Dragon Sakura (2005)

Name: Dragon Sakura
Rating: 7.7

Rating: 7.7

Synopsis

A struggling lawyer, Kenji Sakuragi, takes a position at private school Tatsuyama Gakuen to pay off his debts. Kenji decides to try to turn this hopeless school into one of the elite institutions in Japan to help rejuvenate his career. His barometer of success will be to get five of his students admitted to the prestigious Tokyo University the following year. But rather than cramming them with lots of general information, his down-to-earth class concentrates on unknown techniques for passing the entrance examination and how to live a good life in these turbulent times. His refreshing outlook and strategy may just be what is needed to turn around the future prospects of himself and his students and teach the rest of us a thing or two as well!

First Air Date: 2005-07-08

Last Air Date: 2021-06-27

Number of Seasons: 2

Number of Episodes: 21

Networks: TBS

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Top Cast

Hiroshi Abe as Kenji Sakuragi
Masami Nagasawa as Naomi Mizuno
Kyoko Hasegawa as Mamako Ino
Tomohisa Yamashita as Yusuke Yajima
Yui Aragaki as Yoshino Kosaka
Teppei Koike as Hideki Ogata
Jun Miho as Yuko Mizuno
Akiyoshi Nakao as Ichiro Okuno
Saeko as Maki Kobayashi
Yoko Nogiwa as Yuriko Tatsuno

Seasons

None (2005)

Sakuragi Kenji is a destitute lawyer and one-time member of a motorcycle gang trying to guide failing high school students with an average score of 36 into Japan's most prestigious educational institution, Tokyo University (Toudai). For no other reason than Sakuragi's personal ambition, he has advertised his intention to produce 5 successful Toudai applicants from the students of a nearly bankrupt failure of school. In addition to revealing essential test-taking techniques for everyone who wants to know how to get into Toudai, "Dragon Zakura" will also teach the essentials of living one's life.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Idiots and ugly girls, head for Tokyo University! (2005-07-08)

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Ep. 2: Know your own weaknesses! (2005-07-15)

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Ep. 3: Play! Taking an exam is like a sport! (2005-07-22)

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Ep. 4: Don't stop until you hit the wall (2005-07-29)

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Ep. 5: Don't cry! It's your life! (2005-08-05)

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Ep. 6: English showdown! (2005-08-12)

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Ep. 7: I'll show you! Tokyo University mock exam! (2005-08-19)

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Ep. 8: Tears of idiots... Extracurricular lessons for summer vacation (2005-08-26)

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Ep. 9: Believe! Your results will definitely improve (2005-09-02)

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Ep. 10: Friendship or the exam? Final decision (2005-09-09)

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Ep. 11: You're not idiots anymore! The fateful announcement of the results (2005-09-16)

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