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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (1998)
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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (1998)
Original name: GTO
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Onizuka is an ex-biker and gang leader who has one goal, to become the greatest teacher. He learns of the power and respect possible as an intern teacher, using his strength and connections to get his students to respect him. Now, graduated, he gets a job at a prestigious private school to handle their 'problem class' that made the past few teachers quit. He must handle a different sort of trouble when the trouble makers include some of the smartest kids in Japan who prefer a more cerebral approach to torturing their teacher. Onizuka must slowly win his students over and deal with their mistrust of teachers while handling the distrust of his fellow teachers.
Style: anime, captivating, sincere, semi serious, dorama, inspirational, romantic, sexy, manga, realistic ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: high school, teachers and students, friendship, fish out of water, hardcase students, society, lifestyle, dedicated educator, workplace situations, superhero, teenager, teacher, education, mature, comic hero, adaptation, love, youth, underground, street kid, virginity, teenage life, new job, starting over, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and captivating films and TV series with plots about youth, high school, high school life, teenage life, school, friendship and teenager mostly in Comedy, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka: Gokusen (2002), From Today, It's My Turn (2018), Crows Zero (2007), Shimokita Glory Days (2006), Boston Public (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Great Teacher Onizuka (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: About Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old ex-gangster member and a virgin. He has one ambition that no one ever expected from him. His solely life purpose is to become the greatest high school teacher ever.
Style: anime, humorous, manga, shounen, sitcom ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, high school, streetwise, changing lives, teenage life, bad attitude, workplace situations, fish out of water, adult virgin, lifestyle, youth, starting over ...
Place: japan, asia
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Gokusen (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class ...
Style: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, dorama ...
Plot: yakuza, teacher, school teacher, school, teachers and students, hardcase students, gain trust, mischievous children, criminal syndicate, social problems, coping, female protagonist ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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From Today, It's My Turn (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Two transfer students, Takashi Mitsuhashi and Shinji Itō, tired of their boring normal life and unpopularity, decide to take their arrival at a new school as an opportunity to reinvent their image, and become delinquents. The duo set out on various ...
Style: semi serious, entertaining, captivating, satirical, anime ...
Plot: friendship, high school student, school, satire, schoolboy, juvenile delinquency, youth, school bully, teenage life, teenager
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Crows Zero (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself to do it as he reminds him of his youth.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, semi serious, manga ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: gang, gang war, teenage life, youth, high school, yakuza, teenage gang, high school life, friendship, street fight, juvenile delinquent, rivalry ...
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Shimokita Glory Days (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Yuta Ono flees from the responsibilities of his family run business and attempts to get into college to get a girl. By a twist a fate, Yuta Ono then finds himself living with five beautiful young ladies. all of whom Yuta finds exciting.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, student life, youth, lifestyle, university, roommate, society, rivalry, housemates, japanese girl, mature, twentysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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Boston Public (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. It centered on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school ...
Style: realistic, humorous, sentimental, sincere, sitcom ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teacher, teachers and students, rivalry, youth, teenage life, everyday life, social problems, society, idealism, struggle, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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Ping Pong (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, uplifting, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: athlete's life, youth, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, ambition, rivalry, friendship, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, underdog, opponent ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Scout's Safari (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, South Africa
TV show
Story: Scout's Safari is a children's television series that aired on the Discovery Kids Channel and Saturday mornings on NBC. The series was created by Thomas W. Lynch.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, thought provoking
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: friendship, family relations, animal life, youth, culture clash, teenage life, society, wilderness, photojournalist, resort, high school, fish out of water ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
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Assassination Classroom (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A mysterious creature destroys 70% of the moon. The creature then warns that if he is not destroyed by March of next year, Earth will be next. The creature also demands that he becomes the homeroom teacher for 3rd grade E class at Kunugigaoka Junior ...
Style: anime, manga, captivating, exciting, light ...
Audience: teens
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Chalk (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession...teaching. It's the start of a memorable new year at Harrison High. The self-conscious Mr. Stroope is convinced that his time has come - this year he will be furnished with ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, semi documentary, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night, teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Suite Life on Deck (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows twin brothers Zack and Cody Martin and hotel heiress London Tipton in a new setting, the SS Tipton, where they attend classes at "Seven Seas High" and meet Bailey Pickett while Mr. Moseby manages the ship. The ship ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, not serious, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
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Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Boys Over Flowers (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Hana Yori Dango is a Japanese television drama series, broadcast on TBS in 2005. It is based on Japanese shōjo manga series, Boys Over Flowers, written by Yoko Kamio. The series is the third television adaptation of the manga following Meteor ...
Style: touching, dorama, humorous, semi serious, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night
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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Through the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike gang member, visits Meishu Academy to tend to the trees in the garden as a part-time gardener. Learning that Yoshikawa Noboru, a student in teacher ...
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Duration: 43 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Teachers (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Country: USA
Duration: 799 min.
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Audience: teens, teen drama
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Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
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18%
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17%
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17%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Black Hole High is a Canadian science fiction television program which first aired in North America in October 2002 on NBC and Discovery Kids. It is set at the fictional boarding school of the title, where a Science Club investigates mysterious ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, enigmatic, adult cartoon ...
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