A teacher walks into the worst class in school. Chaos? Obviously. Redemption? Maybe.
Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush" on him, Nakanishi, who seeks to forget his unhappy home life in rugby, and Nire his pal.
Acting
Keiji Sada's patient, crinkly-eyed idealism anchors the chaos.
Direction
Kazuo Inoue lets silences do the heavy lifting.
Director
Kazuo Inoue
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1959 drama captures Japan's post-war 'sun tribe' anxiety—rebellious youth seen as national crisis, not just classroom headache.
Keiji Sada died tragically young at 37; his gentle authority here became nostalgic shorthand for a lost era of Japanese masculinity.
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