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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (1999)

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.

  • Comedy
  • Drama

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Takashi SorimachiTakashi SorimachiOnizuka Eikichi
  • Photo of Rena TanakaRena TanakaAyano Katsuragi
  • Photo of Norika FujiwaraNorika FujiwaraKaoru Kitajima
  • Photo of Hideyuki KasaharaHideyuki KasaharaIchikawa Raku
  • Photo of Toshihito ItoToshihito ItoInuzuka
  • Photo of Isao NatsuyagiIsao NatsuyagiKeisuke Katsuragi
  • Photo of Keiko TodaKeiko TodaMitaen
  • Photo of Takashi UkajiTakashi UkajiKudo
  • Photo of Satoshi TsumabukiSatoshi TsumabukiKawarasaki

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