Details
Title: ごくせん
Title (romaji): Gokusen
Genre: Comedy, School
Broadcast network: NTV
Season 1
Episodes: 12 + Special (Graduation)
Broadcast period: 2002-Apr-01 to 2002-Jul-03
SP: 2003-Mar-26
Air time: Wednesday 22:00
Theme song: Feel Your Breeze by V6
Synopsis
The story of a young, idealistic teacher who enters Shirokin Gakuen with hopes of making a difference in the students' lives. However, Yamaguchi Kumiko (Nakama Yukie) is in for a rude awakening when she finds that she will be the homeroom teacher of 3-D, the hardest class to maintain in the school. The students have multi-colored hair, sloppy uniforms, and show absolutely no respect to her. The leader of the class, Sawada Shin is lazy but bright and shows some interest in Yamaguchi when he notices that she is very different from other teachers. The students try to bully her to make her quit, but their attempts don't get them very far.
What the class and the rest of the school does not know is that Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to the Ooedo Group, a notorious yakuza clan. Even though her family would like her to take the title of Ojou when her grandfather dies, they have accepted the fact that Yamaguchi would rather be a teacher.
Eventually, the students learn to respect their quirky teacher because of her devotion to them, and even give her a nickname: Yankumi.
Cast
- Nakama Yukie as Yamaguchi Kumiko (Yankumi / Ojou / Kumicho) (Math Teacher/Class 3D adviser)
- Matsumoto Jun as Sawada Shin
- Namase Katsuhisa as Sawatari Goro, Kyoto (School Vice Principal)
- Utsui Ken as Kuroda Ryuichiro (Kumiko's grandpa / 3rd Generation Oedo Yakuza Boss)
- Anan Kenji as Wakamatsu Hiro
- Kaneko Ken as Asakura Tetsu
- Uchiyama Shinji as Tatsukawa Minoru
- Ryogoku Hiroshi as Sugawara Makoto
- Oguri Shun as "Uchi" / Uchiyama Haruhiko
- Waki Tomohiro as "Kuma" / Kumai Teruo
- Narimiya Hiroki as Noda Takeshi
- Ishigaki Yuma as Minami Yoichi
- Ito Misaki as Fujiyama Shizuka (English Teacher)
- Nakazawa Yuko as Kawashima Kikuno (School Nurse)
- Nabe Osami as Ando Osamu (Social Studies Teacher)
- Kohmoto Masahiro as Iwamoto Kohei (P.E. Teacher)
- Okuma Ichiro as Oyama Hajime (Science Teacher)
- Tayama Ryosei as Shirakawa Gonzo (Principal)
- Saito Satoru as Washio Kanji (Japanese Language Teacher)
- Sawamura Ikki as Shinohara Tomoya (Police Officer)
- Sakata Tadashi as Kashiwagi Yutaka (Police Officer)
Class 3D
-Kawai Jun (河合潤) as Akechi Jun
-Minato Kohei (港耕平) as Imagawa Kohei
-Okabe Hiroki (岡部紘樹) as Uesugi Hiroki
-Kamiji Yusuke as Oishi Yusuke
-Izumi Masayuki as Ochi Masayuki
-Kanazawa Koji (金沢浩司) as Oda Koji
-Matsuzawa Ren as Gamo Ren
-Kitamura Eiki as Shimazu Eiki
-Sainei Ryuji as Sengoku Ryuji
-Tomita Sho as Takeda Sho
-Tomita Shigeo as Chikamatsu Shigeo
-Sasaki Hitoshi (佐々木仁) as Hazama Hitoshi
-Hatanaka Masafumi (畠中正文) as Hattori Masafumi
-Furuhata Katsutaka (古畑勝隆) as Fujiwara Katsutaka
-Nishikawa Yuya (西川祐也) as Hojo Yuya
-Nagayama Hiromi (長山浩巳) as Hosokawa Hiromi
-Morimoto Ryoji as Horibe Ryoji
-Yashiro Shingo as Maeda Shingo
-Onodera Takamichi (小野寺尊允) as Matsudaira Takamichi
-Matsuyama Kenichi as Mori Kenichi
-Nishitani Aruto (西谷有統) as Yagyu Mitsuru
Guests
-Tanaka Koutaro as Watanabe (student of Ara High School, ep2)
-Inoue Yoshiko as the thief victim (ep3)
-Asaka Mayumi as Uchiyama Sayuri (Uchi's mother, ep3&7)
-Toma Sora (藤間宇宙) as Teradomari Yuichi (Class 3A, ep3)
-Oshima Yoko as Teradomari's mother (ep3)
-Kurita Riko as Morisaki Ami (Momo Girls's High, ep5)
-Handa Kento as the student from Jinguji High School (ep5)
-Wentz Eiji as Yuki Masato (27th student of Class 3D, ep6)
-Otsuka Yoshie (大塚良重) as Yuki Masato's mother (ep6)
-Ohgo Suzuka as the younger Kumiko (ep6)
-Isaka Tatsuya as a Class 3C student (ep6)
-Sunaga Chie (須永千重) as Kumai Masako (Kuma's mother, ep7&11)
-Nishioka Tokuma as Sawada Shotaro (Shin's father, ep7)
-Ichikawa Yui as Sawada Natsumi (Shin's little sister, ep7)
-Oki Naomi (沖直未) as Sawada Kyoko (Shin's mother, ep7)
-Tawaragi Tota as Noda Takeshi's father (ep7)
-Yamaguchi Shifumi (山口詩史) as Mori Kenichi's mother (ep7)
-Kobori Haruki (小堀陽貴) as Kawashima Yuta (Kawashima Kikuno's stepson, ep cool
-Maeda Masaaki (前田昌明) as Kawashima Kikuno's father-in-law (ep cool
-Kishiba Ichiko (貴柴いち子) as Kawashima Kikuno's mother-in-law (ep cool
-Tsukamoto Takashi as Kurosaki Yuji (Ex-Shirokin student, ep9)
-Akiyama Natsuko as Sawatari Sachiko (Sawatari-kyoto's wife, ep10)
-Higuchi Koji as Ijuin Toshihiko (teacher in Ei Sho Gakuen, ep10)
-Tanaka Kei as Ono (student of Ei Sho Gakuen, ep10)
-Musaka Naomasa as Kumai Kazuo (Kuma's father, ep11)
-Yoshihara Saki (吉原沙貴) as Kuma's little sister (ep11)
-Fukumoto Shinichi as Tachibana (writer of "Shukan Wednesday", ep11-12)
-Kimura Yasushi (木村靖司) as Ito (photographer of "Shukan Wednesday, ep11-12)
-Hiraizumi Sei as Sawatari Kentaro (Shirokin's director & Sawatari-kyoto's father, ep12)
-Inomata Yuki
-Matsumoto Rio as Wakaba (Hot Spring's attendant, SP)
-Kaneda Akio as Uchi's future boss (SP)
-Nonaka Isao as the store owner (SP)
-Hiraoka Yuta (SP)
Production Credits
Original writing (manga): Gokusen by Morimoto Kozueko (森本梢子)
Screenwriters: Egashira Michiru, Yokota Rie, Matsuda Yuko (松田裕子)
Producer: Kato Masatoshi
Directors: Sato Toya, Otani Taro, Takahashi Naoharu (高橋直治)
Music: Oshima Michiru
The Graduation Special was aired later in March 2003.
