Details
Title: ヤンキー母校に帰る
Title (romaji): Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru
Also known as: Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human Drama
Episodes: 10 + SP
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2003-Oct-10 to 2003-Dec-12
Air time: Friday 22:00
Theme song: "Aozora no Hate" by Okuda Miwako (奥田美和子)
Synopsis
In 1988 Hokkaido's Hokusei Yoichi High School became the first high school in Japan to accept students who had previously dropped out of high school from nationwide. Hokkaido Broadcasting (HBC) has been covering this school for 15 years and aired a documentary last spring that caused a stir all over the country. Now TBS in cooperation with HBC will create a drama based on the school.
The drama will follow a former gang member, dropout and graduate of the school who returns as a teacher. We will follow him as he helps graduating students out into the world. The teachers and students will, as you would expect, confront all the issues of youth and society today. At this school, there are no compromises, no lies. This drama will move you as both students and teachers face a variety of issues head on.
This is a moving story that is created by people coming together and learning to believe in each other.
--TBS
Cast
Takenouchi Yutaka as Yoshimori Masaya
Shinohara Ryoko as Kanai Momoe
Ichige Yoshie as Kanai Sayako
Yo Kimiko as Andou Yukiko
Sayaka as Koga Nanae
Kato Natsuki as Tsunemoto Akane
Murano Mia as Torii Wakana
Aiba Masaki as Yashiki Tetsuji
Hiraizumi Sei
Nukumizu Youichi as Endou Nobu
Ujiie Megumi as Kagaya Chiaki
Guts Ishimatsu
Nagai Masaru as Okumura Kazuto
Ichihara Hayato as Ujiie Tooru
Ichikawa Yui as Toda Yuki
Oshinari Shugo as Chiba Kentarou
Otsuka Chihiro as Sakuta Kumiko
Takase Yukina as Sawada Mika
Ishigaki Yuma as Shimada Tetsuki
Hayami Mokomichi as Hideo
Koike Teppei as Murase Motoya
Emoto Tasuku as Junichi
Tokuyama Hidenori as Takaaki
Miyata Daizo
Mimura Takayo
Ito Takahiro
Nishiyama Mayuko
Kaji Masaki
Mizusawa Aki
Natsukawa Jun (ep 8)
Sakurai Sho (SP) as Yoshiie Hiroyuki
Matsuda Shota (SP)
Harada Natsuki (SP)
Kimura Ryo (SP)
Kazama Shunsuke (SP)
Kamiyoshihara Yo (SP)
Harada Yoshio as Iwazaki Tooru
Matsuzawa Kazuyuki
Oka Ayumi
Miyazaki Masaru
Nishi Yosuke (SP)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Iino Yoko, Izumi Yoshihiro
Producer: Iyota Hidenori (伊與田英徳), Kouno Satoshi (河野啓)
Director: Imai Natsuki, Mishiro Shinichi, Kato Arata, Yamamuro Daisuke
Music: Endo Mikio (遠藤幹雄)
Review
Whereas this would be considered (by casual fans) as another clone of GTO, this series is actually different in that it is realistic. It is based on a real-life Hokkaido school which began to take problem students beginning in 1988. The teachers, students, and aides are more realistic and less inclined to solve problems in a jiffy as it happens in GTO.
