high school teacher 2003

Title
Kou Kou Kyoushi 2003

TV Station
TBS

Duration
11 Episodes

Cast
Naohito Fujiki as Koga Ikumi (32)
Ueto Aya as Machida Hina (17)

Synopsis
Hina, a student at Nikko High School, goes out one evening with Beniko, a girl from her year. They get split up and Hina ends up in a strange meeting with a man named Ikumi in a game arcade. The next day, Ikumi turns up as the new teacher at her school. Ikumi doesn't seem to recognise Hina but the wheels of fate are slowly moving to reunite them in what is a passionate story of forbidden love.

Official site
http://www.tbs.co.jp/koukou


	Sensei... Why are you so tender in the night and so cold in the day?
I'm only left with 6 months to live... But I lied to you...
	Am I really going to die soon? I'm only 17...
Kawaiisoni... Kawaiisoni... (pitiful... pitiful...)
	I'll be by your side... (Because you are becoming me...)
You lied to me... You're a demon...
	I saw you as my experiment... I didn't realise I depended on you...
I need you...
	I can't differentiate if I really love you or I just needed you at that time...
I'll let you go...
	I need you = I love you
Just let me stay by your side...

dog's comments: bought it because i like naohito fujiki. my initial thought was also "teacher-student relationship and terminal disease again... how boring will it get this time?" but hey... it was a bit more than that... the twist started when the student mistaken herself as the one who has got the illness, and the teacher kept the truth... in order to observe her, see her as himself in the mirror, having someone to share the same fright and loneliness... and eventually developed into a sweet, romantic relationship. Subplot of another teacher's hidden secret and how he tried to save another student from the hands of a playboy/gangster, as a form of payback for his past deeds... which also had a twist in the story towards the end. this a 2003 new version of an old drama "high school teacher" in 1993(with a more queer and complicated story) by Shinji Nojima, the same scriptwriter for "101 proposal", "under the same roof", "le bel homme", "strawberry on the shortcake", "golden bowl"...(NO WONDER~) "high school teacher 2003" has caused my crave for jap dramas once again... friends free/interested to watch this are welcomed to borrow from me.

recommend to check out the official site's story page, synopsis of 11 episodes presented in flash, with voice-overs, music and pictures.
http://www.tbs.co.jp/koukou/story.htm