54 minSeason 2 • Episode 11
LatestAyuna decides to have the baby, and Onizuka and Honami decide to support her. But Oomae says that if she has the baby it will damage the school's reputation, and threatens to expel her. Ayuna says that she will protect the life she's carrying to the end, and will quit school to raise the child. When Director Sakurai hears this she has an idea...
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.
Acting
Kurosawa's Onizuka is unhinged, tender, iconic
Writing
Each student episode is a gut-punch character study
Direction
Masaki Fukasawa balances melodrama with genuine heart
Creator
Masaki Fukasawa
Ryohei Kurosawa
Eikichi Onizuka
Yusuke Yamamoto
Toshiyuki Saejima
Manami Higa
Honami Fujikawa
Tsubasa Honda
Urumi Kanzaki
Yu Shirota
Ryuji Danma
Miori Takimoto
Azusa Fuyutsuki
Hitomi Kuroki
Sakurai Ryoko
Haruna Kawaguchi
Aizawa Miyabi
Mayu Matsuoka
志条あゆな
Yua Shinkawa
Shintaro Morimoto
Sho Takada
Ryosei Tayama
Ayano Fujisawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2012 remake adapts the iconic 1998 anime and 1999 drama, but live-action Onizuka's leather jacket and bike remain eternal.
Ryohei Kurosawa (EXILE/EXILE THE SECOND) was controversial casting—fans initially rejected his 'idol' background, but his raw physicality won them over.
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