RESCUE

Details

• Title: RESCUE
• Tagline: 特別高度救助隊 / Tokubetsukodo Kyujotai
• Tagline (English): Pride of Orange
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Action
• Episodes: 9
• Viewership rating: 9.7 (Kanto)
• Broadcast network: TBS
• Broadcast period: 2009-Jan-24 to 2009-Mar-21
• Air time: Saturday 19:56
• Theme song: Rescue by KAT-TUN

Synopsis

Daichi Kitajima has become a firefighter as a consequence of his childhood experience of being rescued by a fire rescue team. Despite his trauma, he strives to be promoted to become a member of the Special Rescue Team. Beginning with Daichi, this story follows him and his fellow rescue team trainees as they grow as rescue workers, as people, and as men. While facing the indiscretions of youth, and internal conflicts, they encounter the many imbalances between the ideals and reality in lifesaving along the way. --TBS

Cast

Correlation chart

Super Ranger

• Nakamaru Yuichi as Kitajima Daichi
  • Shibuya Takeru as young Daichi (ep1,5-6)
• Masuda Takahisa as Tetsuka Yutaka
• Yamamoto Yusuke as Fudo Masashi
• Shoei as Kano Shinsuke
• Kaname Jun as Katsuragi Kosuke
• Tanaka Yoji as Igarashi Hachiro
• Takahashi You (高橋洋) as Tsukuda Yohei
• Yamamoto Koji as Miyazaki Shiro
• Ishiguro Ken as Tokunaga Katsumi

Tsuzuki Fire Dept. Emergency Services

• Fueki Yuko as Mizuno Asuka
• Ichikawa Yui as Maezono Aoi
• Ebata Hiroki as Kijima Ken

Yokohama Training Center

• Yamashita Shinji as Oyagi Seiji
• Hirayama Yusuke as Nishida Keiichi
• Sugisaki Masahiro (杉崎真宏) as Hori Tasuku

SR Cadet

• Yamada Shintaro as Suzaki Osamu
• Kaji Masaki as Kishi Ryutaro
• Ishiguro Hideo as Ikawa Shogo
• Daito Shunsuke as Kohinata Tsuyoshi
• Asari Yosuke as Koga Toshiya

Command Center

• Natsuyagi Isao as Sanada Takamasa
• Ishibashi Ryo as Serizawa Shinobu
• Yajima Kenichi as Honma Takehiko
• Nishihara Aki as Konno Nao
• Uchida Kensuke (内田健介) as Maeda Atsushi

Chinese Cafe - Fire Dragon

• Sato Jiro as Chen-san
• Hashimoto Mami (橋本真実)

Guests

• Kawamoto Kunihiro (河本邦弘) (voice, ep1-9)
• Okamoto Kotaro (岡本光太郎) as Arai (ep1)
• Okunuki Kaoru as Miyazaki Yuko (ep1)
• Kato Tsubasa (加藤翼) as Tsubasa (ep1)
• Masuda Naohiro (升田尚宏) as a reporter (ep1,7,9)
• Kanazawa Miho as Igawa Mika (ep2)
• Omori Akemi as Koga Mieko (ep3)
• Kakazu Issei as Yuta (ep4)
• Takezai Terunosuke as Endo Masato (ep5)
• Yoroi Mayo (萬井真代) as Rie (ep5)
• Sugiura Taiyo as Taguchi (ep6)
• Kurusu Atsuko as Tadokoro (ep6-7)
• Kubodera Akira (窪寺昭) as Tadokoro's husband (ep6-7)
• Saito Keita as Kojima (ep7)
• Kashiwabara Shuji as Fudo Tadashi (ep7)
• Yokoyama Megumi as Igarashi Emi (ep7-8)
• Matsushima Yukina (松嶋友貴奈) as Igarashi Yuka (ep5,7-8)
• Kondo Risa (近藤里紗) as Igarashi Chiharu (ep5,7-8)
• Endo Yumi (遠藤由実) as Igarashi Sho (ep5,7-8)
• Mochizuki Taiyo (望月太陽) as Igarashi Sho (ep5,7-8)
• Mori Koko (毛利恋子) as Igarashi Sachi (ep5,7-8)
• Katsurayama Shingo as Kaido Hiroyuki (ep8-9)

Production Credits

• Screenwriter: Yamaura Masahiro (山浦雅大) (ep1,3,5,9), Yazu Hiroyuki (八津弘幸) (ep2,4,7), Watanabe Akira (渡辺啓) (ep6,8)
• Producer: Kato Shoichi (加藤章一), Sato Atsushi (佐藤敦司)
• Director: Kuranuki Kenjiro (倉貫健二郎) (ep1-2,5,8-9), Matsuda Ayato (松田礼人) (ep3-4,7), Hori Hideki (堀英樹) (ep6)
• Music: Haneoka Kei (羽岡佳), Wada Takashi (和田貴史), Ishizaka Yoshihiko (石坂慶彦)

Episode Ratings

! Episode !! Air Date !! Subtitle !! Kanto !! Kansai !! Nationwide |- | 01 || 12.2 || ? || ? |- | 02 || 12.8 || ? || ? |- | 03 || 08.9 || ? || ? |- | 04 || 10.7 || ? || ? |- | 05 || 10.9 || ? || ? |- | 06 || 08.3 || ? || ? |- | 07 || 06.4 || ? || ? |- | 08 || 08.8 || ? || ? |- | 09 || 08.9 || ? || ? |- ! Average || 09.7 || ? || ? |} Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Notes

• The series will be filmed in collaboration with an actual rescue squad in Yokohama.

Recognitions

• TVNavi Magazine Awards [Winter 2009]: Best Newcomer Nakamaru Yuichi (2009)

External Links

• Official site
• Japanese Wikipedia

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