Overview
Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher. The assistant principle there wields absolute power. Botchan has a hard time dealing with his fellow teachers and the students.
Cast
- Kazunari Ninomiya as Botchan
- Nao Matsushita as Madonna
- Arata Furuta as Yama Arashi
- Norito Yashima as Nodaiko
- Koji Yamamoto as Uranari
- Naoki Matayoshi as Soseki Natsume
- Machiko Washio
- Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Red Shirt
- Koichi Sato as Physics School Principal
- Yuko Asano as Madonna’s mother