Info req. for 1993's HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER

[mark schilling]

Miles asked:

> Can anyone provide brief cast and credits for the Toho/TBS "psychodrama"
> (for want for want for a better description), original Japanese title I
> believe being KOKO KYOSHI, and the director being Shinji Nojima.
>
> I'd appreciate knowing who sang the songs, and what else the two leads
> and the director have done. Am I correct in assuming the film is set in
> Kamakura?
>

The film "Koko Kyoshi" was directed by Ken Yoshida. from a screenplay by
Shinji Nojima. It starred Toshiaki Karasawa as the high school teacher and
Kyoko Toyama as the student he has an affair with. Other cast members
include Keiko Oginome and Anju Suzuki.

The director, Ken Yoshida, also helmed the 1992 "Kitaro no Jugo Shojo
Hyoryuki" -- a sort of idoru "Swiss Family Robinson.

I've written reviews of both "Koko Kyoshi" and "Kitaro no Jugo Shojo
Hyoryuki." The former is in my book "Contemporary Japanese Film," the latter
got axed by the book's editor as unlikely to be of interest to anyone
outside the immediate families of the film's fifteen "shojo." Could he have
been wrong?

Mark Schilling