into a deep depression. Onizuka, however, isn't the sort of person who respects the town's newly somber personality; willing to mouth off to both his students and his superiors, Onizuka isn't much of a teacher, but he knows how to get people interested, and soon his brash style (and willingness to kick a few butts) brings new life to Horobonai.
Release Date: 1999-12-18
Runtime: 108 minutes
Director: Masayuki Suzuki
Top Cast
- Takashi Sorimachi as Onizuka Eikichi
- Rena Tanaka as Ayano Katsuragi
- Norika Fujiwara as Kaoru Kitajima
- Hideyuki Kasahara as Ichikawa Raku
- Toshihito Ito as Inuzuka
- Isao Natsuyagi as Keisuke Katsuragi
- Keiko Toda as Mitaen
- Takashi Ukaji as Kudo
- Satoshi Tsumabuki as Kawarasaki
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