Details
Title: 医龍 Team Medical Dragon
Title (romaji): Iryu Team Medical Dragon
Also known as: Team Medical Dragon
Genre: Medical
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Season 1
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 14.75%
Broadcast period: 2006-Apr-13 to 2006-Jun-29
Air time: Thursday 22:00
Theme song: Believe by AI
Synopsis
Ryutaro Asada, a renegade but brilliant surgeon, was being framed for a misdiagnosis and let go by the North Japanese Hospital. He went into exile and lived in a seaside shack when he was visited by Akira Kato, assistant professor of the Faculty of Cardiac Surgery at Meishin University Medical Hospital.
Despite being a female doctor, Akira managed to become an assistant professor. She was ambitious and set her goal to be promoted to full professor by succeeding in a surgery using the Batista technique — an extremely difficult type of heart surgery — and to write a paper on it. A year ago, Akira witnessed Ryutaro's skills when he was an NGO doctor and was impressed enough to seek his assistance in the Batista technique.
This drama exposed the difficulties encountered in the rigid Japanese medical professions in treating patients whereby decisions made were based more on protecting the hospitals than the patients.
Cast
Sakaguchi Kenji as Asada Ryutaro
Inamori Izumi as Kato Akira
Mizukawa Asami as Satohara Miki
Koike Teppei as Ijyuuin Noboru
Natsuki Mari as Kito Shoko
Kitamura Kazuki as Kirishima Gunji
Abe Sadao as Arase Monji
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Fujiyoshi Keisuke
Kishibe Ittoku as Noguchi Keno
Ikeda Tetsuhiro as Kihara Takehiko
Mukaichi Mion as Fujiyoshi Juri (ep3)
Kanai Yuta (ep5-6)
Shimizu Koji (ep8-11)
Yabe Kenji (ep5,6,8,11)
Production Credits
Original writing (manga): Iryu by Nogizaka Taro
Screenwriter: Hayashi Hiroshi
Producer: Osabe Sosuke, Higashi Yasuyuki (東康之)
Director: Kubota Satoshi (久保田哲史), Mizuta Narihide
Music: Kono Shin, Sawano Hiroyuki
