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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (2012)
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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (2012)
Original name: GTO
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 Fuyutsuki Azusa’s class is being bullied by Uehara Kyoko and other classmates, Onizuka befriends and saves Yoshikawa. Seeing Onizuka’s unprecedented but visceral, powerful response to problem solving, the school’s president and principal, Sakurai Yoshiko, overrides resistance from her vice principal Uchiyamada Hiroshi and makes Onizuka a teacher. Onizuka goes on to tackle many issues as the teacher in charge of the most problematic class, Class 2-4.
Style: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, dorama, anime
Plot: school, teacher, teachers and students, high school life, school teacher, bandit, schoolboy, youth gang, teacher student relationship, absurd humor, satire, troubled youth, silly humor, rebellious youth, adaptation, live action
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, semi serious, satirical and entertaining films and TV series with plots about school, satire, high school life, school teacher, teacher, schoolboy and teenager mostly in Comedy, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka: Gokusen (2002), Gokusen: The Movie (2009), Prison School (2015), Kisarazu Cat's Eye (2002), From Today, It's My Turn (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gokusen (2002)
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Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Gokusen: The Movie (2009)
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Duration: 118 min.
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Duration: 30 min.
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