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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO)
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Masayuki Suzuki
Writer: Mitsuru Tanabe
Top Cast
Takashi Sorimachi
Onizuka Eikichi
Rena Tanaka
Ayano Katsuragi
Norika Fujiwara
Kaoru Kitajima
Hideyuki Kasahara
Ichikawa Raku
Toshihito Ito
Inuzuka
Isao Natsuyagi
Keisuke Katsuragi
Keiko Toda
Mitaen
Takashi Ukaji
Kudo
