is a live-action

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about Maya Akutsu (

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), a new teacher at Hanzaki Elementary School who strives for perfection and punishes her students in unorthodox manners. A 12-year-old student, Kazumi Kanda (

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), has been able to withstand her strange punishments so far but the other 23 students begin to fold under the pressure. In the last episode, it recorded the highest viewership rating of 25.3% in

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. On March 17 and 18, 2006, two special prequel episodes were aired, and it recorded the highest rating of 21.2%. A South Korean

remake A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film". A remake tells the same ...

of the same title starring

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in the lead role, was produced in 2013.

Cast

as Maya Akutsu *

as Kazumi Kanda *

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as Yūsuke Manabe *

Mayuko Fukuda , born on August 4, 1994 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actress who made her debut in 1998. She is contracted to talent agency FLaMme. Her father, Kenji Fukuda, is a drummer in the band Kasutera. Filmography Television dramas * '' Summer ...

as Hikaru Shindō *

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as Erika Sato * Kaho as Yū Kanda *

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as a headmaster

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* * Japanese drama television series 2005 Japanese television series debuts 2005 Japanese television series endings Nippon TV dramas Television shows written by Kazuhiko Yukawa {{Japan-tv-prog-stub