Gokusen (2002– )

Gokusen is the story of recently graduated Kumiko Yamaguchi, aka. Yankumi, and her life as a new high school teacher. Unlike the other new teachers at her school Kumiko gets placed with teh... See full summary »

Stars:

Yukie Nakama, Ken Utsui, Ken Kaneko

Cast

Series cast summary:
Yukie Nakama	...	Kumiko Yamaguchi (23 episodes, 2002-2008)
Ken Utsui	...	Ryuichiro Kuroda (12 episodes, 2002-2005)
Ken Kaneko	...	Tetsu Asakura (12 episodes, 2002-2005)
Yôsuke Kawamura	...	Yosuke akiyama (12 episodes, 2002-2005)
Katsuhisa Namase	...	Goro Saruwatari (12 episodes, 2002-2005)
Shinji Uchiyama	...	Minoru Tatsukawa (12 episodes, 2002-2005)
Masayuki Izumi	...	Masayuki ohuchi (12 episodes, 2002)
Moto Fuyuki	...	Takashi Kameyama (11 episodes, 2002-2005)
Kazuya Kamenashi	...	Ryu Odagiri (10 episodes, 2005)
Jin Akanishi	...	Hayato Yabuki (10 episodes, 2005)
Teppei Koike	...	Keita Takeda (10 episodes, 2005)
Mokomichi Hayami	...	Hikaru Tsuchiya (10 episodes, 2005)
Keisuke Koide	...	Kosuke Hyuga (10 episodes, 2005)
Mikihisa Azuma	...	Seiga Baba (10 episodes, 2005)
Otoha	...	Hitomi Shiratori (10 episodes, 2005)
Shôsuke Tanihara	...	Takuma Kujo (10 episodes, 2005)
Yukiko Ikeda	...	Sayuri Wanibuchi (10 episodes, 2005)
Jun Inoue	...	Kurokawa (10 episodes, 2005)
Kengo Kôra	...	Kengo Funaki (10 episodes, 2005)

Storyline

Gokusen is the story of recently graduated Kumiko Yamaguchi, aka. Yankumi, and her life as a new high school teacher. Unlike the other new teachers at her school Kumiko gets placed with teh toughest kids there. And has to deal with all their rebellious actions. However as time passes she gains her students respect by helping them out both in school and in their daily lives. Which is easy for her to do as her students remind her of her life at home, since she is a fourth generation crime syndicate member and next in line to head it up. She's gone straight and wants to be a teacher though, but she's one person in whose class you don't want to be caught fooling around!

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Plot Keywords:

school | yakuza | sequel | yakuza | based on comic | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

NTV [jp]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

5 April 2002 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Gokusen 2

Filming Locations:

Nikkatsu Studios, Tokyo, Japan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

54 min 45 min (12 episodes)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Remade as Gokusen (2004)

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Soundtracks

"Feel your breeze"
Performed by Masayuki Sakamoto (as V6)

User Reviews

OK For A Sequel

The plot of the story is same with Gokusen (1st), however the love story here is different because Yankumi liked a teacher from other school and there was none of the story for Shin (a student from gokusen who liked her and also the police officer who also liked her in gokusen). Still I like gokusen 2 better than gokusen. The bound between the students were stronger and they did respect Yankumi more than the students in gokusen 1 but I cannot say that it's different story because it is not.

In gokusen 2 we find out that Sawatari (head teacher from gokusen 1) also appeared and became much better head teacher than in gokusen, also appearance of Kuma (yankumi's student from gokusen) whom already run his father's ramen shop.

I like this drama compare to gokusen because in Gokusen Shin (one of Yankumi's student) liked her. Thank goodness it doesn't like the anime where Yankumi and Shin (from what i've heard) ended-up together. Just make the story that a teacher is willing to help her students without love story between student-teacher is enough.

Just watch this drama even though gokusen is more interesting.