45 minSeason 3 • Episode 11
LatestIt's almost time for the finals, and class 3-D is determined not to fail in order to have a great summer break. Apart from that, they also have to avoid expulsion by not getting into any more trouble, but that appears unlikely when Goda is on the loose again. Swearing vengeance, he raids Akadou Academy and gravely injures Kazama, leading to immense chaos that seems impossible to stop, even for Yankumi herself.
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.
Acting
Yukie Nakama's perfect switch from sweet teacher to terrifying yakuza glare.
Writing
Somehow makes gangster hierarchy lessons actually heartwarming.
Creator
Kozueko Morimoto
Yukie Nakama
Kumiko Yamaguchi
Katsuhisa Namase
Goro Sawatari
Haruma Miura
Ren Kazama
Yuya Takaki
Yamato Ogata
Kenji Anan
Hiro Wakamatsu
Junta Nakama
Rikiya Ichimura
Shohei Miura
Shunsuke Kamiya
Ken Kaneko
Tetsu Asakura
Ken Utsui
Ryuichiro Kuroda
Mikihisa Azuma
Seiga Baba
Hideo Ishiguro
Kengo Honjo
Akito Kiriyama
Satoru Kuraki
Jutta Yuki
Murayama Jutta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gokusen helped popularize the 'ore-sama teacher' trope—authority figures who are secretly more dangerous than the punks they manage. The 2002 timing rode the wave of yakuza films getting domesticated for mainstream audiences.
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