Code Blue

Code Blue ~Doctor Heli Kinkyuu Kyumei

Details

Title: コード・ブルー
Title (English): Code Blue
Tagline: ドクターヘリ緊急救命 /Doctor Heli Kinkyuu Kyumei
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Medical drama
Viewership rating: 15.6 (Kanto)
Episodes: 11
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2008-Jul-03 to 2008-Sep-12
Air time: Thursday 22:00
Theme song: HANABI by Mr.Children

Synopsis

If it can be treated one second earlier, the heart might start beating again.
If there is one extra helicopter, another life in danger may be saved.
If one more life can be saved, the Japanese medical community may regain trust.
There are more lives in this country that can be saved.

The "Doctor Helicopter" system was legalized in Japan in June 2007. A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians are assigned to this latest medical system. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally. --Fuji TV

Cast

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Yamashita Tomohisa as Aizawa Kosaku (Flight doctor-in-training)
Aragaki Yui as Shiraishi Megumi (Flight doctor-in-training)
Toda Erika as Hiyama Mihoko (Flight doctor-in-training)
Higa Manami as Saejima Haruka (Flight nurse)
Asari Yosuke as Fujikawa Kazuo (Flight doctor-in-training)
Kodama Kiyoshi as Tadokoro Yoshiaki (Emergency Unit Chief)
Katsumura Masanobu as Morimoto Tadashi (Flight Doctor)
Ryo as Mitsui Kanna (Flight Doctor)
Yanagiba Toshiro as Kuroda Shuji (Flight Doctor)
Sugimoto Tetta as Saijo Susumu (Brain Surgeon)
Terajima Susumu as Kaji Toshi (Pilot)
Yuui Ryoko as Todoroki Seiko (Communication Specialist)
Hiwatashi Shinji (樋渡真司) as Anzai Yasuyuki (Co-pilot)
Ikeda Kimiko (池田貴美子) as Ohara Sumiko (Head nurse)
Kaneda Mika (金田美香) as Murata Kaori (nurse)

Guests

Kawashima Umika as Kuriyama Miki (ep1)
Kunimoto Shoken (國本鍾建) as Komura (ep2)
Ninomiya Hiroko (二宮弘子) as Nishiguchi Yae (ep2)
Kurose Tomomi (黒瀬友美) as Yokota Eiko (ep2)
Fukui Hiroaki as Ono Tadashi (ep2)
Taira Chiharu (平良千春) (ep2)
Enjoji Aya as Motoyama Yukiko (ep3)
Sato Akira (佐藤旭) as Motoyama Kunio (ep3)
Torii Kaori (鳥居かほり) as Wakasugi Takako (ep3)
Harumi Shiho (春海四方) as Shimada Yoji (ep3)
Miura Akifumi (三浦アキフミ) as Kogura Yuki (ep3)
Takayama Saki (高山紗希) as Yukimura Minami (ep3)
Yabe Kenji (やべけんじ) as Onodera (ep3)
Yamamoto Michiko (山本道子) as Fujikawa Shizuko (ep4)
Ida Kunihiko as Miyamoto Shigeru (ep4)
Kanai Yuta as Ida Toshio (ep4)
Yamazaki Yuta as Yokoyama (ep5)
Anan Kenji as Makabe Kiyoshi (ep5,7-8)
Shima Kaori (島かおり) as Aizawa Kinue (ep5-8,10-11)
Taguchi Kazumasa as Matsubara Toshio (ep5-6)
Otsuka Yoshie (大塚良重) as Tazawa Toshiko (ep5,7)
Takubo Issei as Kasukabe (ep5-9,11)
Haruki Misayo as Makabe Tomoko (ep5,7)
Otaka Hiroo as Oda Koichi (ep6)
Kitami Toshiyuki as Uemura Hideo (ep6)
Kumabe Yohei (隈部洋平) as Atty. Soma (ep6-9,11)
Hirayama Hiroyuki as Tazawa Satoshi (ep7,11)
Furumoto Shinnosuke (古本新乃輔) as Oyama Tsuneo (ep7)
Hiraga Masaomi as Fukushima Tatsuo (ep8)
Orimoto Junkichi as Fukushima Shigezo (ep8)
Miyaji Masako as Fukushima Kiyomi (ep8)
Taisaku Sora (大作空) as Fukushima Yuna (ep8)
Okunuki Kaoru as Kitamura Yuriko (ep9-11)
Imai Yuki as Kitamura Kenichi (ep9-11)
Umishima Yuki as Kanda Miwako (ep10)
Toyama Toshiya as Sawano Akio (ep11)
Yamashita Yorie as Sawano Yoshie (ep11)
Takagi Ryo (高木涼生) as Sawano Akira (ep11)
Hijii Mika as Konishi (ep11)
Ohashi Tomokazu (大橋智和) as Taniguchi Suguru (ep11)

Production Credits

Screenwriter: Hayashi Hiroshi (林宏司)
Producer: Masumoto Jun (増本淳)
Director: Nishiura Masaki, Hayama Hiroki (葉山浩樹)
Music: Sato Naoki

Episode Information

Episode	Subtitle	Kanto	Kansai	Nationwide
01	Decision	21.2	20.2	??.?
02	Responsibility	16.0	16.2	??.?
03	Sudden Change	16.0	16.2	??.?
04	Mother's Love	13.2	??.?	??.?
05	The Past	15.7	??.?	??.?
06	Unconditional Love	15.6	??.?	??.?
07	Confession	10.8	??.?	??.?
08	Unavoidable Decision	13.4	??.?	??.?
09	Broken Bond	15.8	??.?	??.?
10	Wavering Heart	14.9	??.?	??.?
11	Life and Death	19.5	??.?	??.?
Average	--	15.6	??.?	??.?

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Awards

58th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Directors - Nishiura Masaki, Hayama Hiroki (葉山浩樹)

External Links

Spring 2008	Fuji TV	Autumn 2008
Last Friends	Thursday 22:00	Kaze no Garden