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• Actors: Namase Katsuhisa, Utsui Ken, Anan Kenji, Kaneko Ken, Uchiyama Shinji Nakama Yukie
• Subtitles: English, Mandarin Chinese
• Region: All Regions
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0021ABUV0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,618 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Synopsis: Part I. The story of a young, idealistic teacher who enters Shirokin Gakuen with hopes of making a difference in the students' lives. However, Yamaguchi Kumiko is in for a rude awakening when she finds that she will be the homeroom teacher of 3-D, the hardest class to maintain in the school. The students have multi-colored hair, sloppy uniforms, and show absolutely no respect to her. The leader of the class, Sawada Shin is lazy but bright and shows some interest in Yamaguchi when he notices that she is very different from other teachers. The students try to bully her to make her quit, but their attempts don't get them very far. Part II. Half a year has passed and Shirokin Gakuen has closed down. Yamaguchi Kumiko 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. Part III. Sawatari Goro now works at Akado High School as a vice principal. Although the head director of the school board speficically orders him to handle the problematic class 3-D, the students are just too much for him. So Sawatari goes far away to a southern island to search for Yankumi, and convince her to work for Akado. Yankumi accepts the offer, only to find that her class (again) is full of punks, where two rival groups of students are always at each other's throats. Will Yankumi's strong belief in students and teaching work this time?

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great series, &$^#&$ DVDs..., October 4, 2009

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Michael Valdivielso (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2008 Japanese Drama : Gokusen (I + II + III) w/ English Subtitle (DVD)

No, that is not a typo. The story itself is fine. Teacher is teaching the worse male students. Has to cover the fact that she is a member of a gangster family. That is the main plot of all three seasons and it is pretty funny. I have the anime and have been reading the translations of the online manga. But...
The subtitles of the first season suck. Badly. The farther you get into the season the worse they get.
Then you hit the second season and things got strange. What was translated was pretty well done. The subtitles, when they were there, were OK. But sometimes there was no subtitles and the timing was bad. Subtitles would be for the scene before or after the scene you were watching. Or a whole scene would go on without one subtitle. That does not sound so bad BUT the second season DVDs also started to skip, freeze, or could not be read at all by my DVD player or my Playstation 2. I tried both to see if it may have been the DVD player itself. True, the second season DVDs have take outs and extras, but even those had bad subtitles.
And the third season was all those problems combined. I had problems getting around the menu and in fact I had to skip episodes. I gave up on the final episode because I refused to waste any more time and energy on it. I doubt it was any different from the last two final episodes anyway.
Find the episodes online - they always have better subtitles because fans are willing to work at it for other fans. Make sure to give them support and, sometimes, some funding. DO NOT BUY THESE DVDS.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Subtitles!, January 31, 2010

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S. Kunz (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2008 Japanese Drama : Gokusen (I + II + III) w/ English Subtitle (DVD)

I watched season 1 of Gokusen online, and I really enjoyed it (Matsumoto Jun and Oguri Shun...plus a few other recognizable actors and actresses ;p). I wanted a copy for myself so that I could watch it at my leisure, so I bought this product. Two words: TERRIBLE SUBTITLES! And I mean TERRIBLE. No English-speaking individual, whether it is their first or second or third language, speaks such poor English. I understand some Japanese, so I can figure out what's going on, but what's the point of suffering through it all? I was not able to enjoy this product at all. I bought an original copy on eBay, and the English subtitles on that product are great. If you want a quality product, buy Gokusen on eBay. Seriously.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice Cover, Bad Subs, January 7, 2011

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This review is from: 2008 Japanese Drama : Gokusen (I + II + III) w/ English Subtitle (DVD)

I don't know if this product comes the same distributor, but the English subs are really bad, and if so ALL the sellers should notify potential buyers. The video quality is good on most of the disks and delivery was quick. If you don't need the subs its a good deal for three seasons.