GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (1999)

GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (1999)

1999-12-18 Japan 108 Min. PG-13
6.9 29 votes

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.

Cast

反町隆史 is Onizuka Eikichi
Onizuka Eikichi
田中麗奈 is Ayano Katsuragi
Ayano Katsuragi
藤原紀香 is Kaoru Kitajima
Kaoru Kitajima
笠原秀幸 is Ichikawa Raku
Ichikawa Raku
Toshihito Ito is Inuzuka
夏八木勲 is Keisuke Katsuragi
Keisuke Katsuragi
戸田恵子 is Mitaen
妻夫木聡 is Kawarasaki
Kawarasaki