Gokusen: The Movie

Gokusen - The Movie

Synopsis

Based on the popular manga and TV series, Kumiko Yamaguchi aka Yankumi, is a young female teacher given the toughest class in the school. The Class 3D of Akado High School is full of delinquents. Yankumi is not your run-of-the-mill, educator however, she is also the granddaughter of a Yakuza boss, Kuroda of the Kuroda Ikka, and is slated in line to head the family business. Leading a double life, Yankumi tries to teach her students the lessons in life, but also keeping the family secret from the public.

Official Site: NA

Singapore Release Date: 19th November 2009, Thursday

Running Time: 118 minutes

Ratings: PG

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kazuya Kamenashi, Yukie Nakama, Jingi Irie, Mokomichi Hayami, Yuma Ishigaki

Crew: Director (Toya Sato), Writers (Kozueko Morimoto)

The Trailer

The Review

Gokusen: The Movie is based on a Japanese manga, and I believe it’s a movie made to end its third season with a bang.

You can tell so as most of the students in the movie was from Season 3 of the highly popular television drama series.

The movie in a way gave closure to the loopholes for the drama series, and it would be helpful if you have seen the TV series.

Still as a stand-alone movie, it’s like a two hour episode of a TV show where you’ll begin to love the character, a passionate teacher with a hidden double life who tries to impart some important life lessons to her students.

Yamaguchi Kumiko or Yankumi although a teacher, she’s no pushover. When things get rough, her gangster style background steps in and resolve the matter with comedic outcome along the way.

It has of course over the top exaggerated comedy, but that’s typical of any Manga material which is of Kawaii cuteness.

Although the producers tries to rope in more new fans with this production, Gokusen the movie I believe was made strictly for their fans.

The Good

• Plenty of comedy
• The music and sound effects was on cue perfectly
• The girls would love the handsome hunk in the movie, plenty of them

The Bad

• The storyline nothing to rave about
• Typical overused genre of teacher tries to reform bad students
• The Manga book feel didn’t quite totally translate on-screen. There’s a certain lacking to it

Editor’s Ratings