"Gakuen Tengoku" was also the theme song of a popular school-based comedy titled "Aishi Atterukai"(愛しあってるかい....Are You Getting Any?) which starred Kyoko Koizumi(小泉今日子) herself as an English teacher (gonna have to check THAT out someday).
Kyoko Koizumi owns "Gakuen Tengoku" to such an extent that some people may not be aware that it is a cover of the 1974 song written by the then-most commercially successful lyricist of Japan, Yu Aku(阿久悠)and composed by Tadao Inoue(井上忠夫...aka Daisuke Inoue), for the singing group, Finger Five. Very much a product of its time, these were the Tamamoto Brothers from Okinawa in their long-haired and bell-bottomed glory...kinda like the Japanese version of the Osmond Brothers of Utah.
The original, the group's 5th single under the Philips label, did even a bit better than Koizumi's cover. It peaked at No. 2 on Oricon and sold around a million records while Koizumi's version sold around half a million discs.
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