The Greatest Teacher: One Year Later Blu-ray BOX

Teachers who care about their students and give everything they have are extinct... except when their own lives are at stake. A teacher who wagers everything for her students, driven by such passionate educational ideals, is already an endangered species in today's world. With social media flourishing, understanding every part of students' lives has become impossible. Scolding a student brings accusations of power harassment; trying to hear their troubles brings accusations of emotional harassment. Asking teachers to get closer to their students seems unreasonable, and the students themselves do not want it either.

Yet this teacher literally risks her life to confront her students and devote herself to their education. Have you ever seriously tried to eradicate bullying to save a student who is being bullied? Have you ever seriously tried to create a classroom everyone can enjoy despite the school hierarchies that still prevail? Have you ever intervened in a student's private life to improve a troubled home environment or conflict with their parents? When students are sad, troubled or angry, she faces the problem with all her strength and sincerely conveys her feelings: "Aren't you blaming someone else for every day you cannot accept?"

This woman embodies a kind of teacher that has disappeared. The reason is that she has already experienced the future in which, on graduation day one year later, she is killed by a student.

The box includes the director's-cut main episodes, a special making-of feature and all ten episodes of the spin-off Three Years Later. Episode 1 follows Yosuke Uryu and Shunji Mukosaka; episode 2 Koichi Mayumura and Arika Higure; episode 3 Misato Enami and Ryutaro Suhara; episode 4 Nika Mizuna and Yayoi Ikuta; episode 5 Aoi Kochiya and Yuri Akutsu; episode 6 Taishi Fujiwara and Rin Kaga; episode 7 Kurumi Nakazono, Kento Yomogida and Yasujiro Toyama; episode 8 Rui Sagara and Ryuki Sakoda; episode 9 Mizuki Nishino, Kiriko Nobe and Yume Kanazawa; and episode 10 Toru Hoshizaki. Episode 6 is a collaboration with The Greatest Student, which portrays Horai High School's Class 3-C, next door to Class 3-D. A full-color booklet is enclosed.

The cast features Mayu Matsuoka, Mana Ashida, Daiken Okudaira, Seishiro Kato, Ami Toma, Mizuki Kayashima, Soma Santoki, Hitomi Honda (AKB 48), Airu Kubozuka, Nayuta Fukuzaki, Sora Tamaki, Coki Yamashita, Rio Teramoto, Mamoru Hagiwara, Utaha, Miku Tanaka (HKT 48), Shunya Asano, Jotaro, Rinka Kakihara, Yuki Tachibana, Riko, Ririka Tanabe, Dai Oike, Kanon Fujishima, Yoji Iwase, Satsuki Sakamoto, Mion Okai, Yumia Fujisaki, Noserin, Koki Kawamoto, Aozora Shirakura, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Mijika Nagai, Saya (Lalande), Misato Morita, Yo Yoshida, Atsuhiro Inukai, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa and Kohei Matsushita.

The six region-free Blu-rays comprise five main discs and one bonus disc. The director's-cut main program runs approximately 539 minutes with Japanese Linear PCM 2.0-channel stereo audio and Japanese subtitles for the hearing impaired on the main episodes. Specifications and contents may change without notice.