Densetsu no Kyoshi

Details

• Title: 伝説の教師
• Title (romaji): Densetsu no Kyoshi
• Also Known As: Legendary Teachers/Legend of Teachers
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: School, Comedy
• Episodes: 11
• Viewership ratings: 18.97%
• Broadcast network: NTV
• Broadcast period: 2000-Apr-15 to 2000-Jun-24
• Air time: Saturday 21:00
• Theme Song: Seishun by The High Lows

Synopsis

A man who appears to have no particular passion for anything ironically proves effective with troubled high school students. Known as a legendary savior of problem schools, he shows up one day to salvage what's left of a class that had fallen apart completely. His highly unpredictable reactions and controversial advice to students shock the teachers and staffs much as they do the problem students themselves.

--NTV

Cast

• Nakai Masahiro as Kazami
• Matsumoto Hitoshi (松本人志) as Nanba Jiro
• Takenaka Naoto as the gangboss
• Nagasaku Hiromi
• Hatano Hiroko
• Kajihara Zen
• Nakamura Aya (中村綾)
• Ishii Mitsuko
• Minakata Eiji (南方英二)
• Masuoka Toru
• Natsuki Mari
• Ishigaki Yuma
• Otani Mitsuho (大谷みつほ)

• Yara Tomoyuki (屋良朝幸)
• Yonehana Takeshi (米花剛史)
• Oshinari Shugo
• Matsuzawa Ren (松沢蓮)
• Shiina Noriko (椎名法子)
• Takano Hassei (高野八誠)
• Tachibana Misato
• Kurosawa Yu (黒澤優)
• Tan Naoki (丹直樹)
• Kitagawa Hiromi
• Samejima Takumi (鮫島巧)
• Kitamura Eiki
• Shimizu Koji
• Suho Reiko

Production Credits

• Screenwriter: Ishihara Bull, Fukuda Chizuko (福田千津子), Yoshida Tomoko, Goto Noriko
• Producer: Sato Atsushi, Ikeda Kenji (池田健司)
• Director: Kurata Takaya (倉田貴也), Hasumi Eiichiro (羽住英一郎), Ootani Taro (大谷太郎), Inomata Ryuichi

Episode Titles & Ratings

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• Ep 01: 「出現!! キレる教師」
• Ep 02: 「女子高生拉致監禁!! ベストフレンドの条件」
• Ep 03: 「学級裁判開始!! チカン教師は有罪?無罪?」
• Ep 04: 「イジメのすすめ 死への秒読み始まる!!」
• Ep 05: 「愛のコンドーム!! 恋愛中毒生徒の妊娠!?」
• Ep 06: 「カンニングして何が悪い!? 下着泥棒の秘密」
• Ep 07: 「タダ食い大作戦！学食美人母・涙の献立」
• Ep 08: 「少女の命燃えつきて･･･教師漫才最後の贈物」
• Ep 09: 「恐怖の転校生! 美少年が教師風間を殺す!」
• Ep 10: 「顔のない17才爆破予告!! 2年D組監禁事件」
• Ep 11: 「最後の授業･･･落ちこぼれ無免許教師の秘密が遂に!? 今世紀最後のキャスト登場

• Ep 01: 26.1%
• Ep 02: 20.1%
• Ep 03: 17.4%
• Ep 04: 18.5%
• Ep 05: 18.9%
• Ep 06: 17.6%
• Ep 07: 18.4%
• Ep 08: 15.9%
• Ep 09: 16.9%
• Ep 10: 17.5%
• Ep 11: 21.4%

Review

A hopeless inveterate gambler in debt (Matsumoto Hitoshi) is beaten up by a gangboss (Takenaka Naoto), and forced to work in a highschool as a lead teacher til he pays his debts off. His co-teacher is demoted by the gangboss (secretly) and is played by Nakai Masahiro (who in real life is the comedic partner of Hitoshi in the Osaka comic duo, "Downtown".) Hitoshi and Masahiro have incredible rapport, stunning comedic dialogues, and a brilliant staging during their 11 adventures as they problem solve difficulties in the high school in areas such as: bullying, a mother/son problem, an arrogant girl with no friends, a suicide, and all along Hitoshi is shaken down by the gangboss everytime he receives a paycheck.

Some call it the comic side of GTO.

For Americans it is the equivalent of "Room 222" or "Welcome back Kotter", but with an IQ of 150, not 25. A smart series, with unpredictable incredible plotting, superb comic patter (the comic routines were scripted by Hitoshi/Naoto, and at times improvised).

No script for this on the internet in English, and no translations on any disk available in English, but was available for a time in HK with Chinese subtitles as a bootleg.

Waiting to be made into a film.

Brilliant. 10/10.

External Links

• JDorama.com