It's time to reveal your age.
A question:
When you mention the couple Sorimachi Takashi and Matsushima Nanako, what drama do you think of?
Confused?
doesn't matter.
plus a few more people -
Oguri Shun, Kubotsuka Yosuke, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Yamazaki Yuta, Tokuyama Hidenori, Fujiki Naoto...
Friends who are not young, the answer should be ready to come out, right?
is correct, "Spicy Teacher" .
A Japanese drama that was popular throughout East Asia and made countless teenagers create the image of "ideal teacher" from now on.
What I never expected was.
After 26 years, this magical drama in my memory is back again, with the original cast starring in the sequel.
Yes.
Most of the people mentioned by sir above were involved in this show. How to say
.
When encountering a drama like this, even if it is a mess, Sir will not hesitate to watch it.
After all, that is youth. Not to mention
.
This time it is no longer about working hard to realize dreams, but the demise of the dream itself -
Spicy Teacher gto Resurrection
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Speaking of which, do you still remember this name?
Onitsuka Eikichi.
A teacher who has nothing to do with "being a teacher".
The ending of "Spicy Teacher" in 1998.
What we saw was a perfect fairy tale ending -
Onitsuka Eikichi stopped in front of the plane that was about to take off, opened his arms, and caught the hug of Mr. Fuyutsuki, who had become a stewardess.
The hero hugs the beauty back.
is available 26 years later.
Contrary to expectations, Onizuka Eikichi is already a "legendary" teacher who has been expelled from thirty schools.
Why?
is still not accepted by the public because of his teaching methods.
failed even more.
Because of his bad reputation, no school was willing to use him anymore, He had no choice but to ride a motorcycle to take out food .
emm... How can it not be considered as adhering to the dream of a "motorcycle boy"?
But suddenly one day, the situation changed.
His former student Yoshito Kikuchi found him and asked him to go undercover in a college to investigate possible money laundering involved in the school. What's going on with
?
Of course Onitsuka didn’t do it, he said I wasn’t interested.
But Kikuchi Zento said another thing, that is, a student whom Onizuka once taught is now teaching at that college, but a few days ago, the video of his class was posted on the Internet.
suffered cyber violence.
what?
Are your students being bullied?
Coupled with the persuasion of a group of former students, Onizuka went to that school to report without hesitation.
He became a teacher again.
looks familiar.
When students encountered problems, Onizuka continued to use his fists -
Against the girl who was dating for free because of vanity, he mercilessly smashed those luxury goods with a chainsaw and told her, you don't need such affirmation.
For young girls who use forced dating because their families are poor, we will introduce them to jobs.
uses a baseball game to approach the baseball boy who has become extreme due to broken dreams and family conflicts.
And what about the original purpose, to reveal the truth about online violence?
The second half of the story.
Onizuka finally discovered the mastermind behind the online violence, but even so, his counterattack was also an "education of love."
Yes, it’s still the spicy teacher.
Nothing seems to have changed.
but.
If you look closely at the brush strokes depicting Onizuka Eikichi, you will find that there is a very different change from before.
If the previous series had a rebellious tone and portrayed Onizuka Eikichi as a Sun Wukong-style hero, then in the 2024 theatrical version, the rendering of the heroic atmosphere seems to have been weakened a lot.
even added a mockery of the hero himself.
Yes, for Sir, the biggest feeling while watching "Spicy Teacher GTO Resurrection" is that time has passed.
is like a hero dying in his twilight years, it is cruel to look closely.
Especially Sorimachi Takashi.
is not only old, but also less suitable for this role.
If the 25-year-old Takashi Sorimachi makes a contemptuous and exaggerated expression in front of the camera, he can be called a "man-tear man" who is faithful to the original work.
makes people feel...he is really acting.
It's not because he is no longer handsome.
It seems that his temperament is no longer suitable for playing a passionate teacher who comes from a speedster gang.
is a father of two children.
A neat suit suits him better than a T-shirt with stars on the collar.
So you look at the scene where Onizuka takes a chainsaw and destroys the luxuries obtained by the students through compensated dating.
turns out to be nothing more than a parody of the past.
but.
Even so, as the theme song played, Onizuka appeared on a motorcycle.
sir still has an inexplicable excitement.
poison~言いたいことも言えないこんな世の中は~, Sorimachi Takashi
Why?
Because of Onizuka Eikichi, he may have deeply affected the growth trajectory of a generation.
The students at that time were so eager to have a teacher like Onitsuka Eikichi to understand them.
is like in a 1998 Japanese drama.
When students have longing for their dreams for the future and are ignorant of the adult world, they are often beaten to death by the rigid and harsh system.
The dean of students would say, "You are rubbish! Scumbag!"
It's so simple and crude.
They are not willing to be evaluated by such simple standards, and they must resist.
So Onizuka Eikichi is the heroic idol of that generation.
is just a pity. The era of
heroes seems to be slowly coming to an end.
In other words, students no longer need rebellious heroic idols.
They no longer have the motivation to resist. There is a plot in the
movie version.
Onizuka Eikichi came to the new school. He asked the students if they had any dreams, but the answer he got was a burst of laughter.
"It is rare to find people who have dreams these days."
What does it mean?
To put it simply, what Onizuka firmly believes in is already "outdated".
In schools, there are often only two states. In addition to rolling,
is lying down.
Regarding the rules of meritocracy, apart from actively adapting and being indifferent, there is no option of "resistance" and "rebellion".
Chasing your dreams? oh. I chose to take the postgraduate entrance examination and the public entrance examination.
Youth and passion? Just saying the word makes people laugh.
In the past, it was the boredom and anguish of having nowhere to go that would make people think deeply and breed the destructive desire of rebellious teenagers.
On the other side of this desire for destruction, the desire to create and new dreams began to sprout.
cannot be established without breaking.
But now -
There will no longer be "Rebel Without a Cause", and there will no longer be "Bad Boy Sky".
There are only a group of silent teenagers who are addicted to nipple fun.
after all.
Who is still a will-o'-the-wisp boy now? Don’t you all use Kuaishou Douyin at home?
Yes, the theatrical version has already given some clues to this change - the abundance of short videos has eliminated boredom and depression.
You can kill a day with the movement of your fingers, and you can get the satisfaction brought by traffic by publishing videos.
But, is this the only way?
This is probably the question raised by this theatrical version.
Yes, times have changed, but with the changes of the times, will the spirit of hard work in the past become the object of ridicule?
sir disagrees. The creators of
apparently don't agree either.
So it’s at the end.
Onizuka still talked about the concept of helping students establish their dreams.
can be honest. Languages like
are just copying the gourd, which is extremely weak.
seems to be what the creator is saying.
Faced with the current situation, they are powerless and unable to change it.
Just like at the end of the 1998 drama, Onizuka Eikichi set off fireworks on the teaching building that was about to be bulldozed, using an almost mythical image to openly defy the Japanese Ministry of Education officials downstairs.
The students reveled above the heads of the officials and the crowd. What an obvious metaphor.
But now, this edge pointing to reality has become almost nonexistent.
It can only use the final reconciliation to dissolve the contradiction between the education system and people that has been briefly mentioned in the movie.
knows that there is no edge.
seems to be the same, and can only be handled in this way.
said this.
sir remembered a plot in the movie: Onizuka's motorcycle was used as an object of ridicule by students. It was covered with notes and punctured, and he had to push the motorcycle on the road in embarrassment.
This of course fails.
But what stirred Sir's heart was when his friend who was helping him with the cart teased him, "Why do you insist on driving such an outdated motorcycle?"
Why?
Because that is the motorcycle of the boss of the speeding gang.
Maybe he is not behind the times.
It’s just that I can’t bear to abandon some of the old rules.
is just a pity.
Today, such rules can only be outdated.
This is true for Onizuka.
The same is true for this theatrical version.
So overall.
In "Spicy Teacher GTO Resurrection", what is actually resurrected are only those former characters and former actors.
It is actually unable to revive the spirit of the past.
So we reached the end of the movie. Topics like
finally came to an end in a warm atmosphere.
It turned to emotion again -
Teacher Onizuka and Teacher Fuyutsuki smiled and said goodbye to their former students and the audience in front of the camera.
Yes, I saw that the students back then have become big stars, and I saw that Nanako is still so beautiful.
sir is actually very satisfied.
but.
If only for the sake of being in the same frame, 26 years later, we would go all out to produce such a theatrical version.
In fact, it is not necessary.
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