Gakko II | Namie Amuro - Toi et moi

Title: Gakko II (学校 II)
Also known as: A Class to Remember 2: The Learning Circle

Type: Movie
Director: Yamada Yoji

Release date: 1996.10.19
Length: 122 mn

Amuro Namie’s Role

Herself (guest appearance)

Staff

Director: Yamada Yoji
Producer: Fukazawa Hiroshi
Editing: Ishii Iwao
Cinematography: Naganuma Mutsuo
Art Direction: Degawa Mitsuo

Music

Music: Tomita Isao

Sypnosis

Aoyama Ryuhei must deal with the fact that two of his students at a special high school for the learning impaired; Takashi and Yuya have just disappeared. He set out to look for them with his fellow teacher, Kobayashi Daisuke. After searching for both students almost everywhere they could imagine they would go, the teachers are amazed to see them flying over in the balloon. Takashi and Yuya are scolded after that but Ryuhei does not feel so strict to his students. He believes that teaching is not just teaching students but giving them back what they give the teachers.

Commentary

This movie is a follow-up of the 1993 movie Gakko. It was Japan’s submission to the 69th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Amuro Namie appears on stage singing ‘Heart ni Hi wo Tsukete’ as part of her ‘mistio presents AMURO NAMIE with SUPER MONKEY’S TOUR ’96’.

Other songs by Amuro Namie (‘GOOD-NIGHT’ and ‘Don’t wanna cry’) can also be heard in the movie, as they are listened by the characters.

Hamasayuki Ayumi is also starring this film.

Main Cast (alphabetical order)

Hamasaki Ayumi
Hara Hideko
Kanbe Hiroshi
Ishida Ayumi
Izumi Pinko
Nagase Masatoshi
Nakamura Tomijuro
Nishida Toshiyuki
Umegaki Yoshiaki
Yoshioka Hidetaka
Yui Masayuki