from the golden age of prestige TV, Gokusen is currently streaming in Australia on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, and in the US on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video with a 8/10 audience score that speaks for itself. 33 episodes — the right length to tell the story it's telling.
Gokusen does what great comedies rarely manage — it's actually funny, consistently, across the whole run. 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. Yukie Nakama and Katsuhisa Namase lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. The series ran for 3 seasons (2002–2008), building a story that gave its audience time to invest properly.
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