Black Pean

Details[edit]

Title: ブラックペアン
Title (English): Black Pean
Also known as: Black Forceps
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Medical
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 14.21%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2018-Apr-22 to 2018-Jun-24
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Theme song: Kono Michi wo by Oda Kazumasa

Synopsis[edit]

Tokai Seishiro is a surgical genius whose perfect operational success rate has earned him the moniker, “The Demon of O.R.” at the Tojo University Hospital, a name that also points to his overbearing and solitary personality. He is countered by a rookie physician, Takashina Gonta, who comes to the hospital from a different medical university advocating hard for cutting edge medical technology that promises to render individual differences in surgical skill obsolete and level the playing field among surgeons. Naturally, a battle brews Takashina and Tokai who is adverse to the idea of machines taking over surgical procedures, particularly with regard to cardiac surgery. Tokai also confronts a powerful university hospital system that is rife with jealousies and political intrigue, and seeks to expose a hidden past and new technology corruption scandal. -- TBS

Cast[edit]

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Ninomiya Kazunari as Tokai Seishiro
Takeuchi Ryoma as Sera Masashi
Aoi Wakana as Hanabuki Miwa
Hashimoto Satoshi as Kurosaki Seiichiro
Kanno Misuzu as Fujiwara Makoto
Shuri as Nekota Mari
Uchimura Haruka (内村遥) as Kakitani Yuushi
Konno Hiroki as Sekikawa Fuminori
Okada Kohki as Yokoyama Tadashi
Morita Kanro (森田甘路) as Taguchi Kouhei
Yamada Yusuke as Hayami Kouichi
Okazaki Sae as Shimazu Touko
Matsukawa Naruki as Kitajima Tatsuya
Mizutani Kaho (水谷果穂) as Miyamoto Ayumi
Hara Anna (原アンナ) as Arai Mio
Maru Itta (丸一太) as Shinohara Kennichi
Shibue Joji as Fukumoto Masato
Shigaki Taro as Moriya Nobuaki

Tsuji Kazunaga (辻萬長) as Tokai Ichirou
Baisho Mitsuko as Tokai Harue
Kato Ayako (加藤綾子) as Kinoshita Kaori

Kato Koji as Ikenaga Hideto
Ichikawa Kamejiro as Nishizaki Keisuke
Koizumi Kotaro as Takashina Gonta
Uchino Seiyo as Saeki Seigou

Guests[edit]

Yamamura Momiji as Minagawa Taeko (ep1)
Sawamatsu Naoko (沢松奈生子) as Koyama Yoshie (ep2)
Shimada Youshichi (島田洋七) as Koyama Kaneto (ep2)
Tasaki Shinya (田崎真也) as Kusunoki Hideo (ep3)
Kochi Yugo as Tamura Hayato (ep3)
Yoda Tsukasa (依田司) as Tamura Kouji (ep3)
Tanaka Masami (田中雅美) as Shimano Naho (ep4,5)
Inagaki Kurumi as Shimano Koharu (ep4,5)
Otoo Takuma as Matsuoka Jin (ep5)
Fukuzawa Akira (福澤朗) as Tomizawa Masayuki (ep5)
Aibu Saki as Yamamoto Shoko (ep7)

Production Credits[edit]

Original writing Black Pean 1988 by Kaido Takeru (海堂尊)
Screenwriter: Ushio Kentaro (丑尾健太郎)
Producer: Iyoda Hidenori, Kawashima Ryutaro, Tawada Yutaka (峠田浩)
Music: Kimura Hideakira

Recognitions[edit]

22nd Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (Apr-Jun 2018): Best Drama
22nd Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (Apr-Jun 2018): Best Actor - Ninomiya Kazunari

External Links[edit]

Winter 2018	TBS	Summer 2018
99.9 Season 2	Sunday 21:00	Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni