Gokusen 3 ごくせん （第3期） (2008)

Synopsis

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?

Gokusen 2 ごくせん （第2期） (2005)

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.

Gokusen ごくせん (第１期) (2002)

Synopsis

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. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it. Eventually in the story, the students found out that she is different from other teacher and earned their respects. They called her Yankumi...

Dragon Zakura ドラゴン桜 (2005)

Synopsis

Sakuragi Kenji is a destitute lawyer and one-time member of a motorcyle gang trying to guide failing high school students with an average score of 36 into Japan's most prestigious educational institution, Tokyo University (Toudai).

"If you want to change your life, get into Toudai!"

Yankee-kun To Megane-Chan ヤンキー君とメガネちゃん (2010)

Synopsis

Shinagawa Daichi used to be a good student who has now become a delinquent, while class president Adachi Hana was a delinquent who is now trying to move on. Her secret is discovered by Shinagawa, but she involves herself trying to correct his ways.

Sotsu Uta 卒うた (2010)

Synopsis

March is graduation season.

Parting with the one you love, becoming disheartened from a broken dream, bereavement from your loved one…

In life, one will always encounter a wall that they must overcome.

When you are able to conquer that wall, that is the essence of ‘graduation’ in life.

Taisetsu Na Koto Wa Subete Kimi Ga Oshiete Kureta 大切なことはすべて君が教えてくれた (2011)

Synopsis

Toda and Miura play two teachers, Natsumi Uemura and Shuji Kashiwagi, at the same high school who are set to get married in half a year. However, the night before the school year's opening ceremony, Shuji becomes involved with the young Hikari Saeki (played by Takei), without realizing that she will be a student in his class starting the next day. As Shuji struggles to help Hikari deal with the mental complex she is suffering from, he is also torn inside by his betrayal of Natsumi. Meanwhile, Hikari attempts to get closer to Natsumi, driven by feelings of jealousy and a desire to destroy the couple's relationship.

School!! スクール!! (2011)

Synopsis

The drama revolves around a public elementary school beset with problems. Eguchi plays the passionate protagonist, who worked at construction sites for 20 years with a mid-sized general contractor. However, in order to keep a promise he made with his former teacher, he suddenly changes jobs and becomes the principal of his old school, which he must save from closing down.

Misaki Number One!! 美咲ナンバーワン!! (2011)

Synopsis

One day, all of a sudden, Misaki, the number one hostess of a club in Roppongi becomes a high school teacher! Of all classes, she is appointed as the homeroom teacher for Class 2Z, a special class for the troublemakers at the school. But, with her positive power, she takes the students head-on, without ever giving up!

Majisuka Gakuen 2 マジスカ学園 2 (2011)

Synopsis

The story continues in the next school year after the events of the last season. The new members of Rappappa now face a even greater threat from within their own school and the surrounding schools.

Hagane No Onna 2 ハガネの女 Season 2 (2011)

Synopsis

36-year-old Haga Ineko (Kichise Michiko) has successfully passed the teachers’ exams with the encouragement of the students of Class 4/3. She would like to say that she is still single … but she has received a proposal from Shioda Wataru (Kaname Jun), the former assistant form teacher, and congratulates herself as she gazes at the engagement ring that she has received from him. However, one day, Tao (Kurosaki Reina), a girl whose parents were deported for illegal entry into Japan, transfers to the school and Hagane’s class. Even though Tao is of a different nationality, she is surely a lovable student and Hagane accepts Tao with this sentiment … … But Tao, who feels resentful of Japanese people, quickly gets into a conflict with her classmates.

Hagane No Onna ハガネの女 (2010)

Synopsis

Haga Ineko stopped being a school teacher for she was about to get married. When she is suddenly dumped by her to-be husband, she loses her way, and starts drinking. One day, an old friend approaches with a job offer. She would be a substitute teacher in a class on which several teachers gave up without an apparent reason. She reluctantly takes the job only to discover that there are several brutal bullying cases inside the class. Even she eventually starts being anonymously threatened due to her opposing posture against such cases. She now has to identify and reprimand them while at the same time protecting weaker students. The word "Hagane" on the title is a nickname which comes from Haga (her surname) and Ne (from Ineko, her name), but is actually a pun with the actual word hagane (which means steel, denoting how she must be in order to resist as a teacher).

Atsui Zo! Nekogaya!! 熱いぞ！猫ヶ谷!! (2010)

Synopsis We're HOT! Valley Cats Based on the manga, it is set in the hottest town of Japan, where it's a rule for every high-school girl to wear a bikini. Stars Miss Magazine gravure idols Yui Koike (小池唯) as Oshino Ikumi (押野育美)

3 Nen B Gumi Kinpachi Sensei 1 3年B組金八先生 1 (1979)

Synopsis

Stars popular actor Takeda Tetsuya as an inspirational teacher put in charge of an unruly class of 9th graders. This highly-rated series reveals a rarely-seen side of Japan's educational system. - It may be an old J-drama, but it is a real classic and one not to be missed by any J-drama lovers. Takeda Tetsuya in his most memorable role.