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Drama: GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
Romaji: GTO
Japanese: GTO
Director: Kazuhisa Imai, Toru Otsuka
Writer: Tohru Fujisawa (manga), Masaki Fukasawa
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes: 11
Release Date: July 3 - September 11, 2012
Runtime: Tuesday 22:00
TV Ratings: 13.2%
Genre: School
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Gardener Eikichi Onizuka (Akira) is pruning trees at a school garden as part time work. A student named Noboru Yoshikawa (Taishi Nakagawa), who is Azu Fuyuzuki's (Miori Takimoto) student, is about to jump from the roof. Eikichi Onizuka sees the student and talks the student out of jumping. Noboru Yoshikawa is bullied by 3 female classmates including Anzu Uehara (Yua Shinkawa). These 3 girls also takes Noboru Yoshikawa's money before class starts.

Eikichi Onizuka then talks with Yoshiko Sakurai (Hitomi Kuroki), the owner of the school cafeteria. 3 students who insist they were kicked out of school for unreasonable reason break into the school cafeteria.

Vice principal Hiroshi Uchiyamada (Ryosei Tayama) harshly blames these 3 kids. Eikichi Onizuka becomes angry at Hiroshi Uchiyamada and literally throws Hiroshi Uchiyamada aside. At that moment, student Noboru Yoshikawa, teacher Azu Fuyuzuki and chief director of the school Sakurai watch the incident.

Notes

Related titles:
1. GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (Fuji TV / 1998) *Drama series
2. GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (1999) *Movie
3. GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (Fuji TV / 2012) *Remake drama series
4. GTO Aki mo Oni Abare Supesharu! (Fuji TV-KTV / 2012) *SP
5. GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (Fuji TV-KTV / 2014) *Drama series

Cast



Akira	Miori Takimoto	Yuu Shirota	Yusuke Yamamoto	Ryosei Tayama
Eikichi Onizuka	Azusa Fuyuzuki	Ryuji Danma	Toshiyuki Saejima	Hiroshi Uchiyamada



Hitomi Kuroki	Eri Fuse	Noboru Takachi	Saori Takizawa	Masato Yano
Yoshiko Sakurai	Hiroko Sannomaru	Tetsuo Hashimoto	Shoko Moritaka	Suguru Teshigawara

Sugi-chan

Hajime Fukuroda

Class 2-4 Student



Gaku Sano	Taishi Nakagawa	Yuki Yamada	Aoi Shimoyama	Shintaro Morimoto
Takumi Ishida	Noboru Yoshikawa	Koji Fujiyoahi	Gunjin Mishima	Kunio Murai



Akihisa Shiono	Sho Takada	Nobuyuki Suzuki	Akiyoshi Utsumi	Hiroki Machida
Ryoichi Mizuhara	Yoshito Kikuchi	Tadaaki Kusano	Yuki Miyamori	Keiichi Satomi



Hiromu Yayama	Hikaru Nagayama	Shota Komori	Alan Shirahama	Ouho Sato
Daisuke Suzuki	Tamotsu Sugawara	Umanosuke Ueda	Seiya Dojima	Hiroyuki Kurokawa



Mariya Nishiuchi	Karen Miyazaki	Ayaka Sayama	Hitomi Miyake	Hikari Takara
Miki Katsuragi	Tomoko Nomura	Naomi Izumi	Megumi Asakura	Fuyumi Kujirakawa



Haruna Kawaguchi	Yua Shinkawa	Anna Ishii	Tsubasa Honda	Rikako Sakaguchi
Miyabi Aizawa	Anzu Uehara	Mayuko Asano	Reimi Kanzaki	Chikako Shirai



Sara Takatsuki	Hidemi Hikita	Nozomi Bando	Natsuo	Seia Yasuda
Haruka Kawae	Yumi Nakanishi	Ai Hitachi	Hidemi Ota	Rinko Morishita



Nanami Mitsuhashi	Chiho Fujii	Miyu Kirishima
Erika Nakagawa	Mayumi Otsuka	Yukiko Iwata

Additional Cast Members:

Ayano Fujisawa - Ayame Shiratori
Yumi Kobayashi - Noriko Sawada
Nao Nagasawa - Saki Katayama
Tetsuya Sugaya - Kenta Yamaguchi
Ryoko Takizawa - (ep.1)
Seiya Osada - (ep.1)
Toshinori Omi - Yukio Katsuragi (ep.2)
Nozomi Muraoka - Katsuragi’s secretary (ep.2)
Yo Yoshida - Tsubasa Murai (ep.3)
Yuki Sato - Ryoji Tsujimoto (ep.3)
Daichi Yamaguchi - Toyama (ep.3)
Emiri Kai - Haruka (child) (ep.3)
Yoshihiro Nozoe - (ep.4)
Koh Takasugi - Shinji Ichinose (ep.5)
Izumi Kasagi - Hiromi Dojima (ep.5)
Mizuki Komatsu - Yoshiko Uchiyamada (ep.6)
Takeo Gozu - witness (ep.7)
Miyu Kobayashi - girl (ep.7)
Sanae Miyata - Nobuko Kanzaki (ep.7-8)
Risa Taniuchi - Nanako Mizuki (ep.8-10)
Naomi Nishida - Misuzu Daimon (ep.9-11)
Sachi Funaki - Hiroko Mizuki (ep.9-10)
Ayumi Orii - Fujimori (ep.9-10)
Eita Okuno - (ep.9)
Shiro Namiki - (ep.9)
Koichi Kojima - (ep.9)
Yuki Tomotsune - delinquent (ep.9)
Sanae Yuki - Yumiko Sasaki (ep.10)
Shuhei Nomura - Sho Shibuya (ep.10-11)

Episode Ratings

Episode	Date	Ratings (Kanto Region)
01	07/03/2012	15.1%
02	07/10/2012	13.3%
03	07/17/2012	12.3%
04	07/24/2012	13.9%
05	07/31/2012	11.5%
06	08/07/2012	12.1%
07	08/14/2012	13.5%
08	08/21/2012	15.1%
09	08/28/2012	11.6%
10	09/04/2012	11.7%
11	09/11/2012	14.3%
Average		13.2%

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Comments

Nakama Gamers Aug 31 2022 6:53 am Season 3 please, i want to see onizuka-sensei with kanzaki again.

Shonan junai gumi season 2,, fuji-san didn't appear yet..

Natsuyaki Aug 12 2021 3:09 am Love this remake:

Great cast, great support cast.

Sometimes when I re-watch just wanted to say i missed the moment where urumi had it's moment with onizuka. That explains more of their relationship, as depicted in the manga. For example Onizuka saving urumi by his body warmth when urumi is dying. Miki was also a great support cast, i wish she and onizuka had more closer relationship instead her falling for 3/4 different guys.

Haruna is awesome in her role, when i first saw her she reminds me so much of Mayu from akb48 haha. In the special episode when she is walking with onizuka with the baby book it kinda killed me, it was nice thing to see their relationship got some what closer. Specially Uchiyamada thought onizuka and her had some physical relationship xD (him carring diapers).

Would love to see a love triangle between Urumi > Aizawa > Azusa for Onizuka haha the Genius > The greatest enemy > Teacher falling for Onizuka

The cast did a great job! But you can see that most were inexperience in acting. But they learn as the season progressed. Specially Akira

P.s Hitomi confused the heck out of me when i checked her age...such a gorgous woman! (yes normally i would fall for haruna, Mariya, Anna, Tsubasa or Yua)

Lola Jan 26 2021 2:38 am This was a fun dorama. Akira, Yuu Shirota, Yusuke Yamamoto and Ryosei Tayama did a good job portraying the characters. Hitomi Kuroki is such a beautiful woman.

Fh Aug 03 2018 10:17 pm Anyone know wat song Nomura tomoko have auditioned n sing in school festival? Kinda like that song

amislee Mar 23 2018 2:38 am Loved the inspirational quotes and moments, but this drama suffers from bad directing and weak acting, with only a few exceptions (eg Takimoto Miori, Kuroki Hitomi). Yamada Yuki's acting is good as usual although this was his first dorama (apart from the tokusatsu series Gokaiger), and Shirahama Alan is surprisingly not bad. The rest of the cast is mediocre at times and downright cringe-worthy at others.

bennyardi wyllie Feb 10 2018 1:07 am really love with haruna kawaguchi (aizawa miyabi) already add your facebook and twiiter account hope you can becoming my friend thanks...

GTO Fans indonesia Jan 18 2018 9:15 am Please make season 3 :')

Ransu Sep 21 2017 7:21 am please make a season 3 of this drama series >.<

Ichio May 28 2017 11:56 pm Tsubasa Honda was the most beautiful actres in the show

libranws Jan 17 2017 4:00 am I cried so much in this drama. i think i wont be expected for season 2 because season 1 is full of memories and happiness (in case that i know almost all the students characters before and now all of them are exactly stole my heart for enjoy their acting?). 鬼塚先生大好き！❤❤❤

Reivas Jan 10 2017 3:23 am Its really rare for me, to feel many emotion in movie or drama, and this series can do that. Really good job.

Kira Oct 22 2016 5:06 pm So many talented young actors/ actresses in one drama! Though not as good as the 98's version. It's still a nice remake.

jkilla Jun 21 2016 5:05 pm this show is far by my favourite show as well as no dropping out - back to school at 35. i only just recently been watching japanese drama but never knew it would be this damn good! oh god i hope they make GTO season 3 back at the academy with kanzki and the assistant teacher, those two made me laugh so hard on the last episodes xD onizuka must get with kanzaki! shes no longer a student ;) and far by my favourite character. season 3 is a must! they gotta do it!

Dakonjo Oct 31 2015 12:17 pm I really love this cast

Ferdy Oct 17 2015 11:17 am PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Make Season 3 ≧﹏≦ or maybe Shonan Junai Gumi drama

lumin Aug 20 2015 12:52 am what is better to watch... the 1998 drama, this remake or the 2014 gto? :-) or should i watch all of them or

SamHealer Jul 17 2015 11:00 am i ship onizuka and kanzaki. I wait till last episode. I think kanzaki eposode was not like a friendship, i think they are like couple. who care about each other.

Yuzuru Apr 02 2015 2:15 am The original cast T.T love it

CaptainMarvelous Mar 30 2015 12:26 am Season 3 please with Fuyutsuki and Kanzaki

fernandi richardo Feb 08 2015 6:51 pm I love this movie, can take a good way and true friendship

Mey Jan 31 2015 12:38 am the drama is motivated mee :) i wanna be your students Onizuka-senseiii ... hahaha i hope i can watch the next story of GTO .. im waiting the neww filmmmmm ^^

d'sign Jan 30 2015 4:08 am I want onizuka be my teacher too...

ace Nov 15 2014 11:34 pm I posted before but it disappeared. In the comment I admitted to being an unabashedly fan of this series. How it had a very near perfect cast etc etc. But one thng I really liked that I didn't really mention was the cinematography. Whoever did the blocking and scene shots etc really knows their business. Really good visual storytelling.

(One I liked was after Kikuchi helped save a classmate. He did a good deed but as he walked away the camera did a ever-so-slight Dutch Tilt. Showing Kikuchi was bit twisted) and that is just a quick one in a series full of equally great ones. Not intrusive or overly clever but just right.

All-in-all, that substatial talent in front and behind the camera made for a fun series to watch.

ace Nov 15 2014 8:09 pm I will start by admitting I'm an unabashed fan of this show. Never having read the manga or watched the anime I had no reason to compare them. But I have watched the earlier live action version. Both versions have pros and cons. Some stuff I liked more in one and some stuff I liked more in the other. Wish I could cherry pick the best parts of each and do a mash up. But I think I like this version more overall. Largely due to the casting. The kids really impressed me. Tsubasa Honda and Haruna Kawaguchi in particular stood out but almost all of them were really good. But it wasn't just the kids, Miori Takimoto, Hitomi Kuroki and Akira were all great.

The plot has a lot of flaws but even so, it is a  really fun watch.

I watched the series that followed, in Taiwan and the 2014 one, as well. I didn't care for GTO in Taiwan but I liked the 2014 because it was in GTO's hometown. But any GTO that lacks Azusa Fuyuzuki is always going be missing something. Not to say Manami Higa was not great. And her character was interesting. But Fuyuzuki seems crucial to me in a GTO show.

nurman Oct 22 2014 12:56 pm I watch it continously...:)

Toulue Jul 19 2014 3:22 pm Who's julia murai played by???

Rifukii Afayumi May 22 2014 10:34 pm best asian film i ever seen :)

shyn huynh May 03 2014 2:29 pm i love this drama. firstly i i've read it to manga and thought this script was the same as manga, but wrong,this script is very creative more than i thought, i admire akira and his special lesson,amazing spirit inspirtation for studying and make a dream come true !

shyn May 03 2014 2:28 pm i love this drama. firstly i i've read it to manga and thought this script was the same as manga, but wrong,this script is very creative more than i thought, i admire akira and his special lesson,amazing spirit inspirtation for studying and make a dream come true

Josua Kristofer Apr 28 2014 2:17 pm Hello all, hello Great Teacher Onizuka. I'm Jo, now I'm studying on Education Univ. Thankyou, you're my inspiration. Hhhmmm.. Tsubasa Honda, you're so cute :) I like you :D :v Tsubasa like a captain of Nankatsu Honda like a motorcycle So . . . ha ha ha :D =D :v

Sena Jacks Apr 22 2014 12:53 am I hope GTO can be best drama in Japan Ganbatte

Sena Jacks Apr 22 2014 12:25 am I hope GTO it can remake again with same actor and actress but with another themes. Go GTO Im from Indonesian and I hope all of this actor and actress can arrive to indonesia

Fery Apr 10 2014 1:46 am Hi GTO, I Love Tsubasa Honda, I love Mariya Nishiuci, I Love Haruna Kawagachi, I Love Yua Shinkawa, I Love Sara Takatsuki, And I Like This Film, This Is The Best, I'M From Indonesian Fan. I Want Onizuka Sensei Go To Indonesian To Be Teacher In Indonesian. ^_^ Go To Japan.

Rida fukada Jan 03 2014 9:56 pm I'm indonesian fan. Greetings for GTO. GTO 2012 is the best,,,,, This film is very funny & great! i love it.. Hi honda tsubasa.. hi kawaguchi haruna.. hi AKIRA.. hi miori takimoto.. hi shinkawa yua.. hi taishi nakagawa.. hi yuki yamada.. i love you all........... ^_^

HC Dec 21 2013 9:22 am PS: I'm AHC and I'm Indonesian. One of the quote that I learnt from this drama "Smile is Fun." :) (Episode 11)

AHC Dec 21 2013 9:19 am PS: Indonesian Fans :) One quotes that I learnt from this drama "Smile is Fun" :) (Ep. 11)

AHC Dec 21 2013 9:17 am This is the first time I like manga. I love this drama. These dramas taught us everything, about family, friendship, and I learnt many things from this drama. Is there anyone agree with my opinion?

SC Dec 04 2013 4:41 pm I agree with DF, but honestly i love GTO remake too ( kawaiii ne) so i don't care wich one better, can not compare both or any (if there's others remake again) of them, much important is the good massage in GTO story about friendship, family,etc.

PS Dec 02 2013 9:54 pm This drama is good enough. But honestly, in my opinion GTO 1998 was so much better than GTO 2012. In GTO 1998, I felt the good partner's chemistry from Onizuka (Takashi Sorimachi) and Fuyutsuki (Nanako Matsushima). But that kind of chemistry was not exist in GTO 2012.

asha131097 Nov 11 2013 7:02 am love it.. fan malaysia

junpei mizocendol Oct 17 2013 9:54 am @DF Totally agree with you

I hope so Aug 19 2013 8:21 am i like Drama GTO or the anime i hope GTO have new Series with new pupils and her old friend with many episodes i so sad,if this drama ends with 14 episodes

Airpit Discovey Jul 29 2013 2:14 am thumbs up!! better than GTO 1998. love honda tsubasa.. very cute girl FRom: MALAYSIA FANS

DF Jul 25 2013 12:57 pm I don't understand why so many people love this series. If you are a fan of GTO (anime, manga, and 1998 TV series), this will not be your cup of tea. You will have a problem of comparing this to them. The acting is pretty bad by the cast except for a few of the students, the editing doesn't allow any character development for the characters thus making it feel rushed, the show doesn't know if it was to be a comedy/drama/or anime like show, the music is really corny where it takes you out of an emotional scene, and it is super cheesy.

I do think there are some positives though. For instance, some of the students actually do some good acting. The main leads suck though. Another positive is the story isn't exactly the same as the anime or 1998 TV series. This was good for me because it kept me curious of where the story was going to go.

Overall, this was not a great show. I highly recommend checking out the 1998 TV series. It is honestly a great representation of the anime. There is actual development and you get a better idea of why Onizuka wants to be a teacher. I think that was the main strength for me.

somebody Jul 07 2013 12:56 am i watched both ' GTO 1998 ' and " GTO 2012 " i liked 2012 GTO it was perfect and funny more than 1998 GTO

Anton Kusuma Jul 05 2013 11:44 pm it's so awesome..realy i so like it.. hope GTO can go to Indonesia to see us (GTO fans club Indobesia)

danur Jun 17 2013 11:33 pm Onizuka looks like Keisuke Honda

Ryc Apr 10 2013 11:56 am we don't care about the ratings, so piss off dude

pls make more SP, love it.. :DD

HorribleShow Apr 09 2013 8:45 am I'm being honest

Cliche lines, horrendous acting, unrealistic and embarrassing portrayal of a thug teacher done by thy one and only Akira. His acting was so bad I felt embarrassed for him...

All students look almost the same (I'm Asian for God' sake, but I can't even tell them apart)

Shirota Yu is the only decent one here that is at least charming and can pull off his role decently

God knows why this has gotten 13.9% ratings...

Rozie chan Mar 04 2013 12:11 pm GTO was soooooo good. They couldn't possibly find someone better than Akira to potray an iconic character such as Eikichi Onizuka. The drama was a bit mellow but nonetheless still has that effect of tugging on ones heartstrings like how the anime and manga does.

Umi Feb 27 2013 1:03 am Akira is the best he can potrays the onizuka role very well..love it

Kawada Feb 09 2013 3:18 pm This drama looks ridiculous! Sorimachi is the one and only Onizuka ever!!

Banno Rosemarie Jan 04 2013 9:47 am I Love GTO so Much and I Like Every One Casting GTO AND Mostly AKIRA

Master Drama Oct 13 2012 9:45 am love this drama , its so funny. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!!

Bolos Aug 29 2012 5:07 am GREAT drama good cast !!!!!! :)

Frostguy Aug 17 2012 5:19 am Its a Great drama GTO2012 so cool the cast is good and Akira its the perfect actor for Onizuka!!! :)

James Aug 16 2012 5:48 pm The drama is Great!!! and the cast are.... Great too!!! EXILE Akira its perfect for Onizuka^^

GTO fan Aug 16 2012 7:10 am the best drama for GTO very good cast and EXILE Akira is the best actor for Onizuka Great GTO2012 :)

Johnny Aug 15 2012 5:54 am Its a very good drama :) the cast are Great!!! and AKIRA is the best^^

Mettanie Aug 06 2012 2:43 pm This is the Great Teacher and Dorama that I have watched >~< Thanks for share the info~ Arigatou Gozaimasu~ \^O^/

happy Jun 27 2012 9:11 pm I can't wait! I love Yamamoto Yusuke.

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