Red Cross
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Details
- Title: レッドクロス
- Title (English): Red Cross
- Tagline: 女たちの赤紙 / Onnatachi no Akagami
- Format: Tanpatsu
- Genre: Drama, war
- Episodes: 2
- Broadcast network: TBS
- Broadcast period: 2015-Aug-01 to 2015-Aug-02
- Air time: Saturday & Sunday 21:00
- Insert song: Na mo Shiranu Hana no youni by Yae
Synopsis
In Japan 70 years ago, there were women who set off for the battlefield of their own will. In 1931, Amano Kiyo, a student from Saga, has been inspired by a nurse who provided care for her mother, Kinue, who was once hospitalised, and that becomes her dream. Wanting to be of use to the country even though she is a female, she decides to be an army nurse. Kiyo goes through hard training and graduates from nursing school without a hitch. She receives the draft papers and goes across to Manchuria along with her junior, Mabuchi Haru and others as she is sent off by her grandfather, Daisuke, and mother. However, what awaits them is a harsh environment that exceeds expectations. It is far removed from the Red Cross' conviction of the “spirit of benevolence”. They are in the line of fire and their lives always in danger. Every day is spent nursing so many injured soldiers that they are short-handed, and sleeping like a log. One day, Nakagawa Wataru of a Manchurian settlers community brings in injured people. One of them is his elder brother, Hikaru. The other patient is a Chinese called Sun. Kiyo persuades the military physician, Otake Hideyo, and provides Sun with medical treatment. But some incident leads to this matter being exposed by Lieutenant Colonel Kurahara, who is in charge of the hospital. After that, Kiyo, who has finished her 18-month stint, returns to Japan temporarily with some sense of purpose. She has fallen in love with Nakagawa and makes the decision to live in the settlers community. They get married and she then gives birth to their son, Hiroto. In the midst of their happy days, the war intensifies and they start to find themselves at the mercy of the times. -- Jdrama Weblog
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Cast
- Matsushima Nanako as Amano Kiyo
- Hara Suzuko (原涼子) as young Kiyo
- Takada Riho as Kiyo (student)
- Nishijima Hidetoshi as Nakagawa Wataru
- Takanashi Rin as Mabuchi Haru
- Shibamoto Yuki as Muramoto Tami
- Kudo Asuka as Nakagawa Hiroto
- Takamura Kaito as young Hiroto
- Nakamura Rukito (中村瑠輝人) as teenage Hiroto
- Suda Kunihiro as Okano Satoru
- Watanabe Makiko as Nakagawa Kaori
- Kato Toranosuke as Muramoto Koki
- Higasa Kei (日笠圭) as Soldier Higasa
- Kurashita Honami (蔵下穂波) as Muramoto Sachi
- Ichimura Rion as Nakagawa Daichi
- Tezuka Mai as Koga Maki
- Inoue Tomoko (井上朋子) as Yamaguchi Michi
- Matsuoka Rinako as Nakajima Kazuko
- Yamaguchi Keiko (山口景子) as Yoshida Hiroko
- Fukuyoshi Marina (福吉真璃奈) as Matsumoto Chiyo
- Abe Tomori (安部智凛) as Mori Fumiko
- Imamura Yuki (今村有希) as Noda Teru
- Ura Mayu (浦まゆ) as Otsubo Yoko
- Nakajima Hiroko as Takagi Shizu
- Asaji Yoko as Amano Kinue
- Hashimoto Satoshi as Kurahara Motosuke
- Akai Hidekazu as Nakagawa Hikaru
- Yoshizawa Hisashi as Major Mizoguchi
- Shoufukutei Tsurube as Otake Hideyo
- Yamazaki Tsutomu as Amano Daisuke
- Hamura Jinsei as Shuji
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Hashimoto Hiroshi
- Director: Fukuzawa Katsuo
- Music: Senju Akira