After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.
Yūjirō Ishihara
Kensuke Nonomura
Yukiyo Toake
Keiko Sugiura
Hiroyuki Ôta
Yasuo Takamatsu
Mieko Nishio
Ikuko Higuchi
Fujio Suga
Katsumata, vice-principal
Kokinji Katsura
Terada's father
Shōki Fukae
Kanedaka
Torahiko Hamada
Takamatsu's father
Kaku Takashina
Uegen
Kichijirō Ueda
Yamayoshi, postmaster
Zenji Yamada
Tomota
Reiko Arai
Miss Matsuoka
Sensei's Pious Lie
Music of the Heart
Far from Men
Bianca
The King and I
Starving in Suburbia
Qwerty
Punch
It All Starts Today
Rachel, Rachel
Indian Summer
The Penguin Lessons
The White Ribbon
The Witches
M'Liss
Bomb: A Love Story
About Dry Grasses
Fist Fight
Corrections Class
Imagine