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翼をください

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Genre
drama television series
Country
Japan

How it feels

A 1988 Japanese TV drama about school discrimination. It follows students and teachers at a school that is not an elite institution, challenging the idea that only prestigious schools matter.

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What happens

『翼をください』(つばさをください)は、NHKで1988年1月3日に放送されたテレビドラマ。「学校差別」をテーマとしており、大きな反響を生み、現在も語り継がれている。 サブタイトルに「進学校だけが学校じゃない、でも“学校はどちら?”とだけは聞かないで!」とあるが、これは制作会議段階でのタイトル『学校はどちら?』が“あまりに刺激的”と却下されてサブタイトルに取り入れられたものである。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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