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The Gokusen (TV)

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©Kozueko Morimoto / Shueisha • NTV • VAP


Alternative title:
ごくせん (Japanese)
極道鮮師 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi enters Shirokin Gakuen Private School to become a math teacher. She's assigned as the homeroom teacher for class 2-4, populated by a gang of delinquents. At first, the class tries everything to rattle her cage, but to no avail. In a short period of time, Yankumi gains the respect of the class. But what the school doesn't know is that she's the heir to the Oedo Group, a powerful Yakuza clan. So while Yankumi struggles to excel in her career as a teacher, she must also keep her Yakuza background a secret.
User Ratings: 723 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 33 votes (sub:21, dub:10, raw:1, edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 92 votes (sub:55, dub:36, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 191 votes (sub:122, dub:63, raw:1, ?:1, others:4
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Good: 239 votes (sub:167, dub:63, edit.dub:1, raw:1, others:7
4 Spanish subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Decent: 101 votes (sub:61, dub:34, ?:2, others:4
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 So-so: 34 votes (sub:26, dub:8)
 Not really good: 14 votes (sub:11, dub:2, raw:1)
 Weak: 10 votes (sub:9, edit.dub:1)
 Bad: 6 votes (sub:3, dub:2, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Awful: 3 votes (dub:3)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 1575 users, rank: #782 (of 9535)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.242 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.4851, rank: #2743 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 7.157 (Good), rank: #2885 (of 9642) (seen all: 7.30 / seen some: 6.69 / won't finish: 4.71)
Bayesian estimate: 7.163 (Good), rank: #2651 (of 7243)
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2004-01-06 to 2004-03-30
2006-06-30 to 2006-07-12 (USA, Encore WAM - The Block)
Opening Theme:
"Honto no Kotoba (My Real Word)" by Foot Stamp
Ending Theme:
"Onoremichi (My Road)" by Aki Yashiro
Official website:
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 4
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DVD (Region 1)
    The Gokusen - The Unteachables (DVD 1) 2004-10-12 (from $10.98)
    The Gokusen - The Unteachables + Artbox + Jacket (DVD 1) 2004-12-30 (from $43.39)
    The Gokusen - Kumiko's Way (DVD 2) 2004-12-14 (from $10.87)
    The Gokusen - Road to Graduation (DVD 3) 2005-03-01 (from $20.99)
    The Gokusen - Premium Box Set w/ Jacket (DVD 1-3) 2005-11-29
    The Gokusen - The Complete Lesson (DVD 1-3) 2006-07-11
    The Gokusen - Collection (DVD 1-3) 2008-08-05 (from $67.39)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yūzō Satō
Series Composition: Yasuko Kobayashi
Screenplay:
Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (eps 8, 10)
Shoichi Sato (eps 9, 11)
Yasuko Kobayashi (eps 1-7, 12-13)
Original Manga: Kozueko Morimoto
Character Design: Yoshinori Kanemori
Art Director: Kazuhiro Takahashi
Sound Director: Satoshi Motoyama
Director of Photography: Takeshi Katsuyama
Animation producer: Yoshihiro Murata
Assistant producer: Mikiko Kobayashi
Clean-Up Animation:
Akiko Ueda
Yoko Miyamoto
Color Check: Yuko Kobari (5 episodes
eps 1, 4, 10, 12-13
)

Color design: Yuko Kobari
Color Inspection: Harue Yoshida
Color setting:
Harue Yoshida
Yuko Kobari (5 episodes
eps 1, 4, 10, 12-13
)

Editing: Satoshi Terauchi
Ending Animation Director: Yoshinori Kanemori
Ending Key Animation: Masahiro Emoto
In-Between Check: Junko Ono
Music Composition: Takamitsu Gotoh
Photography: Yoshihiro Tomita
Theme Song Arrangement: Foot Stamp (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics: Takamitsu Gotoh (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Aki Yashiro (ED)
Foot Stamp (OP)
Video Editing: Shinichi Sugawara
Kenichi Suzumura as Shin Sawada
Risa Hayamizu as Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi

Hiroaki Yoshida as Minoru
Hiroomi Sugino as Teruo "Kuma" Kumai
Isao Yamagishi as Take Noda
Katsuyuki Konishi as Shinohara
Keiji Hirai as Tetsu Asakura
Norio Wakamoto as Kyotaro Oshima
Seizo Katou as Fuji
Takurou Nakakuni as Youichi Minami
Yoichi Masukawa as Haruhiko "Uchi" Uchiyama

Akio Nojima as Sawada's Father
Atsushi Imaruoka as Ohashi
Chafūrin as Aramaki
Chihiro Suzuki as Kudo
Chikao Ohtsuka as Ryuichiro
Eri Saitō as Sayuri Kumai
Eri Satou as Sayuri
Haru Sato as Wakamatsu
Haruo Satō as Kouzou Wakamatsu
Hideo Watanabe as
Hachida-sensei
Hatta
Hiroki Shimowada as Ichikawa (ep 7)
Hisanori Koyatsu as Iwamoto
Ikkei Seta as Nekomata
Keiji Hirai as 2nd Year Student B
Ken Uo as Vice-principal
Ken Uosaki as Vice-principal
Makoto Yasumura as
3rd Year Student A
Chinpira
Haraguchi
Sonomura
Toda
Mugihito as Chairman
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Carlos
Otoya Kawano as Kakita
Rica Matsumoto as Shizuka Fujiyama
Ryūsaku Chijiwa as Amuro
Shigueru Mogi as Ishizuka
Tadahisa Saizen as Tsuruta
Takahiro Fujimoto as
Student
Tanaka
Takahiro Mizushima as Katsushita
Tarou Masuoka as Professor of Comedy
Tatsuo Suzuki as 3rd Year Student C
Tomohiro Nishimura as Principal
Wataru Hatano as Kamei-sensei
Wataru Takagi as Miyata
Yasuhiro Fujiwara as
2nd Year Student A
Chinpira
Nakanishi
Yōji Ueda as Koda
Yūko Yano as Yasue

Japanese companies
Animation: Madhouse
Backgrounds: Studio Jack
Finish Animation: Studio Jack
In-Between Animation:
DR Movie
Studio CATS
Studio Orange
Music Production:
Columbia Music Entertainment (ED)
VAP
Sound Production: Omnibus Promotion
Video Editing: Q-Tec
English cast
English staff
Director: Dan Green
Art Director: Merideth Mulroney
Translation: Yuki Urakawa
Executive producer: John Sirabella
DVD Author: Stephen Poole
Engineer: Jason Cushing
Mixing: Alexa Zimmerman
Post-Production Manager: Scott Marchfeld
Production Coordination: Frank Pannone
Production Supervision: Sean Molyneaux
Script Adaptation: Dan Green
Subtitling: Nagisa Wada
Translation Manager: Anna Yamamoto
Caroline Lawson as Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi
Kevin T. Collins as Shin Sawada

Addie Blaustein as Tetsu Asakura
Chuck Powers as Haruhiko Uchiyama (Singaporean dub)
Ed Paul as Teruo "Kuma" Kumai
Jamie McGonnigal as Haruhiko "Uchi" Uchiyama
John Avner as Fuji
Matt Kaplan as Take Noda
Peter Ganim as Kyotaro Oshima
Sean Schemmel as Minoru
Sebastian Arcelus as Youichi Minami

Addie Blaustein as Nekomata
Ben McQuail as Kamei
Carol Jacobanis as Yasue
Dan Green as
Kakita Clanmember
Kinoshita
Mongoose Leader
Ohashi
Police Officer
Principal
Ryuichiro Kuroda
Senior C
Student B
Troublemaker
David Moo as Sawada's Father
Ed Napier as Eguchi
Ed Paul as Tenkai 2
Erica Schroeder as
Girl
Nurse
Sayuri
Jeff Wills as Senior
Jefferey M. Bender as Security Guard
Jimmy Zoppi as
Kakita
Principal
John Abernathe as
Amuro
Father
Jonathan D. Boggs as
Board Director
Student
Josh Mosby as
Miyata
Shinohara
Marc Diraison as
Bad Boy 1
Senior B
Senior C
Vice Principal
Marc Shanahan as Tenkai 1
Marc Thompson as
Haraguchi
Ichiro Tsuruta
Student
Matt Kaplan as
Habu
Senior A
Senior B
Michael Sinterniklaas as
Ichikawa
Ishizuka
Sonomura
Tanaka
Michael Alston Baley as
Chairman
Detective
Nakanishi
Professor of Comedy
Michal Meadows as
Hostess
Mother
School Girl
School Girl A
Mike Pollock as Kouzou Wakamatsu
Sean Elias-Reyes as
Bad Boy 2
Carlos
Junior B
Koda
Student
Student of Fujiyama
Toda
Sean Schemmel as Kohei Iwamoto
Suzanne Gilad as
School Girl C
Shizuka Fujiyama
Tiffany Randol as School Girl B
Tom Wayland as
Junior A
Kudo
Principal
Senior A
Wayne Grayson as Student A
English companies
ADR Production:
NYAV Post
Red Angel Media (Animax dub)
Distributor: AnimeWorks
Licensed by: Media Blasters
Recording Studio: Voiceovers Unlimited Pte. Ltd. (Singaporean dub)
Korean staff
Korean cast
(none)
Myeong-Seon Lee as Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi
Yeong-Seon Kim as Shin Sawada

Choi Jaeik as Haruhiko "Uchi" Uchiyama
Gwang-Guk Kim as Youichi Minami
Ju-Chang Lee as Shinohara
Man-Yeong Park as Tetsu Asakura
Min No as Fuji
Mun Gwanil as Minoru Tatsukawa
Myeong-Jun Jeong as Take Noda
Seung-Uk Jeong as Kyotaro Oshima
Yong-Wu Sin as Teruo "Kuma" Kumai

Byeong-Gwan Kim as Ryuichiro Kuroda
Chae-Eon Han as Yasue
Dong-Eun Lee as
Kumai's Mother
Sayuri
Gyeong-Su Hyeon as Kudo
In-Seong Lee as Principal
Jong-Hwan Son as Vice-principal
Yeong-Jun Si as
Iwamoto
Kouzou Wakamatsu
Yu-Mi Jeong as Shizuka Fujiyama

Korean companies
(none)
French staff
French cast
Marie Diot as Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi
Yannick Debain as Shin Sawada

Benjamin Pascal as Haruhiko "Uchi" Uchiyama
Didier Cherbuy as Fuji
Eric Chevallier as Teruo "Kuma" Kumai
Laurent Le Doyen as Shinohara
Luc Boulad as Tetsu Asakura
Nicolas Djermag as Take Noda
Pascal Nowak as Kyotaro Oshima
Thierry Monfray as Minoru
Yann Pichon as Youichi Minami

Audrey Schecroun as Elève
Benoit Du Pac as Kudo
Cyrille Monge as Iwamoto
Frédéric Cerdal as Ryuichiro Kuroda
Léa Gabriele as Yasue
Léa Gabrielle as Yasue
Luc Boulad as Adjoint du Proviseur
Marie Zidi as Shizuka Fujiyama
Nathalie Bienaime as Infirmière
Olivia Dutron as Sayuri
Philippe Roullier as
Aramaki
Tsuruta
Romain Altché as Terada
Thierry Mercier as Kôzo Wakamatsu
Yann Peira as Iida
French companies
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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