Dragon Zakura

Judul : ドラゴン桜 / Dragon Zakura

Genre : School, drama and comedy

Episode : 11

Sakuragi Kenji is a destitute lawyer and one-time member of a motorcyle gang trying to guide failing high school students with an average score of 36 into Japan's most prestigious educational institution, Tokyo University (Toudai).

"If you want to change your life, get into Toudai!"

For no other reason than Sakuragi's personal ambition, he has advertised his intention to produce 5 successful Toudai applicants from the students of a nearly bankrupt failure of a school.

"If you want to change your life, get into Toudai!" He will get them from this lowest of all schools into Japan's number one!!

Our protagonist, Sakuragi Kenji, played by Abe Hiroshi in his first role as a high school teacher, is a must see in this summer's new show. This third rate lawyer soon becomes the homeroom teacher for the special advanced class aiming for Toudai University entrance. Hasegawa Kyouko costars as english teacher and Sakuragi's opponent, and Yamashita Tomohisa from NEWS and Nagasawa Masami also appear in the role of students. This awaited original work and fascinating world view is brought to you from the popular serialized comic in Shuukan Morning (Kodansha) and has even been updated!

In addition to revealing essential test taking techniques for everyone who wants to know how to get into Toudai, Dragon Zakura will also teach the essentials of living one's life.

Cast:

Abe Hiroshi as Sakuragi Kenji

Yamashita Tomohisa as Yajima Yusuke

Nagasawa Masami as Mizuno Naomi

Koike Teppei as Ogata Hideki

Aragaki Yui as Kosaka Yoshino

Nakao Akiyoshi as Okuno Ichiro

Saeko as Kobayashi Maki

Hasegawa Kyoko as Ino Mamako

Nogiwa Yoko as Tatsuno Yuriko (School Director)

Terada Minori as Akutayama Ryuzaburo (Literature)

Kaneda Akio as Kawaguchi Hiroshi (English)

Kobayashi Susumu as Ain Shutaro (Physics)

Shinagawa Toru as Yanagi Tetsunosuke (Mathematics)