08 Feb 2008
The Ramen Girl
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
Suzuki Sensei
Teacher Akira Suzuki breaks away from long-held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to have the ideal classroom by using his own "Suzuki method". The new semester begins. His homeroom 2-A class is about to have a student council election and preparations for a school festival. A man then takes a female student hostage...
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長谷川博己 Akira Suzuki
臼田あさ美 Asami Hata
土屋太鳳 Somi Ogawa
矢作穂香 Kana Nakamura
田畑智子 Teacher Rika Momoi
斉木しげる Principal
緒方義博 Teacher Tatsuo Kawano
富田靖子 Teacher Taruko
夕輝壽太 Teacher Tsuzuki
山中聡 Teacher Okada
戸田昌宏 Teacher Kenji Ishigaki
歌川椎子 Teacher Goi
Kaoru Sawayama Teacher Yuri Makidani
風間俊介 Yuji Katsuno
浜野謙太 Mitsuru Tanabe
窪田正孝 Yoshio Shiroi
刈谷友衣子 Minory Taira
工藤綾乃 Mari Kanda
Ai Yamaguchi Risa Tsuchida
三浦透子 Akira Kabayama
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