Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP

Mar 27, 2005

1h 57m

★ 0.0

Overview

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. This special follows Yoshiie Hiroyuki (based on a former graduate of Hokusei Yoichi) and his friends from the time they enroll in the school during it's first year accepting delinquents. This is a brilliant tale of troubled youths trying to break free from their former lives- fighting through various gut-wrenching challenges on their way- while the teachers struggle to help them every step of the way.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Yoshiie Hiroyuki

Sho Sakurai

Ando Yukiko [Teacher]

Kimiko Yo

Takahashi Noriyuki

Shota Matsuda

Kanai Shiho

Natsuki Harada

Mukai Kenji

Shunsuke Kazama

Izumi Mamoru

Ryo Kimura

Igaue Naoki

Sei Hiraizumi

Onodera Takashi

Guts Ishimatsu

Sakuraba Sadao

Kiyoshi Nishikawa

Yoshiie Toshio

Baku Ohwada

Takahashi Jinichi

Keizo Kanie

Kanai Sayoko

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