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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.
Keywords: imdb.live-action-remake-of-anime,
imdb.school,
imdb.gto,
imdb.teacher,
imdb.live-action-manga-adaptation,
imdb.live-action-adaptation,
imdb.based-on-manga + 6 more,
imdb.japanese-drama,
mdblist.first-in-collection,
mdblist.belongs-to-collection,
tmdb.teacher,
soundmix.dolby-digital,
aspectratio.1-85-1
Production companies: Fuji Television Network
Runtime: 108 min.
Released: Dec. 18, 1999
Status: Released
Certification: NR
