“Suzuki Sensei” won the best TV Drama Award of NAB AWARDS 2011
NAB(The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan ) (http://www.nab.or.jp/index.php?What%20is%20NAB%3F) announced the winners of NAB Awards 2011 on this Sep.15th. “Suzuki Sensei” (/鈴木先生, A Teacher Suzuki) (http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/suzukisensei/) aired this April-June won the Best TV Drama Award of NAB Awards this year.
The story of the TV work is about a young teacher at a junior-high school who suffers from daily common troubles caused by his students ,and how he makes efforts and solve the problems using his ideas and passions. Suzuki is no hero and quite a banal guy but has unique approaches of education over his students and settles things steadily one by one. Suzuki’s ideas and thoughts at scenes are explained by his own monologue,which makes this work a unique one with sepcial atmosphere.
“Suzuki Sensei” originally is a popular manga work of Kenji Taketomi having been serialized in a manga magazine “Manga Action” since 2005, and won an excellent manga work award of Japan Media Arts Festival held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2007.