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Music of the Heart
Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
Why Are We Young?
After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.
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石原裕次郎 Kensuke Nonomura
十朱幸代 Keiko Sugiura
太田博之 Yasuo Takamatsu
西尾三枝子 Ikuko Higuchi
須賀不二男 Katsumata, vice-principal
桂小金治 Terada's father
深江章喜 Kanedaka
浜田寅彦 Takamatsu's father
高品格 Uegen
上田吉二郎 Yamayoshi, postmaster
山田禅二 Tomota
新井麗子 Miss Matsuoka
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