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Gokusen (live-action TV)

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Alternative title:
Gokudo no Sensei (Japanese)
「ごくせん」 (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Fresh out of college, Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi becomes a math teacher at Shirokin high school. Unfortunately for her, she's assigned by the school board as the homeroom teacher for class 3-D, which happens to be the class of delinquent students. When the class attempts to make a living hell out of Yankumi's career, they fail as her persistence and aggression gain her respect. However, little does anyone in the school know that Yankumi is actually heir to the Oedo Group - one of Tokyo's most powerful yakuza clans. If anyone finds out that Yankumi is a yakuza member, her career as a teacher could be in jeopardy.
Running time: 50 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2002-04-17 to 2002-07-03
Ending Theme:
"Feel Your Breeze" by V6
Official website:
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 6
Comment:
KSCI LA-18 in Los Angeles, CA, broadcasted this series untranslated. Season 2 had English subtitles.
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Original Manga: Kozueko Morimoto

Chief Producer: Ichio Masuda
Supervision: Takeshi Inoue
Theme Song Performance: V6 (ED)
Jun Matsumoto as Shin Sawada
Yukie Nakama as Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi

Hiroki Narimiya as Noda
Hiroshi Ryogoku as Makoto Sugawara
Ikki Sawamura as Tomoya Shinohara
Katsuhisa Namase as Goro Sawatari (Shirokin Gakuen Vice Principal)
Ken Kaneko as Tetsu Asakura
Ken Utsui as Ryuichiro Kuroda
Kenji Anan as Hiro Wakamatsu
Misaki Itou as Shizuka Fujiyama
Osami Nabe as Osami Ando (Modern Society teacher)
Ryōsei Tayama as Shirokin Gakuen Principal
Satoru Saito as Kanji Washio (3-A language teacher)
Shinji Uchiyama as Minoru Tatsukawa
Shun Oguri as Haruhiko "Uchi" Uchiyama
Tadashi Sakata as Yutaka Kashiwagi
Tomohiro Waki as Teruo "Kuma" Kumai
Yuko Nakazawa as Kikuno Kawashima
Yuuma Ishigaku as Minami

Aruto Nishitani as Aruto Yagyū
Asumi Katō as Ayumi (ep 2)
Ayaka Takata as Teradomari Witness #2 (ep 3)
Chie Sunaga as Masako Kumai (Teruo's mother; ep 7&11)
Eiji Wentz as Masato Yuki (ep 6)
Eiki Kitamura as Eiki Shimazu
Gen Igarashi as Jinguji Student (ep 5)
Gō Yokoyama as 3-C student (ep 6)
Haruki Kobori as Yuta Kawashima (Kikuno's stepson; ep 8)
Hiromi Nagayama as Hiromi Hosokawa
Ichiko Kishiba as Kikuno's mother-in-law (ep 8)
Jin Sasaki as Jin Hazama
Jun Kawai as Jun Akechi
Kaori Koshi as Yuka (ep 7)
Katsutaka Furuhata as Katsutaka Fujiwara
Kei Tanaka as Ōno (Eisho Academy student; ep 10)
Kenichi Matsuyama as Kenichi Mouri
Kento Handa as Jinguji Student (ep 5)
Kōhei Minato as Kōhei Imagawa
Kōji Higuchi as Toshihiko Ijuin (Eisho Acadeny teacher; ep 10)
Koji Kanazawa as Koji Oda
Koutaro Tanaka as Watanabe (Ara High School student; ep 2)
Masaaki Maeda as Kikuno's father-in-law (ep 8)
Masafumi Hatanaka as Masafumi Hattori
Masahiro Kōmoto as Kōhei Iwamoto (P.E. teacher)
Masayuki Izumi as Masayuki Ouchi
Mayu Gamou as Satsuki
Mayumi Asaka as Sayuri Uchiyama (Haruhiko's mother; ep 3 & 7)
Minami Hijikata as Shiori (ep 7)
Naomasa Musaka as Kumai Kazuo (Teruo's father; ep 11)
Naomi Oki as Kyoko Sawada (Shin's' mother; ep 7)
Natsuko Akiyama as Sachiko Sawatari (Goro Sawatar's wife; ep 10)
Raji Saitō as Abe (ep 6)
Ren Matsuzawa as Ren Gamō
Riko Kurita as Ami Morisaki (ep 5)
Ryo Nitta as Jinguji Student (ep 5)
Ryoji Morimoto as
Akira Osamu 
Ryōji Horibe
Ryuuji Sainei as Ryūji Sengoku
Saki Yoshihara as Teruo's little sister (ep 11)
Sarasa Morimoto as Teradomari witness #1 (ep 3)
Sei Hiraizumi as Kentarō Saruwatari (vice principal's father)
Shifumi Yamaguchi as Kenichi Mouri's mother
Shigeo Tomita as Shigeo Chikamatsu
Shingo Yashiro as Shingo Maeda
Shinichi Fukumoto as Tachibana (reporter; eps 11-12)
Shinichi Saitō as 3-C student (ep 6)
Shou Tomita as Shō Takeda
Shuntarō Hani as Mukai (ep 5)
Sora Tôma as Yūichi Teradomari (ep 3)
Suzuka Ohgo as Young Kumiko (ep 6)
Takamichi Onodera as Takamichi Matsudaira
Takashi Tsukamoto as Yuji Kurosaki (Ex-Shirokin student; ep 9)
Tatsuya Isaka as 3-C student (ep 6)
Tokuma Nishioka as Shotaro Sawada (Shin's father; ep 7)
Toshihisa Tanaka as 3-C student (ep 6)
Tōta Tawaragi as Noda's father (ep 7)
Yasuji Kimura as Ito (newspaper photographer; eps 11-12)
Yoko Oshima as Yūichi Teradomari's mother (ep 3)
Yoshie Ootsuka as Masato Yuki's mother
Yoshiko Inoue as Thief victim (ep 3)
Yui Ichikawa as Natsumi Sawada (ep 7)
Yūsuke Kamiji as Yusuke Oishi
Yūya Nishikawa as Yūya Hojo
Japanese companies
Music Production: Avex Trax
English staff
English companies
(none)
Broadcaster: KSCI LA-18 (Los Angeles, CA)
English cast
(none)
Tagalog staff
Tagalog companies
(none)
Tagalog cast
Charmaine Cordoviz as Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi
Fourth Lee as Shin Sawada

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