, also known as ''Saving My Stupid Youth'', is a

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written by

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. The series was broadcast by TBS from 12 October to 21 December 2014.

Plot

Heisuke Hara (

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) teaches at his alma mater, an all-boys Buddhist high school, while being tormented with guilt by an act of misdemeanor from his high school days. Events unfold as the school plans to merge with an all-girls Catholic high school due to dwindling enrolment, and Heisuke's

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class was chosen to be merged with a class headed by Risa Hachiya (

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) as an experiment.

Cast

as Heisuke Hara *

as Risa Hachiya *

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as Satoshi Tsutaya * Haru as Yuko Hachiya *

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as Yuzuru Ebisawa *

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as Yamada Birkenstock Kyoko *

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as Ai Jinbo *

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as Daizaburo Sannomiya *

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as Mai Awashima * Yuki Saito as Yoshie Yoshii *

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as Ippei Hara

References

External links

* * {{IMDb title, tt3912208, Gomenne seishun! Japanese drama television series TBS Television (Japan) dramas 2014 Japanese television series debuts 2014 Japanese television series endings Television shows written by Kankurō Kudō Television series about Buddhism