Gokusen 2

Details

Title: ごくせん２
Title (romaji): Gokusen 2
Format: Renzoku
Genre: School, Comedy
Episodes: 10 + 1 Special
Viewership ratings: 27.8% (not including SP)
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2005-Jan-15 to 2005-Mar-19 and 2005-Oct-08 (SP)
Air time: Saturday 21:00
Theme song: No More Cry by D-51 / Kizuna by Kamenashi Kazuya (insert song)
Related TV shows: Gokusen

Synopsis

The continuation of the popular Gokusen series.

Half a year has 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 (Yankumi / Ojou / Koumichou) (Math Teacher)
Namase Katsuhisa as Sawatari Goro (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
Ryoukuni Hiroshi (両國宏) as Sugawara Makoto
Kamenashi Kazuya as Odagiri Ryu
Akanishi Jin as Yabuki Hayato
Hayami Mokomichi as Tsuchiya Hikaru
Koike Teppei as Takeda Keita
Koide Keisuke as Hyuuga Kosuke
Otoha as Shiratori Hitomi (English Teacher)
Sakai Toshiya as Inuzaka Taichi (Japanese Language Teacher)
Moto Fuyuki as Kameyama Takashi (Ethics Teacher)
Magii as Inomata Shinji (Chemistry Teacher)
Ikeda Yukiko (池田有希子) as Wanibuchi Sayuri (Music Teacher)
Azuma Mikihisa as Baba Seiga (PE Teacher)
Inoue Jun as Kurokawa Ginji (Chairman of Kurogin High School)
Tanihara Shosuke as Kujo Takuma (Teacher in Momo Girls High School)
Waki Tomohiro as "Kuma" / Kumai Teruo (Former student of Yankumi)

Class 3D

Kawamura Yousuke as Akiyama Yousuke
Mizutani Momosuke as Oomori Momosuke
Sato Yuki as Kojima Yuki
Sato Yusuke as Sakaguchi Yuusuke
Satou Takeshi (佐藤タケシ) as Sasaki Takeshi
Tanaka Rinnosuke (田中鈴之助) as Takayama Rinnosuke
Nakauchi Hiroyuki (中内啓行) as Nagata Hiroyuki
Watanabe Ryuuhei (渡辺竜平) as Hashimoto Ryuuhei
Takahashi ?? (高橋疾士) as Fujinami 藤波疾士
Ishizaka Shinnosuke (石坂慎之介) as Hoshino Shinnosuke
Mizushima Hiro as Misawa Hiro
Shibata Masashi as Ookuma Masashi
Nakamura Yuichi as Kawata Yuuichi
Ojima Naoya (尾嶋直哉) as Kohashi Naoya
Tomikawa Kazuto (富川一人) as Sakuraba Kazuto
奥林源水 as 高田源水
Kuranuki Masahiro as Tamura Masahiro
Okamoto Masaru (岡本勝) as Nakamura Masaru
Sugiura Takumi (杉浦匠) as Hamaguchi Takumi
Kora Kengo as Funaki Kengo
Kaneda Yoshiaki (金田慶哲) as Maeda Yoshiaki
Miura Ryosuke as Mutou Ryousuke

Guests

Kobayashi Katsuya as Kudo (Former student of Kurogin, ep3&10)
Takasugi Wataru (高杉亘) as Onijima (Police Officer, ep3&10)
Yamazaki Hajime as Ishikawa (Tsuchiya's former Junior High Teacher, ep4)
Akimoto Miri (秋本未莉) as Miyazaki Nao (Junior high student, ep4)
Wakatsuki Chinatsu as Mizushima Maki (Momo Girls High School, ep5)
Takasugi Mizuho as Okudera (Sokei University, ep5)
Tezuka Satomi as Hyuuga Haruyo (Hyuuga Kosuke's mother, ep6)
Ogi Shigemitsu as Tatsumi (Gambling bar owner, ep6)
Ogawa Naoya (小川直也) as Tanabe (Tadoroki High School, ep7)
Naitou Takashi as Yabuki Hirofumi (Hayato's father, ep8)
Ishiguro Hideo as Yabuki Taku (Hayato's brother, ep8)
Sunaga Senjuu (須永千重) as Kumai Masako (Kuma's mother, ep8)
Uemura Miki (植村美紀) as Kumai Aya (Kuma's younger sister, ep8)
Ogawa Tomoe (小川智永) as Kumai Haruo (Kuma's younger brother, ep8)
Takuma Shin as Odagiri Shinya (Odagiri Ryu's father, ep9)
Nagano Satomi (長野里美) as Odagiri Yuriko (Odagiri Ryu's mother, ep9)
Sakata Tadashi (坂田聡) as Kashiwagi Yutaka (Police Officer from Gokusen, only his picture in ep9)

Production Credits

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

Episode Information

Title

Ep 01: 「たった一度の高校生活、無駄にするな! …あの熱血教師が帰ってきた!!」
Ep 02: 「人の強さは力じゃ決まらない、人にはもっと大切なものがある。」
Ep 03: 「お前らは私の大事な生徒だ!! 見捨てるもんか」
Ep 04: 「自分の人生、人と比べんな!」
Ep 05: 「大事なのは、心の強さだ!!」
Ep 06: 「親の気持ちをもっと考えろ!!」
Ep 07: 「自分の人生と真剣に向き合え」
Ep 08: 「私はずっとお前たちの先公だ」
Ep 09: 「父と息子涙の絆…」
Ep 10: 「胸張って卒業しろ!! ヤンクミと3年D組、涙の別れ」

Viewership Ratings

Ep 01: 26.5%
Ep 02: 26.9%
Ep 03: 27.0%
Ep 04: 25.3%
Ep 05: 27.1%
Ep 06: 27.3%
Ep 07: 27.4%
Ep 08: 30.0%
Ep 09: 28.2%
Ep 10: 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. If you take a look around the classroom during episode 10, you can see a lot of cartoons of Yankumi. There's some at her podium, board, left side of wall when facing class, and the wall right behind the students as you are facing them.
The insert song was sung by Kamenashi Kazuya of KAT-TUN

Awards

44th Television Drama Academy Awards : Best Drama
44th Television Drama Academy Awards : Best Actress (Nakama Yukie)
44th Television Drama Academy Awards : Best Supporting Actor (Kamenashi Kazuya)

External Links

Summer 2004	NTV	Spring 2005
Nurseman ga Yuku	Saturday 21:00	Ruri no Shima