Code Blue Season 3

Drama: Code Blue Season 3
Romaji: Kodo Buru ~ Dokuta Heri Kinkyu Kyumei
Japanese: コード・ブルー～ドクターヘリ緊急救命～
Director: Masaki Nishiura, Hiroki Hayama, Ryo Tanaka
Writer: Naoko Adachi
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes: 10
Release Date: July 17 - September 18, 2017
Runtime: Mondays 21:00
TV Ratings: 14.6%
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
Kousaku Aizawa (Tomohisa Yamashita), Megumi Shiraishi (Yui Aragaki), Mihoko Hiyama (Erika Toda), Kazuo Fuikawa (Yosuke Asari) and Haruka Saejima (Manami Higa) have worked and pursued careers down different paths.

Kousaku Aizawa left the hospital emergency room. He now works as a brain surgeon. Megumi Shiraishi works hard as a staff leader for flight doctors at a hospital emergency room. Mihoko Hiyama wanted to become a flight doctor in th past, but she left the hospital emergency room and now works as an ob-gyn. Kazuo Fuikawa works as a emergency physician specializing in orthopedics and works with Megumi Shiraishi. Haruka Saejima still works as a nurse for flight doctors.

They each live fiercely and face new situations.

Cast
Tomohisa Yamashita
Yui Aragaki
Erika Toda
Manami Higa
Yosuke Asari
Daiki Arioka
Ryo Narita
Yuko Araki
Fumika Baba
Masanobu Ando
Kippei Shiina
Ryo
Tetta Sugimoto
Susumu Terajima

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A LIFE

Title: A LIFE
Tagline: 愛しき人 / Itoshiki Hito
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Medical, romance
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 14.52%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2017-Jan-15 to 2017-Mar-19
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Theme song: Still Alive by B'z

Synopsis
When Surgeon Okita Kazuaki was a rookie doctor, he was kicked out of the hospital due to his friend's Danjo Masao plan. He left for the U.S., leaving behind his girlfriend Mifuyu. With his hard work, he became an excellent surgeon. 10 years later, he comes back to Japan by request of Mifuyu's father, who is a hospital director. Mifuyu is now married to Danjo Masao. -- TV Japan

Cast
Kimura Takuya as Okita Kazuaki
Takeuchi Yuko as Danjo Mifuyu
Matsuyama Kenichi as Igawa Sota
Kimura Fumino as Shibata Yuki
Nanao as Sakakibara Minori
Emoto Akira as Danjo Toranosuke
Tanaka Min as Okita Isshin
Kobayashi Takashi as Sanada Takayuki
Oikawa Mitsuhiro as Hamura Keigo
Asano Tadanobu as Danjo Masao
Takenoya Saki as Danjo Rina

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Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim

    Title: 낭만닥터 김사부 / Nangmandakteo Kimsabu
    Genre: Medical, melodrama, human
    Episodes: 20 + 1 Special
    Broadcast network: SBS
    Broadcast period: 2016-Nov-07 to 2017-Jan-17
    Air Time: Monday & Tuesday 22:00
    Original soundtrack: Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim OST

Synopsis

Dr. Kim was once a famous surgeon who decided to leave his former workplace to be in a small hospital. The oddball but genius doctor teaches the meaning of true doctors to Kang Dong Joo and Yoon Seo Jung, two young doctors who were passionate in their efforts, but only for their own selfish reasons.
Cast

Main Cast

    Han Suk Kyu as Teacher Kim / Bu Yong Joo
    Yoo Yun Suk as Kang Dong Joo
        Yoon Chan Young as young Dong Joo
    Seo Hyun Jin as Yoon Seo Jung
        Shin Yi Joon (신이준) as young Seo Jung

Doldam Hospital

    Kim Hong Pa (김홍파) as Yeo Woon Young
    Jin Kyung as Oh Myung Shim
    Im Won Hee as Jang Gi Tae
    Byun Woo Min as Nam Do Il
    Seo Eun Soo (서은수) as Woo Yun Hwa
    Kim Min Jae as Park Eun Tak

Geosan Hospital

    Choi Jin Ho as Do Yoon Wan
    Yang Se Jong as Do In Bum
    Jang Hyuk Jin as Song Hyun Chul (chief surgeon)
    Joo Hyun as President Shin
    Yoon Na Moo as Jung In Soo
    Kim Hye Eun as Hyun Jung (President Shin's daughter)

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Medical Team: Lady da Vinci no Shindan

Title: メディカルチーム レディ・ダ・ヴィンチの診断
Title (romaji): Medical Team: Lady da Vinci no Shindan
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Medical mystery
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 8.11%
Broadcast network: Fuji TV / KTV
Broadcast period: 2016-Oct-11 to 2016-Dec-13
Air time: Tuesday 21:00
Theme song: Miracle by AI

Synopsis
Tachibana Shiho is a genius neurosurgeon. However, after being in an accident, she started having visual hallucination while performing surgeries. Due to this symptom, Shiho decides to quit her profession. Then, Kitabatake Masayuki, her former professor who is currently the Director of Toko University Hospital, persuades her to join the Department of Analysis and Diagnosis, also known as "Lady da Vinci," at his university hospital. Lady da Vinci is a team of seven female diagnosticians who are all extremely talented in their expertise yet each seems to have a very distinct personality all their own. -- Fuji TV

Cast
Yoshida Yo as Tachibana Shiho
Aibu Saki as Nitta Yukino
Yoshioka Riho as Tamaru Ayaka
Shiratori Kumiko (白鳥久美子) as Satomi Aoi
Takizawa Saori as Uematsu Yui
Fueki Yuko as Murakami Natsumi
Ito Ran as Iwakura Yoko
Takahashi Katsunori as Kitabatake Masayuki
Totsugi Shigeyuki as Sasaki Shinya
Kobayashi Katsuya as Takasugi Yuki
Ikeoka Ryosuke (池岡亮介) as Fujimoto Shuji
Igarashi Kento (五十嵐健人) as Watanabe Hiroshi
Fujisawa Haruka as Tachibana Mao
Shounozaki Ken as Miyabe Kohei

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Doctor X Season 4

Title: ドクターX
Title (English): Doctor-X
Tagline: 外科医・大門未知子 / Gekai Daimon Michiko
Genre: Medical
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Format: Renzoku
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 21.49%
Broadcast period: 2016-Oct-13 to 2016-Dec-22
Air time: Thursday 21:00
Theme song: 99 by Superfly

Synopsis
Michiko Daimon (Ryoko Yonekura) goes up against Shigekatsu Hiruma (Toshiyuki Nishida). Shigekatsu Hiruma is a new director for the best university hospital in Japan and also bears a deep grudge against Michiko Daimon.

Cast
Yonekura Ryoko as Daimon Michiko (40)
Namase Katsuhisa as Kikawada Takayuki (55)
Uchida Yuki as Jonouchi Hiromi (37)
Katsumura Masanobu as Kaji Hideki (52)
Takito Kenichi as Kitano Toru (42)
Kusakari Tamiyo as Minami Ikuko (48)
Tanaka Michiko (田中道子) as Shiromizu Rika (26)
Yoshida Kotaro as Saionji Takeshi (57)
Kishibe Ittoku as Kanbara Akira (69)
Izumi Pinko as Kubo Toko (65)
Nishida Toshiyuki as Hiruma Shigekatsu (65)

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Fragile

Title: フラジャイル
Title (English): Fragile
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Medical
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 9.77%
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2016-Jan-13 to 2016-Mar-16
Air time: Wednesday 22:00
Theme song: fragile by TOKIO

Synopsis
Based on the original manga series by Kusamizu Bin (story) and Megumi Saburo, the drama follows the story of Kishi Keiichitaro, a dashingly handsome pathologist who is intensely eccentric and brutally honest, but also holds one of the most brilliant minds. A pathologist is a physician whose job is to determine a diagnosis of disease or cause of death based on an assortment of data, including a patient's tissue, bodily fluids, organ samples, blood, etc.

Cast
Nagase Tomoya as Kishi Keiichitaro
Takei Emi as Miyazaki Chihiro
Nomura Shuhei as Morii Hisashi
Koyuki as Hosoki Madoka
Tsuda Kanji as Sada Naoto
Matsui Rena as Hibako Naomi (ep3-4)
Kitaoji Kinya as Nakaguma Kaoru

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Doctor X SP 2016

TV Movie: Doctor-X
Romaji: Dokuta-X ~Gekai Daimon Michiko~ Supesharu
Japanese: ドクターＸ ～外科医・大門未知子～スペシャル
Director: Naomi Tamura
Writer: Miho Nakazono
Network: TV Asahi
Episodes: 1
Release Date: July 3, 2016
Runtime: Sunday 21:00
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
Kojiro Himuro (Kei Inoo) is a champion figure skater taking part in an upcoming world competition. Yet, he is suffering from a complicated CTEPH (chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension). Kantaro Kurosu (Takeshi Kitano) is the director of the Cross Medical Center. He asks Michiko Daimon (Ryoko Yonekura) to perform surgery on Kojiro Himuro, but, right before his surgery, Michiko Daimon is deprived of “the most important weapon as a surgeon.”

Cast
Ryoko Yonekura
Ittoku Kishibe
Yuki Uchida
Takeshi Kitano
Isao Hashizume
Katsuhisa Namase
Yuki Shikanuma
Toshiyuki Nishida
Kenichi Endo
Masanobu Katsumura
Kosuke Suzuki
Kayoko Kishimoto
Munetaka Aoki
Kei Inoo
Manami Hashimoto

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Designer Baby

Drama: Designer Baby
Romaji: Dizaina Beibi
Japanese: デザイナーベイビー
Director: Hitoshi Iwamoto
Writer: Takashi Okai (novel), Kaeko Hayafune
Network: NHK
Episodes: 8
Release Date: September 22 - November 10, 2015
Runtime: Tuesdays 22:00-22:48
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot
Hiroshi Chikamori is a famous doctor in physical engineering. His one week old daughter Nozomi is abducted at the hospital. Yuri Hayami (Meisa Kuroki) is a detective in a special investigation team. She is also 8 months pregnant. Inspector Himura (Satoshi Jinbo) suddenly summons Yuri and assigns her to observe Nozomi’s mother Yuko (Yumi Adachi) at the hospital. Yuri Hayami goes undercover at the hospital and works with Detective Fukuske Dobashi (Daichi Watanabe) who takes the identity of her husband.

Doctor Susami (Atsuro Watabe) doesn't have an alibi for the time period when the baby was kidnapped. Yuri suspects Doctor Susami. Meanwhile, the kidnapper calls and reveals a ransom demand.

Cast
Meisa Kuroki
Atsuro Watabe
Daichi Watanabe - Fukusuke Dobashi
Toru Tezuka - Giichi Nishimura
Satoshi Jinbo - Kengo Himura
Yuki Matsushita - Reiko Yonaguni
Ikkei Watanabe - Norihiko Sakiyama
Yoshihiko Hosoda - Jun Minamoto
Yuko Ito - Nachi Hiragi
Yuki Saito - Akemi Yamahara
Toshio Shiba - Rokuro Toge
Arata Saeki - Makoto Oide
Asami Usuda - Kumi Ariyoshi
Yumi Adachi - Yuko Chikamori
Mansaku Ikeuchi - Hiroshi Chikamori
Tamae Ando - Tomo Kishida
Yasushi Fuchikami - Yuya Kishida
Hayato Kakizawa - Noritaka Toge
Shigenori Yamazaki - Kosuke Shimoji
Erika Shumoto

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Kounodori

Title: コウノドリ
Title (romaji): Kounodori
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Medical
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 11.41%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2015-Oct-16 to 2015-Dec-18
Air time: Friday 22:00
Theme song: Anata ga Koko ni Ite Dakishimeru Koto ga Dekiru Nara by miwa

Synopsis
The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an Ob-Gyn doctor working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a gifted jazz pianist. His mother had died at childbirth and he was brought up in an orphanage, which is what fueled his ambition to be an ob-gyn. He hopes to be able to deliver every baby to this world, congratulating them on the gift of life given to their little bodies. -TBS

Cast
Ayano Go as Kounodori Sakura
Matsuoka Mayu as Shimoya Kae
Yoshida Yo as Komatsu Rumiko
Sakaguchi Kentaro (坂口健太郎) as Shirakawa Ryo
Seino Nana as Sumida Mayumi
Hirayama Yusuke as Kase Hiroshi
Toyomoto Akinaga (豊本明長) as Funakoshi Takuya
Asano Kazuyuki as Ozawa Masanobu
Ayado Chie as Onoda Keiko
Eguchi Noriko as Mukai Yoko
Yamaguchi Sayaka as Arai Megumi
Hoshino Gen as Shinomiya Haruki
Omori Nao as Imahashi Takayuki

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Mutsu ~Mieru Me~

Title: 無痛
Title (romaji): Mutsu
Tagline: 診える眼 / Mieru Me
Also known as: Painless
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Medical, mystery
Episodes: 10
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2015-Oct-07 to 2015-Dec-16
Air time: Wednesday 22:00
Theme song: Kuroi Shizuku by Superfly

Synopsis
Dr. Tameyori Eisuke has a gift. He is able to tell from one look at the patient, what is the underlying cause of their illness. Since the death of his wife, he finds it inhumane to try selling cures to the terminally ill for it is just a waste of their money. He left the major hospitals to open his own little clinic in a cozy little corner of a residential area. His gift does not only allow him to see through the patients' illnesses, it also allows him to tell when someone is about to commit a crime (he can read their aura). It is for this that Detective Hayase Junichiro always approaches him to help him solve his cases. Although Eisuke is not keen to do it, he still helps out as he is a kind person who cannot turn down a plea for help. --by Fuji TV

Cast
Nishijima Hidetoshi as Tameyori Eisuke
Ito Atsushi as Hayase Junichiro
Ishibashi Anna as Takashima Namiko
Ito Hideaki as Shiragami Yoji
Nakamura Aoi as Ibara Tadateru
Hamabe Minami as Minami Satomi
Asada Miyoko as Inoue Kazue
Tsukayama Masane as Kurume Minoru
Miyamoto Maki as Yokoi Kiyomi
Baba Toru (馬場徹) as Ota Takeshi
Hyodo Taiki (兵動大樹) as Nikawa Yasuo
Izumi Yumiko (和泉佑三子) as Hashimoto Hiroko
Iitoyo Marie as Seno Airi (ep4)

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Ishitachi no Renai Jijou

Title: 医師たちの恋愛事情
Title (romaji): Ishitachi no Renai Jijou
Also known as: Doctors' Affairs
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romance, medical
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 8.44%
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2015-Apr-09 to 2015-Jun-18
Air time: Thursday 22:00
Theme song: Don't be love by Shishido Kavka

Synopsis
Morita Haruki is a surgeon who only thinks about saving patients 24 hours a day, every day. A compassionate man with a strong sense of justice, he pushes back against the university hospital system which prioritises profit and power. However, he has forgotten how to love because he has put work before romance and his hectic job. Haruki takes a position at a university hospital out of a desire to hone his skills as a surgeon. But it is a place where all sorts of desires swirl. He meets Kondo Chizuru, a surgeon who is his senior, here. Chizuru has been very wrapped up in her work and is now past marriageable age. He gets attracted to her little by little -- Jdrama Weblog

Cast
Saito Takumi as Morita Haruki
Ishida Yuriko as Kondo Chizuru
Aibu Saki as Kawai Nana
Hirayama Hiroyuki as Takahashi Sotaro
Miyake Hiroki as Oone Ryota
Ihara Tsuyoshi as Nishi Yusuke
Itaya Yuka as Ichikawa Tomoko
Namase Katsuhisa as Watanabe Mikio
Tokoshima Yoshiko as Shiraishi Kuniko
Rokkaku Shinji
Watanabe Kouhei (渡邉紘平)
Matsunaga Kyoko as Akane
Ikushima Yuki (生島勇輝)
Nakabeppu Aoi as Wakabayashi
Omura Manabu (大村学)
Horiguchi Hikaru (堀口ひかる)
Tanokura Yuta (田野倉雄太)
Negishi Toshie
Sakurai Atsuko as Nishi Emi
Tajima Reiko
Kaneda Akio

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Dr. Rintaro

Title: Dr.倫太郎
Title (romaji): Dr. Rintaro
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Medical
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 12.71%
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2015-Apr-15 to 2015-Jun-17
Air time: Wednesday 22:00

Synopsis
His name is Hino Rintaro. He listens closely to the aching hearts of people and relieves them of their pain. He is published and makes television appearances. The number of people waiting to receive his consultation continues to grow. Despite his achievements, Dr. Rintaro falls short in one department: love. He even dismisses it by saying “Falling in love is just like a passing mental illness.” One day, during a meal with the president of the university, Rintaro meets a woman. Her name is Yumeno, a highly sought-after geisha in Shimbashi. Little did Rintaro know that this encounter would drastically change his life. -- NTV

Cast
Sakai Masato as Hino Rintaro
Aoi Yu as Yumeno
Kichise Michiko as Mizushima Yuriko
Uchida Yuki as Kiryuu Kaoru
Takanashi Rin as Kawakami Yoko
Takahashi Issei as Fukuhara Daisaku
Matobu Sei as Yabe Machiko
Nakanishi Miho (中西美帆) as Koyume
Yo Kimiko as Masuda Ikumi
Endo Kenichi as Araki Shigeto
Sakai Wakana as Nakahata Madoka
Nagatsuka Keishi (長塚圭史) as Miyagawa Takahiro
Matsushige Yutaka as Hasumi Eisuke
Ishibashi Renji as Ike Masayuki
Takahata Atsuko as Aizawa Ruriko
Kohinata Fumiyo as Ennouji Kazuo

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Doctor-X Season 3

Title: ドクターX
Title (English): Doctor-X
Tagline: 外科医・大門未知子
Tagline (romaji): Gekai Daimon Michiko
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Medical
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Episodes: 11
Viewership rating: 22.9%
Broadcast period: 2014-Oct-09 to 2014-Dec-18
Air time: Thursday 21:00
Theme song: Ai wo Karada ni Fukikonde by Superfly

Synopsis
Daimon Michiko is a freelance surgeon who does not belong to a university hospital's medical department. She goes around various hospitals while affiliated with Kanbara Akira's shady Good Doctors Agency. One day, Michiko is visiting a southern island when she encounters passengers who were injured in a luxury liner accident. One of them is Busujima Ryunosuke, the former hospital director of Teito Medical University’s Third Hospital, which she was sent to at one time. Michiko quickly attends to Busujima. That is when she notices something abnormal. Busujima is later admitted to the National Higher Medical Care Centre, a technologically advanced hospital which the country has staked its prestige on in order to show Japan's medical technology to the world. He has a huge heart tumour as well as a ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma. There is a big upheaval regarding this surgery at a preoperative conference because a futile power struggle between the factions of Totei University Hospital and Saikyo University Hospital, which represent Japan's east and west, is intensifying at the centre. This struggle for supremacy has reached the point that it makes even Tendo Yoshihito, the director of the centre, fret. The two factions naturally fight to be in charge of Busujima's surgery and will not give an inch. Michiko suddenly shows up at this savage conference and boldly declares, "Let me operate. He’s my patient." However, she gets thrown out unceremoniously. Right after that, the situation undergoes a complete change. The men of both factions hire Michiko and contemplate how to tip the power play in their favour. In the end, Michiko is employed as Busujima's attending physician. But of all things, the man himself is dead set against being operated by her … … Following her own conviction to save the lives before her and to keep doing this as long as she lives, Michiko pushes on and starts to shake things up again. -- Jdrama Weblog

Cast
Yonekura Ryoko as Daimon Michiko, doctor (38)
Endo Kenichi as Ebina Takashi (51)
Uchida Yuki as Jonouchi Hiromi (35)
Katsumura Masanobu as Kaji Hideki (50)
Watanabe Ikkei as Kato Mineji (51)
Makita Sports as Futaba Kenji (45)
Takahashi Kazuya as Ashigara Shintaro (39)
Kinoshita Takayuki (木下隆行) as Achi Shozo (42)
Naito Risa as Sekigahara Tomoko (26)
Shounozaki Ken as Ikawa Masumi (29)
Matsushima Hana as Hashiguchi Aya (25)
Nakao Akira as Kurobe Tetsuya
Ibu Masato as Dangozaki Noboru (58)
Takahata Atsuko as Shiraki Junko (55)
Kishibe Ittoku as Kanbara Akira (67)
Kitaoji Kinya as Tendo Yoshihito (68)

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Last Doctor

Title: ラスト・ドクター
Title (romaji): Last Doctor
Tag line: ～監察医アキタの検死報告～
Tag line (romaji): ~Kansatsu-i Akita no kenshi houkoku~
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Medical
Episodes: 9
Broadcast network: TV Tokyo
Broadcast period: 2014-Jul-11 to 2014-Sep-12
Air time: Friday 20:00
Theme song: Wah no Uta by Kirishima Nodoka

Synopsis

Yoshizaki Kaoruko, who had been a clinician at a university hospital, takes up a post at a medical examiner’s office after she is told by her professor to try to get experience. However, everyone from the Supervising Dr. Akita Shinya, Director Yanagida Shuhei, and Assistant Yamashita Mieko are all individualistic characters. This does not bode well for the future. Meanwhile, Akita and Kaoruko are put in charge of the dead body of a popular model who fell to her death. The police consider it to be a suicide, but Akita is drawn to a subtle point...

Cast

Terawaki Yasufumi as Akita Shinya
Aibu Saki as Yoshizaki Kaoruko
YOU as Takeuchi Ryoko
Watanabe Ikkei as Yamakura Keiji
Toda Keiko as Yamashita Meiko
Makita Sports as Yasuda Keisuke
Watanabe Shu as Ikeda Keiji
Ito Shiro as Yanagida Shuhei

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Zero no Shinjitsu

Title: ゼロの真実
Title (romaji): Zero no Shinjitsu
Tagline: ～監察医・松本真央～
Tagline (romaji): ~Kansatsui Matsumoto Mao~
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Medical
Episodes: 8
Viewership rating: TBD
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2014-Jul-17 to 2014-Sep-04
Air time: Thursday 21:00
Theme song: Pazuru (puzzle) by Shonanno Kaze

Synopsis

Matsumoto Mao is suppose to become the new medical examiner and visit the USA at the age of 10. While there she is to study advanced placement 3rd year Forensics. she has an IQ of over 150.
Suddenly she becomes like an ordinary person confusing everybody, except Kyoko. A rush of bodies come in for autopsy. A middle aged man who apparently fell for a scaffolding at a construction site comes in. Mao begins the autopsy without a speck of the days exhaustion showing. She discoveries that he did not simply head his head while falling. Case impending..

Cast

Takei Emi as Matsumoto Mao
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Yashiki Ichiro
Namase Katsuhisa as Izumisawa Ikuo
Wada Masato as Tomita Hajime
Denden as Hosaka Hiroshi
Rokkaku Seiji as Iwamatsu Masahiko
Aoyagi Sho as Kodama Yoshito
Komatsu Kazushige as Tsukada Kentaro
Mizusawa Elena as Akiyama Haruko
Miyazaki Karen as Kume Midori
Hashizume Isao as Kosugi Sadao
Maya Miki as Inden Kyoko

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Shikatsushi ~ Joou no Houigaku ~

Title: 屍活師~女王の法医学~
Title (romaji): Shikatsushi ~ Joou no Houigaku ~
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: medical drama
Episodes: 1
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast date: 2013-Sep-27
Air time: Friday 21:00-22:27

Synopsis

Rumpled after staying up all night long, Associate Professor Kiriyama Yuki (Matsushita Nao) of Kanagawa Chuo University's forensic medicine class receives a phone call about the discovery of a drowned man at a pier. Detective Murakami Ei (Matsushige Yutaka) of Tobu Police Precinct is at the scene as Yuki arrives. The police regards drowning as the cause of death because the possibility of foul play is low, but she talks to the dead body, telling him that she will listen closely. The drowned man is identified as Kasai Kazuma. Fourth-year medical faculty student Inukai Hajime (Yokoyama Yu) intends to be a clinician for the department of surgery, but does not make the cut due to his grades. He goes straight to bargain with Yuki, determined to ask for a change in course. However, shortly after that, he is ordered to help with Kasai's autopsy. Although Inukai is overwhelmed by Yuki who presides over the place like queen with a scalpel in her hand, some words on the wall gets him curious Yuki immediately notices that there is no water retained in the windpipe even though the body was found drowned. The cause of death is not drowning. Another dead body is brought over. It is the body of a kidnapper who had fallen to his death while escaping and clues to the kidnapped child are lost. Because the child has diabetes, his life will be in danger if he is not found in the next few hours. Yuki halts Kasai's autopsy and quickly dissects the kidnapper. She identifies the place where the kidnapper had been through the autopsy. Inukai only half believes Yuki, but the site where the child was held captive is identified and the child is taken into custody unharmed. A life was saved through forensic medicine. Yuki resumes Kasai's autopsy and tells Murakami that there was foul play because he died from strangulation. It is later determined through a police investigation that Kasai murdered a former Keimei University classmate Suzuhara Miyako (Matsuyama Airi) six years ago and had just been released from prison three days ago. They are suspicious about a phone call he made to Toyama Shunpei (Kashiwabara Shuji) after he got out. Kasai, the late Miyako and Toyama had been friends. Miyako was going to go out with Toyama despite being pregnant with Kasai's child and it is believed that Kasai had killed her in a fit of rage. After that, Inukai hears from Kasai's mother Hatsue (Iwamoto Masuyo), who has come to claim her son's body that at the time of the case, that a Keimei University professor Shiraki Minoru (Kazama Morio) had made effort to try to prove that Kasai was falsely accused. If that is true and the real criminal is out there... Murakami heads to Keimei University to meet Shiraki and Toyama who is now a lecturer but... --Jdramas

Cast

Matsushita Nao as Kiriyama Yuki
Yokoyama Yu as Inukai Hajime
Matsushige Yutaka as Murakami Ei
Hashimoto Jun as Ibata Shinji
Yamanaka Takashi as Masaki Tatsuya
Kazama Morio as Shiraki Minoru
Iwamoto Masuyo as mother Hatsue
Matsuyama Airi (松山愛里) as Suzuhara Miyako
Kashiwabara Shuji as Toyama Shunpei

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Team Medical Dragon Season 4

Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 12.14%
Broadcast period: 2014-Jan-9 to 2014-Mar-20
Air time: Thursday 22:00
Theme song: Aoi Ryuu (Blue Dragon) by ATSUSHI from EXILE

Synopsis
The fourth season of the popular medical drama starring Sakaguchi Kenji that portrays cutting-edge medical treatments in a thrilling overall package. Three years after the previous season, brilliant surgeon Asada Ryutaro (Sakaguchi) and his "Team Dragon" are back to achieve their goal of creating the perfect hospital where patients are the priority again.
Two new exciting additions to the characters include Asada's former teacher (Hira Mikijiro) and a competent management consultant of the government (Takahashi Katsunori). The story in this season focuses on globalization.

Cast
Sakaguchi Kenji as Asada Ryutaro
Inamori Izumi as Kato Akira
Koike Teppei as Ijyuuin Noboru
Abe Sadao as Arase Monji
Hira Mikijiro
Takahashi Katsunori
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Fujiyoshi Keisuke
Ikeda Tetsuhiro as Kihara Takehiko
Natsuki Mari as Kito Shoko
Kishibe Ittoku as Noguchi Keno
Mizukawa Asami as Satohara Miki (ep 11 - cameo)

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Dr. DMAT

3 DVD

Title: ドクター　ディーマット
Title (romaji): Dr. DMAT
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Suspense, Medical
Episodes: 11
Viewership rating: 6.87%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2014-Jan-9 to 2014-Mar-20
Air time: Thursday 21:00
Theme song: Hibiki by Kanjani∞

Synopsis

DMAT, the acronym for the "Disaster Medical Assistance Team", was first established in 2004. For the past 10 years, the team has been providing on-site emergency assistance at disaster-hit areas. Yakumo Hibiki was an surgeon at the Arisukawa General Hospital's Emergency Unit, but due to a mistake involving his sister Haruko, he has since been transferred to the internal medicine unit. One day, the hospital Director, Dr. Isesaki Katsuichi, requests for Hibiki to move to DMAT. His childhood friend, Nurse Yoshioka Rin, encourages him to take up the role, but upon joining the team, Hibiki finds his new colleagues aloof and a little eccentric. His first assignment is to a pile-up accident in a road tunnel, and he finds himself working against time to provide medical treatment to those who require immediate attention.

Cast

Ohkura Tadayoshi as Yakumo Hibiki
Kato Ai as Yoshioka Rin
Takimoto Miori as Yakumo Haruko
Ichikawa Mikako as Isesaki Kumi
Aso Yumi as Hasegawa Kumiko
Sato Jiro as Kozone Tatsuya
Hosshan (ほっしゃん。) as Murakami Kazushi
Matsuo Satoru as Hanada Takichiro
Takizawa Saori as Mizuno Sachiko
Takaki Yuya as Komatsu Kenji
Hidari Tonpei (左とん平) as Yakumo Raizou
Ishiguro Ken as Sakuraba Shusaku
Kunimura Jun as Isesaki Katsuichi

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Kyokuhoku Rhapsody SP

(1DVD)

Title: 極北ラプソディ
Title (romaji): Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
English Title: Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
Format: Tanpatsu (2 parts)
Genre: Medical
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast date: 2013-Mar-19 (part 1), 2013-Mar-20 (part 2)
Air time: 22:00 - 23:13

Synopsis

Set in Kyokuhoku Citizen Hospital in Hokkaido, Japan. "Kyokuhoku Rhapsody" follows the life of a young doctor for a one year period. Imanaka Yoshio (Eita) works at the Kyokuhoku Hospital that is losing staff members and facing bankruptcy. During this difficult time, Imanaka Yoshio meets hairdresser Namiki Kozue (Kato Ai) and falls in love.

Cast

Eita as Imanaka Yoshio
Kato Ai as Namiki Kozue
Kobayashi Kaoru as Sera Masashi
Matsuzaka Keiko as Imanaka Mariko
Tokui Yuu as Tadokoro Hosaku
Yamaguchi Yuichiro as Hayama Koichi
Takahashi Masaya as Namiki Shogo
Lily as Iijima Miyo
Miyake Hiroki

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Doctor X 2

2 DVD

Drama: Doctor-X 2

Romaji: Dokuta-X ~Gekai・ Daimon Michiko~

Japanese: ドクターX　～外科医・大門未知子～

Director: Naomi Tamura, Hidetomo Matsuda

Writer: Miho Nakazono

Network: TV Asahi

Episodes:

Release Date: October 17, 2013 --

Runtime: Thursdays 21:00

Language: Japanese

Country: Japan

Plot

Michiko (Ryoko Yonekura) enjoys a day watching horse racing at a race track in Hokkaido. Meanwhile, a woman, who is wearing luxurious fur and served by an attractive young man, sits in the owner's chair, drinking champagne.

The horse, which is owned by the woman, blocks the path of another horse. The horse that is blocked is the horse that Michiko bet on. She loses all of her money and doesn't even have enough for transportation.

Later, the horse racing staff informs the horse owner that her horse has a fractured leg and needs to be euthanized. The woman though refuses to put her horse to sleep. The horse cost 100 million yen. While the woman and the staff argue over the fate of her horse, Michiko happens to overhear their dispute. A veterinarian tells the woman that even if her horse has an operation, it won't do any good. Hearing the veterinarian say that, fires up Michiko and she informs the owner that she will perform the operation on her horse. Michiko then heads to the operation room.

A few weeks later, Michiko attends a conference at Teito University Hospital in Tokyo. At the conference, doctors talk about treatment for a thighbone sarcoma patient. Doctors there make a decision to amputate the patient's leg. Only one voice speaks out in dissent. That voice belongs to Michiko.

An uproar occurs at the conference over Michiko's dissent. Michiko insists on saving the patient's leg, while a hospital manager tries to push Michiko away. Then, the internal medicine department head calms down everyone. The internal medicine department head is the horse owner in Hokkaido..

Cast

Ryoko Yonekura

Naohito Fujiki

Yuki Uchida

Kenichi Endo

Shinnosuke Mitsushima

Yuko Fueki

Erena Mizusawa

Manabu Ino

Toru Nomaguchi

Shinji Rokkaku

Kazuyuki Asano

Takashi Sasano

Ittoku Kishibe

Yoshiko Mita

Toshiyuki Nishida

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