本片荣获艺学院赏最佳电影、最佳剧本、最佳男主角（西田敏行）最佳助演男配角（田中邦卫）最佳新人（萩原圣人、裕木奈江）暨最佳导演六项大奖！！《学校》是山田洋次构思了15年的意念。影片的背景是一所夜间中学，负责教学的是已届中年的黑井先生。他本来可以有机会调职到另一家正规学校任教，但他却拒绝了。又一个学期要过去，在毕业礼即将来临之前，黑井叫每个学生都以过去一年的日子做题材，写下一些值得回味的事情。班上的同学，有不同年龄的、不同国藉和背景的，不约而同都发现：岁月虽然匆匆，但箇中悲喜，尤其是黑井的关怀，却教他们永志难忘。本片是山田洋次创作生涯上的另一高峰：七年间已拍了四集，是山田继《男人之苦》后的第二个成功系列。Directed by the creator of the Tora-san series, Yamada Yoji,"A Class to Remember" unfolds in a night junior high school on the lower east side of Tokyo. Students from their teens to their sixties are enrolled. One of the most beloved teachers, Kuroi, asks each student to write an essay recalling their experience in the night school. In the midst of the class, a piece of tragic news arrives: Inoda, one of Kuroi's students, has passed away, upon which the whole class starts talking about each other's memory of Inoda. Compassionate and extremely poignant,"A Class to Remember", marks the beginning of another film series for Yamada. So far four installments have been made and all are box office hits.