Gokusen

TV Series

2002–2008

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8.1/10
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Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it.

Wed, 17 Apr, 2002
S1.E1A zealous teacher goes on a rampage
Yamaguchi Kumiko, a new teacher at Shirokin High School, has been assigned to teach a class full of the school's most notorious delinquents. Unbeknownst to her fellow teachers, Yamaguchi is better equipped to deal with her rowdy students than most: as the granddaughter of the head of the Oedo family, she grew up around yakuza gang members and has learned to fend for herself. When one of Yamaguchi's students, Kumai, is accused of stealing a bag of money from the head teacher, she is forced to intervene to keep him from getting expelled. But is he really as innocent as he claims to be?
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Wed, 24 Apr, 2002
S1.E2Don't abandon your friend
When the students create posters making fun of her and the head teacher, Yamaguchi learns that they have given her a nickname, "Yankumi", which she unexpectedly embraces. One of the students, Minami, is seeing a new girl. One day, he arrives badly beaten and gets into a fight with another student, Sawada. It turns out that the girl Minami is seeing was also going out with a boy from another school, who calls him out on the matter. Inspired by her grandfather's yakuza values, Yamaguchi encourages the boys to stick up for their friend.
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Yukie Nakama
Kumiko Yamaguchi
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Katsuhisa Namase
Goro Sawatari
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Jun Matsumoto
Shin Sawada
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Kenji Anan
Hiro Wakamatsu
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Ken Kaneko
Tetsu Asakura
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Ikki Sawamura
Tomoya Shinohara
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Ken Utsui
Ryuichiro Kuroda
Shinji Uchiyama
Minoru Tatsukawa
Hiroshi Ryogoku
Hiroshi Ryogoku

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Release date

April 17, 2002 (United States)

Country of origin

Japan

Language

Japanese

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