aka High School Teacher.
Why 2003 ? Because the previous and original drama was from the early 90′.

The main characters :
While Hina, a 11th grade student, wanderered into an arcade show-room where she met an older guy.
After sharing a drink, she spent an over night at her new friend’s place. (nothing happened ;) )
The day after, back to school, a substitute math teacher is introduced to the 11th grade classroom.
What a surprise, the new teacher is the older guy Hina met the day before.

How about the story ?
I’m not sure.
This is an 11 episodes drama. After watching the 2 first one, we know that the teacher is hopeless sick (brain tumor or whatever).
Hina collapsed during the math class after getting hurt during a basketball match.
She is driven to the hospital with her sensei assistance.
There, once she is recovered, she looked for her teacher whom was with his own doctor.
She is gonna heard the conversation between her teacher and his doctor.

That is the way we learn that the teacher is ill ; 6 months to go for him. Once she heard the conversation, she sadly ran away. Her teacher run after her and we finally learn that Hina misunderstood the early conversation and thought that she is dying !
Stupid teacher, he hid the truth to her. He didn’t told her that it was nothing to see with her but only him.
So I guess in the most incoming episodes Hina still might think that she is dying and will persue the life diferently. The climax must be the moment when she will discover her sensei’s lie.

It sounds to be a drama-drama/romance :D
Hina is played by Ueto Aya, a japanese idol :D so she is also a singer, a model, …… :D
She is so cute in the drama ; her smile, her hair cut :D I like her with her huge yellow scarf !! lol

In spite of the story sounds great, it is a teacher/student relationship though. Glups !!

few screenshot from the first episodes.

I need to watch Azumi now :D I bought the DVD a couple of months ago but i haven’t seen it yet. I couldn’t go over the first minutes. The picture was weird. I don’t know.

<edit : I finally watched the complete drama. Despite the fact I really enjoyed watching it, I don’t know what to think about this drama.
It is a drama/romance between a teacher and her student.
Because I don’t know how a such relationship is persued in Japan, I cannot feel if the authors wanted to leave a “message” or what through this drama. It might but in which sense ? Good ? Not good ? Denunciation ? Awake to this society fact ? I don’t know and have not a clue
Beside this teacher/student relationship, there is also the problem about teachers rapping their female students !!! Grrrrr !!! and I don’t need to be Japanese to know if it is good or not !! >