Kids often think their teachers live in a box outside classroom hours -- they are shocked when they see Miss Krabappel buying groceries or walking her dog. Guess what kids -- teachers also often have no clue what you do outside school, unless they are informed by parents, social workers or the police.
Some teachers, though, play an active role in their students' out-of-classroom lives as coaches, tutors and, as so many headlines remind us, lovers.
Keisuke Yoshida, winner of the 2006 Yubari Fantastic Film Festival grand prize for his comic featurette "Namanatsu," has made the latter two relationships the basis of his first feature, "Tsukue no Nakami (The Contents of the Desk)." In other words, his hero, a socially inept freeter (job-hopping part-time worker) in his mid-20s, falls hard for the excruciatingly cute high-school girl he is prepping for her college entrance exam.