Great Teacher Onizuka 1999 (liveaction movie)

Director: Masayuki Suzuki
Cast: Takashi Sorimachi, Norika Fujiwara, Rena Tanaka, Hideyuki Kasahara
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 691 MiB
Duration : 1h 48mn
Overall bit rate : 892 Kbps
Movie name : GTO Movie
Subject : GTO Movie
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Duration : 1h 48mn
Bit rate : 768 Kbps
Width : 480 pixels
Height : 320 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 3:2
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.209
Stream size : 595 MiB (86%)
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Format version : Version 1
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Duration : 1h 48mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 112 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 86.7 MiB (13%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
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Great Teacher Onizuka is the story of Eikichi Onizuka, an unorthodox high school teacher whose decidedly unusual teaching methods make him a hero to the kids, but a menace to the establishment. Conceived as a Japanese manga by Toru Fujisawa, the saga of Great Teacher Onizuka achieved phenomenal success in Japan, spawning an animated television series, a twelve-episode TV drama, and a TV special. Finally, in late 1999, the braintrust of Fuji TV brought us GTO: The Movie, which is what this review happens to be about.
Unlike the usual GTO storylines, the film takes place as far away from the big city as possible. The setting is the rural town of Horobonai, which is located on Japan's northern-most island of Hokkaido. The local high school has a trouble class, which is mostly due to the presence of Ayano Katsuragi (Rena Tanaka), the local ice princess, whose dad ran a theme park called "Canada Land." Unfortunately, said park went bankrupt and the town is now experiencing a depression, of both the economic and emotional variety. The kids (including Ayano) frequently threaten suicide, and the teachers are your usual motley band of useless types.