School Wars: HERO

Friday, October 20th - 12:00pm
Sunday, October 22nd - 2:30pm

(2004, 118min) North America Premiere
Director: Ikuo SEKIMOTO
Cast: Shoei, Kotaro SATOMI, Emi WAKUI

In 1974, a new teacher arrived at a high school wrecked by a storm of violence. Seven years later, his rugby team pulled itself from the abyss to become the number-one team in Japan. Behind the glory was a story of love, tears, and daily struggles between the students and their teacher. The film is about a true, moving story of a passionate teacher who threw his heart and soul to rebuild a ruined school and his students who proved worthy of his trust.

Kyoto, 1974. A new physical education teacher arrived at Fushimi Daiichi Kogyo High School, a high school shattered by school violence. Shuji Yamagami, a former star of the Japanese national rugby team was promised a position as the head coach of a famous corporate rugby team but he decided to teach instead. What caused his change of heart was the love that the principal, Kambayashi, who simply believed that the "children were lonely," poured into the delinquent students. What was even more startling was that these delinquents who were out of control were also members of the Fushimi Daiichi Kogyo High School rugby team…