Dragon Sakura (2005)
Original title: ドラゴン桜
Dragon Sakura is a 2005 Japanese-language drama series. It stars Hiroshi Abe, Masami Nagasawa and Kyoko Hasegawa.
A struggling lawyer, Kenji Sakuragi, takes a position at private school Tatsuyama Gakuen to pay off his debts. Kenji decides to try to turn this hopeless school into one of the elite institutions in Japan to help rejuvenate his career. His barometer of success will be to get five of his students admitted to the prestigious Tokyo University the following year. But rather than cramming them with lots of general information, his down-to-earth class concentrates on unknown techniques for passing the entrance examination and how to live a good life in these turbulent times. His refreshing outlook and strategy may just be what is needed to turn around the future prospects of himself and his students and teach the rest of us a thing or two as well!
Where to watch Dragon Sakura
Stream: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Official site
Cast
- Hiroshi Abe as Kenji Sakuragi
- Masami Nagasawa as Naomi Mizuno
- Kyoko Hasegawa as Mamako Ino
- Tomohisa Yamashita as Yusuke Yajima
- Yui Aragaki as Yoshino Kosaka
- Teppei Koike as Hideki Ogata
- Jun Miho as Yuko Mizuno
- Akiyoshi Nakao as Ichiro Okuno
- Saeko as Maki Kobayashi
- Yoko Nogiwa as Yuriko Tatsuno
- Minori Terada
- Mitsuru Karahashi
