Gokusen 2

Season 2
* Episodes: 10 + 1 Special
* Viewership rating: 27.8% (not including SP)
* Broadcast period: 2005-Jan-15 to 2005-Mar-19
o SP: 2005-Oct-08
* Air time: Saturday 21:00
* Theme song: No More Cry by D-51 / Kizuna by Kamenashi Kazuya (insert song)

Synopsis

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 / Kumichou) (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
* Ryogoku Hiroshi 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 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 Yosuke as Akiyama Yosuke
* Mizutani Momosuke as Oomori Momosuke
* Sato Yuki as Kojima Yuki
* Sato Yusuke as Sakaguchi Yusuke
* Sato Takeshi (佐藤タケシ) as Sasaki Takeshi
* Tanaka Suzunosuke (田中鈴之助) as Takayama Suzunosuke
* Nakauchi Hiroyuki (中内啓行) as Nagata Hiroyuki
* Watanabe Ryuuhei as Hashimoto Ryuhei
* Takahashi Toshio (高橋疾士) as Fujinami Toshio
* Ishizaka Shinnosuke (石坂慎之介) as Hoshino Shinnosuke
* Mizushima Hiro as Misawa Hiro
* Shibata Masashi as Ookuma Masashi
* Nakamura Yuichi as Kawata Yuichi
* Ojima Naoya as Kohashi Naoya
* Tomikawa Kazuhito as Sakuraba Kazuhito
* Okubayashi Gensui (奥林源水) as Takada Gensui
* 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
* Kei as Maeda Kei
* Miura Ryosuke as Mutou Ryosuke

Guests

* Imai Yuki as Daisuke (ep1)
* Kobayashi Katsuya as Kudo (Former student of Kurogin, ep3&10)
* Takasugi Ko as Onijima (Police Officer, ep3&10)
* Yamazaki Hajime as Ishikawa (Tsuchiya's former Junior High Teacher, ep4)
* Akimoto Miri 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)
* Namioka Kazuki as Tanabe (ep7)
* 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 Chie (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 Tomonaga (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 as Kashiwagi Yutaka (Police Officer from Gokusen, only his picture in ep9)

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

Recognitions

* 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)