Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru
Details[edit]
- 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[edit]
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[edit]
- Takenouchi Yutaka as Yoshimori Masaya
- Shinohara Ryoko as Kanai Momoe
- Ichige Yoshie as Kanai Sayako
- Yo Kimiko as Andou Yukiko
- Kanda 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
- Kino Hana as Takahashi Takako
- 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[edit]
- Screenwriter: Iino Yoko, Izumi Yoshihiro
- Producer: Iyoda Hidenori, Kouno Satoshi (河野啓)
- Director: Imai Natsuki, Mishiro Shinichi, Kato Arata, Yamamuro Daisuke
- Music: Endo Mikio
Review[edit]
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.
External Links[edit]
| Summer 2003 | TBS | Winter 2004 |
| Stand Up!! | Friday 22:00 | Okusama wa Majo |
