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Product Title: A Century Of Japanese Cinema - The Learning Circle (Hong Kong Version) 日本映畫百年史：學校II (香港版) 日本映画百年史：学校II (香港版) A Century Of Japanese Cinema - The Learning Circle A Century Of Japanese Cinema - The Learning Circle (Hong Kong Version)
Artist Name(s): Nagase Masatoshi (Actor) | Nishida Toshiyuki (Actor) | Kanbe Hiroshi (Actor) | Yoshioka Hidetaka | Ishida Ayumi (Actor) | Ishii Iwao | Naganuma Mutsuo 永瀨正敏 (Actor) | 西田敏行 (Actor) | 神戶浩 (Actor) | 吉岡秀隆 | Ishida Ayumi (Actor) | 石井嚴 | 長沼六男 永濑正敏 (Actor) | 西田敏行 (Actor) | 神户浩 (Actor) | 吉冈秀隆 | Ishida Ayumi (Actor) | 石井严 | 长沼六男 永瀬正敏 (Actor) | 西田敏行 (Actor) | 神戸浩 (Actor) | 吉岡秀隆 | いしだあゆみ (Actor) | 石井巌 | 長沼六男 Nagase Masatoshi (Actor) | Nishida Toshiyuki (Actor) | Kanbe Hiroshi (Actor) | Yoshioka Hidetaka | Ishida Ayumi (Actor) | Ishii Iwao | Naganuma Mutsuo
Director: Yamada Yoji 山田洋次 山田洋次 山田洋次 Yamada Yoji
Release Date: 2003-12-16
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese
Place of Origin: Japan
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Duration: 121 (mins)
Publisher: Shu Kei Creative Work (HK)
Package Weight: 110 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1003018446

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導演：山田洋次
Director：Yamada Yoji

1993年，山田洋次導演的《學校》在日本本士引起極大迴響，不僅贏得好評如潮，更在各大頒獎禮中獨領風騷。延續篇《學校II》將舞台移師至北海道一間供智障學童入讀的高中，但仍舊以刻劃帥生關係及反思教育意義為核心主題。山田在片中寄托了他對學校及老師們的期望：教育並非只靈培育老師心目中的好學生，老師的工作也並非只是教學，更重要的是跟學生建立深厚的關係。全片溫情洋溢，值得細味。

The Learning Circle , a film by Yamada Yoji and a follow-up to his 1993 hit A Class To Remember , is a moving story about the daily life of teachers and students at a high school for mentally-handicapped children . In this film , Yamada has depicted vividly and with genuine emotion the dreams and expectations he has for all schools and teacher : ‘’Education is much more than merely minting students who are easy for schools and teachers to handle . A teacher’s job is more than just teaching and guiding students , it is also to associate closely with them’’
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Awards

This film has received 6 award nomination(s).
  • Japan Academy Prize 1997
    • Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Nomination
    • Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Nomination
    • Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Nomination
    • Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing Nomination
    • Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording Nomination
    • Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction Nomination
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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10 (1)

Kevin Kennedy
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February 20, 2008
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 Unforgettable Yamada Yoji film Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
"The Learning Circle" is an unsparing yet uplifting look at a school for the handicapped. It focusses on a set of three teachers, who gain insight and maturity as they seek to aid their mentally challenged young charges, and on one particular student, so severely repressed that he speaks to no one, who begins to emerge from his shell as he learns to help a fellow student.

We follow the repressed student as he struggles to cope with school and workplace training. The repressed student is very aware of his disability and suffers as he yearns to lead a normal life. He flees the school with his more severely disabled friend in order to do something a normal teenager would do: Attend a Namie Amuro concert. Their journey to the concert and the teachers' search for the lost students becomes the film's central theme.

"The Learning Circle" is both heartbreaking and heartwarming as we come to care about these handicapped students and their self-sacrificing teachers. Director Yamada Yoji skillfully navigates this terrain, drawing the viewer in without ever making the film overly manipulative. (Director Yamada closes the movie with an homage to the equally uplifting French film classic "The Red Balloon".)

I recommend "The Learning Circle" very highly to everyone.
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