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The Gokusen (TV)

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©Kozueko Morimoto / Shueisha • NTV • VAP


[ adapted from Gokusen (manga) ]

Alternative title:
ごくせん (Japanese)
Genres: comedy, slice of life
Themes: School, Yakuza
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi enters Shirokin Gakuen Private School to become a math teacher. She's assigned as the homeroom teacher for class 2-4, populated by a gang of delinquents. At first, the class tries everything to rattle her cage, but to no avail. In a short period of time, Yankumi gains the respect of the class. But what the school doesn't know is that she's the heir to the Oedo Group, a powerful Yakuza clan. So while Yankumi struggles to excel in her career as a teacher, she must also keep her Yakuza background a secret.
Video:
User Ratings: 477 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 21 votes (sub:12, dub:7, edit.dub:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 67 votes (sub:39, dub:27, Spa.sub:1)
 Very good: 128 votes (sub:83, dub:40, Spa.sub:3, raw:1, ?:1)
 Good: 147 votes (sub:99, dub:42, Spa.sub:3, Rus.sub:1, edit.dub:1, raw:1)
 Decent: 65 votes (sub:40, dub:23, Spa.sub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 21 votes (sub:17, dub:4)
 Not really good: 12 votes (sub:11, raw:1)
 Weak: 10 votes (sub:8, dub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Bad: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
 Awful: 3 votes (dub:3)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 1065 users, rank: #504
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.2295 (Good+.22), std. dev.: 1.5668, rank: #1287
Weighted mean: 7.135 (Good+.13), rank: #1197
Bayesian estimate: 7.1421 (Good+.14), rank: #1035
Running time: 24 minutes
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2004-01-06 to 2004-03-30
2006-06-30 to 2006-07-12 (USA, Encore WAM - The Block)
Opening Theme:
"Honto no Kotoba (My Real Word)" by Foot Stamp
Ending Theme:
"Onoremichi (My Road)" by Aki Yashiro
Official website:
Links: We have 4
Trivia: We have 4
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Related releases:
    Gokusen - The Unteachables (1 DVD 1) 2004-10-12 (from $18.36)
    Gokusen - Kumiko's Way (1 DVD 2) 2004-12-14 (from $22.46)
    Gokusen - Collection (DVD 1-3) 2008-08-05 (from $14.99)
    Gokusen- The Unteachables + Premium (1 DVD 1) 2004-12-30 (from $26.43)
    The Gokusen - Premium Box w/Jacket (DVD) 2005-11-29 (from $44.99)
    The Gokusen - Road to Graduation (1 DVD 3) 2005-02-08 (from $18.36)
    The Gokusen - DVD Economy Pack (DVD 1-3) 2006-07-11 (from $14.96)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Masami Sato

Screenplay: Yasuko Kobayashi

Storyboard:
Masayuki Kojima
Yukiyo Teramoto
Yuzo Sato

Episode Director:
Akane Inoue
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Yukiyo Teramoto
Yuzo Sato

Music: Tomoki Hasegawa

Original Manga: Kozueko Morimoto

Character Design: Yoshinori Kanemori

Art director: Kazuhiro Takahashi

Animation director:
Kunihiko Hamada
Masaru Kitao
Yoshinori Kanemori

Sound director: Satoshi Motoyama

Director of Photography: Takeshi Katsuyama

Producer:
Hiroshi Yamashita
Manabu Tamura
Masao Maruyama

Animation producer: Yoshihiro Murata

Assistant producer: Mikiko Kobayashi

Background Art:
Chizuru Sakata
Emi Nakamura
Rieko Shimizu
Yosuke Nakamura

Clean-Up Animation:
Akiko Ueda
Yoko Miyamoto

Color design: Yuko Kobari

Color Inspection: Harue Yoshida

Color setting: Harue Yoshida

Editing: Satoshi Terauchi

Ending Animation Director: Yoshinori Kanemori

Ending Key Animation: Masahiro Emoto

In-Between Animation:
Akihiko Hayafune
Emi Kaneko
Noriko Irizawa

In-between Inspection: Junko Ono

Key Animation:
Aiko Wakazuki
Eriko Kubokawa
Hidehiko Sawada
Hiroaki Yoshikawa
Hiroshi Shimizu
Hiroyuki Yoshimura
Kayo Ikeda
Kunihiko Hamada
Makoto Yoshimura
Masanori Fujioka
Masaru Kitao
Mayumi Nishimoto
Noboru Takahashi
Satoru Iriyoshi
Satoshi Tazaki
Shigemi Aoyanagi
Shinsuke Hamaura
Shinsuke Kasahara
Tomomi Ishikawa
Wataru Sekimoto
Yasuyuki Suzuki
Yoko Ikekawa
Yuzo Sato

Music Composition: Takamitsu Gotoh

Photography: Yoshihiro Tomita

Planning:
Masahiko Osawa
Mitsuru Ohshima

Special Effects:
Ayumi Arabata
Kumiko Taniguchi

Theme Song Arrangement: Foot Stamp (OP)

Theme Song Lyrics: Takamitsu Gotoh (OP)

Theme Song Performance:
Aki Yashiro (ED)
Foot Stamp (OP)

Video Editing: Shinichi Sugawara

 

Kenichi Suzumura as Shin Sawada

Risa Hayamizu as Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi

Hiroaki Yoshida as Minoru

Hiromi Sugino as Teruo "Kuma" Kumai

Isao Yamagishi as Take Noda

Katsuyuki Konishi as Shinohara

Keiji Hirai as Tetsu Asakura

Norio Wakamoto as Kyotaro Oshima

Seizo Katou as Fuji

Takurou Nakakuni as Youichi Minami

Yoichi Masukawa as Haruhiko "Uchi" Uchiyama

Chafurin as Aramaki

Akio Nojima as Sawada's Father

Atsushi Imaruoka as Ohashi

Chihiro Suzuki as Kudo

Chikao Ohtsuka as Ryuichiro

Eri Satou as Sayuri

Haru Sato as Wakamatsu

Hideo Watanabe as
Hachida-sensei
Hatta

Hiroki Shimowada as Ichikawa (ep 7)

Hisanori Koyatsu as Iwamoto

Ikkei Seta as Nekomata

Keiji Hirai as 2nd Year Student B

Ken Uosaki as Vice-principal

Makoto Yasumura as
Chinpira
Haraguchi
Sonomura
Toda

Mugihito as Chairman

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Carlos

Rica Matsumoto as Shizuka Fujiyama

Ryusaku Chijiwa as Amuro

Shigueru Mogi as Ishizuka

Shin Yasumura as 3rd Year Student A

Tadahisa Saizen as Tsuruta

Takahiro Fujimoto as
Student
Tanaka

Takahiro Mizushima as Katsushita

Tarou Masuoka as Professor of Comedy

Tatsuo Suzuki as 3rd Year Student C

Tomohiro Nishimura as Principal

Wataru Hatano as Kamei-sensei

Wataru Takagi as Miyata

Wotoya Kawano as Kakita

Yasuhiro Fujiwara as
2nd Year Student A
Chinpira
Nakanishi

Youji Ueda as Koda

Yuko Yano as Yasue

Eguchi Katsushiro Toyokawa

Japanese companies 

Animation: Madhouse Studios

Broadcaster: NTV

Clean-Up Animation:
Dr. Movie
Kyung Kang ANIA
Studio Orange
Studio Step

Finish Animation: Studio Jack

In-Between Animation:
Dr. Movie
Studio CATS
Studio Orange

Key Animation:
Kyung Kang ANIA
Studio Wonbat

Music Production:
Columbia Music Entertainment (ED)
VAP

Production:
NTV
VAP

Sound Production: Omnibus Promotion

Video Editing: Q-Tec

English cast 
English staff 

Director: Dan Green

Art director: Merideth Mulroney

Translation: Yuki Urakawa

Executive producer: John Sirabella

Producer: Michael Sinterniklaas

DVD Author: Stephen Poole

Editing:
Justin Kim
Naneen Paglieri

Engineer: Jason Cushing

Mixing: Alexa Zimmerman

Post-Production Manager: Scott Marchfeld

Production Coordination: Frank Pannone

Production Supervision: Sean Molyneaux

Script Adaptation: Dan Green

Subtitling: Nagisa Wada

Translation Manager: Anna Yamamoto

Caroline Lawson as Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi

Kevin T. Collins as Shin Sawada

Addie Blaustein as Tetsu Asakura

Ed Paul as Teruo "Kuma" Kumai

Jamie McGonnigal as Haruhiko "Uchi" Uchiyama

John Avner as Fuji

Matt Kaplan as Take Noda

Peter Ganim as Kyotaro Oshima

Sean Schemmel as Minoru

Sebastian Arcelus as Youichi Minami

Addie Blaustein as Nekomata

Ben McQuail as Kamei

Carol Jacobanis as Yasue

Dan Green as
Kakita Clanmember
Kinoshita
Mongoose Leader
Ohashi
Police Officer
Principal
Ryuichiro Kuroda
Senior C
Student B
Troublemaker

David Moo as Sawada's Father

Ed Napier as Eguchi

Ed Paul as Tenkai 2

Erica Schroeder as
Girl
Nurse
Sayuri

Jeff Wills as Senior

Jefferey M. Bender as Security Guard

Jimmy Zoppi as
Kakita
Principal

John Abernathe as
Amuro
Father

Jonathan D. Boggs as
Board Director
Student

Josh Mosby as
Miyata
Shinohara

Marc Diraison as
Bad Boy 1
Senior B
Senior C
Vice Principal

Marc Shanahan as Tenkai 1

Marc Thompson as
Haraguchi
Ichiro Tsuruta
Student

Matt Kaplan as
Habu
Senior A
Senior B

Michael Sinterniklaas as
Ichikawa
Ishizuka
Sonomura
Tanaka

Michael Alston Baley as
Chairman
Detective
Nakanishi
Professor of Comedy

Michal Meadows as
Hostess
Mother
School Girl
School Girl A

Mike Pollock as Kouzou Wakamatsu

Sean Schemmel as Kohei Iwamoto

Sean Elias Reyes as
Bad Boy 2
Carlos
Junior B
Koda
Student
Student of Fujiyama
Toda

Suzanne Gilad as
School Girl C
Shizuka Fujiyama

Tiffany Randol as School Girl B

Tom Wayland as
Junior A
Kudo
Principal
Senior A

Wayne Grayson as Student A

English companies 

ADR Production: NYAV Post

Broadcaster:
Animax-asia (Asia)
Encore Action
Encore WAM

Distributor: AnimeWorks

Licensed by: Media Blasters

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: Benoit Du Pac

ADR Script:
Joffrey Grodidier
Laurence Duseyau
Sabrina Boyer

ADR Co-ordination:
Jean-Yves Rigaud
Sandrine Ringuière

Recording engineer: Benjamin Cabaj

 

Marie Diot as Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi

Yannick Debain as Shin Sawada

Benjamin Pascal as Haruhiko "Uchi" Uchiyama

Didier Cherbuy as Fuji

Eric Chevallier as Teruo "Kuma" Kumai

Laurent Le Doyen as Shinohara

Luc Boulad as Tetsu Asakura

Nicolas Djermag as Take Noda

Pascal Nowak as Kyotaro Oshima

Thierry Monfray as Minoru

Yann Pichon as Youichi Minami

Anatole Thibault as Toda

Audrey Schecroun as Elève

Benoit Dupac as Kudo

Benoit Du Pac as Kudo

Cyrille Monge as Iwamoto

Frédéric Cerdal as Ryuichiro Kuroda

Léa Gabriele as Yasue

Luc Boulad as Adjoint du Proviseur

Marie Zidi as Shizuka Fujiyama

Nathalie Bienaime as Infirmière

Olivia Dutron as Sayuri

Philippe Roullier as
Aramaki
Tsuruta

Romain Altché as Terada

Thierry Mercier as Kôzo Wakamatsu

Yann Peira as Iida

French companies 

Distributor:
IDP Home Video Music
Taifu video

Dubbing: Midisync

 
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