The continuation of the popular Gokusen series. Several years have 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 Ooedo Family, a prominent yakuza group.
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jun Inoue …. Kurokawa (Principal)
Ken Kaneko …. Tetsu Asakura
Fuyuki Moto …. Takashi Kameyama
Katsuhisa Namase …. Goro Saruwatari
Mizuho Takasugi …. Okudera
Shinji Uchiyama …. Minoru Tatsukawa
Eiji Wentz …. Masato Yuki

Yukie Nakama ....  Kumiko Yamaguchi 
Kazuya Kamenashi ....  Ryu Odagiri 
Jin Akanishi ....  Hayato Yabuki 
Teppei Koike ....  Keita Takeda 
Mokomichi Hayami ....  Hikaru Tsuchiya 
Keisuke Koide ....  Kosuke Hyuga 
Ken Utsui ....  Ryuichiro Kuroda 
Mikihisa Azuma ....  Masayoshi Baba 
Otoha ....  Hitomi Shiratori 
Shosuke Tanihara ....  Takuma Kujo

Nakama Yukie plays the character of Yamaguchi Kumiko, a self-righteous high school teacher who wants to make her mark on the Japanese educational system. Unfortunately, the school she teaches has its share of troublemakers. But fortunately, she’s trained to handle them because her secret life in the past was that she was a membr of a major crime syndicate. Nakazawa plays her confidante, a kindergarden teacher. Matsumoto is the leader of a gang of problem kids. Sawamura Kazuki plays a love interest.

TV Synopsis: Newly graduated Kumiko Yamaguchi wants to make
her mark on the Japanese educational system as a teacher.
All well and good until she finds out that the school she’ll
be teaching at has its fair share of troublemakers and rabble-
rousers. The ruffians at the school don’t frighten her though for she has a secret of her own-she’s a fourth generation crime syndicate member and next in line to head it up. She’s gone straight and wants to be a teacher though, but she’s one person in whose class you don’t want to be caught fooling around!

Two popular sequels focusing on heroes with secret identities are back.

Gokusen (Saturdays, 9 p.m. on the NTV network) starts Jan. 15 and features
Yukie Nakama as the granddaughter of a yakuza. She passes for a demure high
school teacher during the day and only displays her dazzling martial arts
skills when the kids are real, real bad.

STARRING: Nakama Yukie, Itoh Misaki, Namase Katsuhisa, Kaneko Ken, Sawamura Kazuki, Utsui Ken, Matsumoto Jun (Arashi), Sawamura Ikki, Oguri Shun, Ishigaki Yuma, Narimiya Hiroki, Waki Tomohiro and Nakazawa Yuko.
THEME SONG: “Feel Your Breeze” by V6
NETWORK: NTV
DURATION: April through June 2002. Second Series: January through March 2005.

Left alone on a trip to Hong Kong, Tomoko finds herself the victim of a purse-snatching. The police arrest the man she points out, but it turns out to be the wrong person: a young Korean man named Ji Hoon. Despite his anger and humiliation, he takes her out to dinner since she has lost all her money, and in return she agrees to model for his amateur film. What follows is a magical and romantic two days. Upon returning to their respective countries, Tomoko must return to her nine to five job and Ji Hoon must resume studying to join the family business rather than pursuing his dream of becoming a film director. But soon the two begin to email each other and rekindle their relationship despite the distance and obstacles between them. Marking the very first time in television history that a drama has been co-produced between Japan and South Korea, the story shows us that love has no borders.

Cast:
Korean
Kim Ji-Hoon – Won Bin
Park Kyoung-Joo – Lee Dong-Geon
Park Hye-Jin – Park Hae-Jin
Asai Tomoko – Fukada Kyoko
Yamagishi Yuko – Yada Akiko
Kaneda Midori – Toda Naho
Sakamaki Shota – Ozawa Yukiyoshi
Asai Satoko – Takeshita Keiko

Japanese

Kasumi is shocked to discover that her older sister’s fiancee is the man she first fell in love with five years ago in high school. At the time, he was her high school teacher and ultimately quit his job racked with guilt over their relationship. Kasumi was deeply hurt and struggled for a long time to overcome her sadness. Now the two of them must come to terms with their secret past before the ones they care about in the present are hurt.

Cast: Fukada Kyoko, Watabe Atsuro, Wakui Emi, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Ono Takehiko, Omori Akemi, Kuga Yoko, Kondo Yoshimasa, Uehara Misa, Ichinohe Nami, Naito Yoko, Uchida Asahi, Amano Hironari, Mano Yuuko, Serizawa Meijin, Nishiyama Mayuko, Mita Atsuko, Sato Jiro.
THEME SONG: “Sakura Drops” by Utada Hikaru
NETWORK: Fuji TV
DURATION: April through July 2002

A True Love Story turned into bestselling novel created from the Internet BBS, 2channel to Blockbuster Hit Movie (starring Yamada Takayuki & Nakatani Miki). Itoh Misaki and Itoh Atsushi will play the leading characters in this drama. Itoh Misaki plays Aoyama Saori who is an OL in a MNC who got into trouble with a drunkard on a train and is saved by Yamada Takeshi (Itoh Atsushi). As a form of appreciation, she sends him a Hermes teacup. And having no experience with the opposite sex, Takeshi decides to ask for help on the Net BBS, 2 channel on how to interact with Saori.

Cast
Itoh Misaki as 青山沙織 (25)
Itoh Atsushi as 山田剛司 (23)
Shiraishi Miho as 陣釜美鈴 (26)
Sato Eriko as 沢崎果歩 (25)
Sudo Risa as 観月裕子 (30)
Hayami Mokomichi as 青山啓介(23)
Sato Jiro as 黑木文人(40)
Maekawa Yasuyuki as 及川尚人(28)
Horikita Maki as 山田葵 (17)
Koide Saori as 武田花梨 (17)
Gekidan Hitori as 松永勇作(30)
Oguri Shun as 皆本宗孝 (25)
Rokkaku Seiji as 牛島貞雄(38)
Nukumizu Youichi as 一坂進(40)
Gashuin Tatsuya as 富永(40)
Yamazaki Shigenori as 淺野真平(29)
Toyohara Kosuke as 桜井和哉 (38)
Akiyoshi Kumiko as 青山由紀 (48)
Sakurai Chizu as 橋爪涼子 (25)
Kishibe Shiroo as 山田恒生(48)
Sugawara Eiji as 川本信二(27)
Nasubi
Nomizu Iori
Tamura Tagame

After graduating from the Tokyo University School of Law, Tamiya Makoto (Matsushima Nanako) goes on to Harvard University where she earns an MBA. She later works at one of the “big three” networks in the United States as a news reporter. While covering a story on an international symposium in Paris, Makoto is scouted to work for JBC Television in Japan. The news producer at JBC wants to use Makoto to help raise low viewer ratings. He persuades her to work for him for an absurdly high salary, and also gives her the right to hire who she needs.

While Makoto is being brought in to be the savior of the News Department, one man gets transferred from the Variety Department. His name is Nagase Hiromi (Fukuyama Masaharu). Since joining JBC Television, all he has done is variety programs. Although Hiromi has done everything he possibly could to ensure his programs are a success, his boss just could not take anymore of Hiromi’s behavior which ranged from getting caught up in scandals with female television personalities, punching-out assistant directors, to taking kickbacks from production companies. His boss finally tells Hiromi to make a fresh start in the “hard nosed” News Department.

So now the News Department has Makoto who thinks high ratings are the meaning of life, and Hiromi who values the success of a program as just a tool for the full enjoyment of life. These two totally different personalities mix it up and somehow reach a mutual understanding, creating a delightful “light comedy” for adults.

Cast
Matsushima Nanako as Tamiya Makoto
Fukuyama Masaharu as Nagase Hiromi
Watanabe Ikkei as Kuze Teruhiko
Yashima Norito as Towatari Kantaro
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Kote Hiroshi
Shiraishi Miho as Shirai Yukino
Nagai Masaru as Yamamoto Takeshi
Suzuki Papaiya as Kacchin
Fukaura Kanako as Akiyama Fujiko
Kodama Kiyoshi as Sakuragi Kyoichiro
Shimizu Shogo as Tamaru Reishi
Shiga Kotaro as Tsurumaki Yukio
Yamamoto Ryuuji as Sakamoto Daisuke
Morishita Tetsuo as Todo Seichi
Okada Tadashi

Kyoko, a young woman with an unhindered spirit despite being physically bound to a wheelchair due to illness, and Shuji, a stylish and popular fashion magazine hairstylist, are brought together in a fateful traffic incident. Despite their confrontational meeting, they soon find themselves falling in love, with Shuji drawn to her courage and enthusiasm and Kyoko attracted to his ability to look beyond her physical limitations and into her heart. However, Kyoko’s protective older brother and her worsening condition begin to test the bounds of their love for each other and threaten to end their beautiful life together.

cast
Kimura Takuya
Tokiwa Takako
Ikeuchi Hiroyuki
Watabe Atsuro
Mizuno Miki
Matoba Koji
Nishikawa Takanori
Hara Chiaki

A drama about a man and woman who come to know true love after unexpected circumstances cause them to live under the same roof. Singer and songwriter Tamaki Koji returns to acting after a 8 year hiatus, to star opposite Kanno Miho in this drama. Koji plays a very kind policeman; a champion of the weak and a pacifist. Having lost his wife 4 years earlier, he has been saddled with the arduous task of raising 3 children singlehandedly. Kanno stars as the unfortunate heroine with an ugly personality who grows through her encounters with this good natured middle aged man.

Tamaki Koji as Kataoka Yuji
Kanno Miho as Matsuda Yoko aka Ai
Narimiya Hiroki as Yaginuma Yusuke
Kohinata Fumiyo as Iitsuka Hideki
Wakui Emi as Enomoto Fusako
Sato Kazuya as Kataoka Dai
Yamauchi Nana as Kataoka Aki
Watanabe Hatahito as Kataoka Jun
Anan Kenji as Mizoguchi
Kishida Kyoko as Makino Hideko
Kurokawa Mei

Japan and Korea’s biggest names star in this big-scale drama. Yutaka Takenouchi portrays Sho Nishijima, a Japanese detective whose father was murdered in Korea when he was still a boy. In hopes of discovering the truth behind his father’s death, Sho is working undercover in a huge secret organization. Choi Ji Woo portrays Choi Yuna, a Korean woman who visits Japan in search of her missing father. She opens a Korean restaurant with her younger sister, but soon faces the mercy of fate. The couple meets in a corner of Tokyo and fall in love. But what waits ahead of them A “rondo” of fate, love, and history is about to begin.

Cast
Takenouchi Yutaka
Choi Ji Woo
Kimura Yoshino
Ishibashi Ryo
Sato Ryuta
Hayami Mokomichi
Ichikawa Yui
Hashizume Isao
Sugiura Naoki
Shiomi Sansei
Fubuki Jun
Okamoto Rei
Shin Hyun Joon
Lee Jung Hyun
Morishita Chisato
Wentz Eiji
Becky
Hirata M