Sensei Sayounara

Sensei Sayounara

2024 · 1 season · 10 eps · Drama

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A love story that takes place in the present day and in the past. Tamura Takuro is 27 years old and works as an art teacher at a high school. He is popular among the students. Yayoi is one of the students in his homeroom class. She spends her days without a goal in her life. Tamura Takuro recommends that she joins the art club. One day, Yayoi happens to see Tamura Takuro's sketchbook. The sketchbook contains countless sketches of a woman that Yayoi doesn't know. That woman is Yumiko. Yumiko was Tamura Takuro's Japanese language teacher and his homeroom teacher when he was a 17-year-old high school student. He loved his homeroom teacher.

Directed by Natsuki Takahashi

Network: Nippon TV

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Shota Watanabe Tamura Takuro
Meari Hayashi Kijima Yayoi
Kana Kita Naito Yumiko
Kenta Suga Kodama Shun
Ren Komai Kobayashi Mana
Reia Nakamura Shiraishi Kenta
Rinne Sugeta Aoyama Shin
Hiyama Kosei Akagi Yu
Jin Katagiri Inage Tetsuya
Asuka Kawatoko Hiyama Reina
Amu Fukao Horie Misako
Anna Kurasawa Saito Zenko

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