Gokusen 2

Details

Title: ごくせん２ / Gokusen 2
Episodes: 10 plus Special
Genre: School, Comedy
Air time:
Viewership: 27.8% (not including SP)
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2005-01-15 to 2005-03-19 (ep1-10), and 2005-10-08 (SP)
Theme Song: "No More Cry" by D-51
Insert Song: "Kizuna" by KAT-TUN
Related Drama: Gokusen

Synopsis

The continuation of the popular Gokusen series. Several years have passed and Shirokin Gakuen has closed down. Yamaguchi Kumiko (Nakama Yukie) finds herself a teacher of a few young kids who don't really benefit much from her style of teaching. Through some twist of fate, she is offered a job as a teacher in Kurogin Gakuen.

She becomes the teacher of a delinquent 3D class which make her previous students look like angels. In order to protect her job, she must again hide her true identity - the fact that she is the 4th generation of the Oedo Family, a prominent yakuza group.

Cast

Nakama Yukie as Yamaguchi Kumiko (25)
Utsui Ken as Kuroda Ryuichiro (73)
Kaneko Ken as Asakura Tetsu (29)
Uchiyama Shinji as Tatsukawa Minoru (25)
Anan Kenji as Wakamatsu Kozo (45)
Waki Tomohiro as Kumai Teruo aka Kuma (20)
Namase Katsuhisa as Vice Principal Sawatari Goro (48)
Kamenashi Kazuya as Odagiri Ryu (17)
Akanishi Jin as Yabuki Hayato (18)
Hayami Mokomichi as Tsuchiya Hikaru (18)
Koike Teppei as Takeda Keita (18)
Koide Keisuke as Hyuuga Kosuke (17)
Tanihara Shosuke as Kujo Takuma (30)
Azuma Mikihisa as Baba Seiga (35)
Otoha as Shiratori Hitomi (23)
Inoue Jun as Chairman Kurokawa Ginji (58)
Saki Toshiya as Inuzaka Taichi (42)
Moto Fuyuki as Kameyama Takashi (48)
Magii as Inomata Shinji (34)
Ikeda Yukiko as Wanibuchi Sayuri (37)

Production Credits

Producer: Kato Masatoshi (加藤正俊)
Director: 佐藤東彌, Oya Taro (大谷太郎), Takahashi Naoharu (高橋直治)
Screenwriter: Egashira Michiru, 橫田理惠, Matsuda Yuuko (松田裕子)
Music: Oshima Michiru (大島ミチル)

Episode Ratings

Ep 1: 26.5%
Ep 2: 26.9%
Ep 3: 27%
Ep 4: 25.4%
Ep 5: 27.1%
Ep 6: 27.3%
Ep 7: 27.4%
Ep 8: 30%
Ep 9: 28.2%
Ep10: 32.5%
SP: 25.1%

Trivia

Season 2 was aired last January-March 2005, 2 years and 6 months after the first season and 1 year and 9 months after the special. Some of the original cast were retained. Like Yankumi's family(her grandpa, Wakamatsu, Minoru, Tetsu & Shigeru), Vice Principal and of course the only remaining student of Yankumi in season 1, Kumai Teruo aka KUMA.
The insert song was song by Kamenashi Kazuya of KAT-TUN

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