Gokusen
Gokusen
TV ShowEnded

Gokusen

7.9 / 10
2002
3 seasons
33 episodes
DramaComedy

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.

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  • A zealous teacher goes on a rampage

    1.A zealous teacher goes on a rampage

    10.0
    17-04-200260m

    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, Yam...

  • Don't abandon your friend

    2.Don't abandon your friend

    8.0
    24-04-200245m

    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 th...

  • Don't judge only by appearance

    3.Don't judge only by appearance

    8.0
    01-05-200245m

    A serial purse-snatcher is targeting women in the neighborhood near Shirokin High School, and Uchiyama, one of the students in Class 3-D, is a prime suspect. Determined to prove Uc...

  • If you fail, start over

    4.If you fail, start over

    8.0
    08-05-200245m

    Yamaguchi's fellow teacher Shizuka, who teaches English, is also working nights at a club in the Ginza district. One of Shizuka's students, Noda, who has developed a crush on her,...

  • To fight is different from violence

    5.To fight is different from violence

    9.0
    15-05-200245m

    Sawada finds Yankumi's lost phone and sets out to return it. In doing so, he ends up in a house filled with Yakuza and learns the truth about Yankumi's family from her grandfather....

  • Don't let bullying get to you

    6.Don't let bullying get to you

    9.0
    22-05-200245m

    It's time for Shirokin High School's annual sports tournament, and the initially reluctant students of class 3-D have been goaded into participation by dismissive remarks from the...

  • Believe in your own child

    7.Believe in your own child

    9.0
    29-05-200245m

    Yankumi is struggling through parent-teacher conferences, but when it's time for Sawada's meeting, his parents don't show up. Later, he receives a visit from a girl who turns out t...

  • Aren't you his mother

    8.Aren't you his mother

    8.0
    05-06-200245m

    Because of Shin's scary story, Yankumi is scared to walk alone to the school hallway. One time she left her phone and thinks that someone was following her only to find out that it...

  • Don't blame others for your own mistakes

    9.Don't blame others for your own mistakes

    12-06-200245m

    Yankumi is happy for class 3-D will be hosting a volleyball tournament however they will not the playing.Yankumi thought of something to make them participate and thought of formin...

  • I'll believe my own students

    10.I'll believe my own students

    19-06-200245m

    Everyone is lovelorn that day. 3-D went to a group date wearing formal clothes to keep the fact that they are from Shirokin but soon was revealed. Yankumi saw her long time crush w...

  • No one is alone

    11.No one is alone

    26-06-200245m

    As usual, Yankumi was called for her students got involved with cops but this time in a positive way. The 3-D became heroes and for some reason, Yankumi gave so much attention of h...

  • Goodbye, Yankumi

    12.Goodbye, Yankumi

    03-07-200245m

    FInally the magazine stating Yankumi's back ground came out and made a lot of commotions. Yankumi was forced to resign but she doesn't want to. The students on the other hand were...

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