

Sensei Sayounara
2024-01-23 · 23 min / episode · Not rated
A love story that takes place in the present day and in the past. Tamura Takuro is 27 years old and works as an art teacher at a high school. He is popular among the students. Yayoi is one of the students in his homeroom class. She spends her days without a goal in her life. Tamura Takuro recommends that she joins the art club. One day, Yayoi happens to see Tamura Takuro's sketchbook. The sketchbook contains countless sketches of a woman that Yayoi doesn't know. That woman is Yumiko. Yumiko was Tamura Takuro's Japanese language teacher and his homeroom teacher when he was a 17-year-old high school student. He loved his homeroom teacher.
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- Nippon Television Network Corporation
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- Japan
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Shota WatanabeTamura Takuro
Meari HayashiKijima Yayoi
Kana KitaNaito Yumiko
Kenta SugaKodama Shun
Ren KomaiKobayashi Mana
Reia NakamuraShiraishi Kenta
Rinne SugetaAoyama Shin
Hiyama KoseiAkagi Yu
Jin KatagiriInage Tetsuya
Asuka KawatokoHiyama Reina
Amu FukaoHorie Misako
Anna KurasawaSaito Zenko
Hinata ShimanukiMano Sakura
Satoshi MizunoSuzuki Yuma
Shinnosuke FurumotoTazawa Isamu
Tomoko KanazawaTakigawa YokoTitle information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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