Iryu
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Details
- Title: 医龍
- Title (romaji): Iryu ~Team Medical Dragon~
- Episodes: 11
- Genre: Medical
- Viewership rating: 14.75%
- Broadcast network: Fuji TV
- Broadcast period: 2006-Apr-13 to 2006-Jun-29
- Air time: Thursday 22:00
- Theme song: Believe by AI
Synopsis
Ryutaro Asada is enjoying his peaceful life in the countryside, when he is visited by Akira Kato, assistant professor of the Faculty of Cardiac Surgery at Meishin University Medical Hospital.
Ryutaro is a genius surgeon who used to lead "Team Medical Dragon," a world-class NGO medical team. In harsh environments that lacked medicine and electricity, Ryutaro witnessed many lives pass away. At the same time, he saved many other lives, helping his matchless skill overwhelm other doctors.
As a female doctor, Akira managed to become an assistant professor. She has ambitions to be promoted to professor by succeeding in a surgery using the Batista technique — an extremely difficult type of heart surgery — and also by writing a paper on it. A year ago, Akira witnessed Ryutaro's skills when he was an NGO doctor. That's why she recruits him and asks him to use the Batista technique. Since Ryutaro's arrival, urgent patients who would have been abandoned in the past, are miraculously saved by the "hands of God."
But Ryutaro's actions cause a stir in the closed university hospital, where power struggles happen everyday and the priority of doctors is to protect themselves. This environment doesn't stop Ryutaro from following his beliefs. Ryutaro's existence also bothers Dr. Noguchi, professer of the Faculty of Cardiac Surgery, the power broker of the hospital.
There is a man keeping a very watchful eye on Akira and Ryutaro's Batista team. It's Gunji Kirishima, Akira's boyfriend and assistant professor at a rival hospital. He and Akira have promised each other to carry on Japan's cardiosurgery. Gunji has also confronted Ryutaro in the past.
Other characters include Miki Satohara, an extremely brilliant nurse who looks up to Ryutaro and has more medical knowledge than the average doctor; Noboru Ijuin, an intern that first opposes Ryutaro, but is gradually influenced by him; and Professor Kito, who is looking for the opportunity to recruit Ryutaro away to the Emergency Room (ER). --Fuji TV
Cast
- Sakaguchi Kenji as Asada Ryuutarou
- Inamori Izumi as Katou Akira
- Mizukawa Asami as Satohara Miki
- Koike Teppei as Ijyuuin Noboru
- Natsuki Mari as Kitou Shoko
- Kitamura Kazuki as Kirima Gunji
- Abe Sadao as Arase Monji
- Sasaki Kuranosuke as Fujiyoshi Keishi
- Kishibe Ittoku as Noguchi Keno
Production Credits
- Producer: 長部聡介, 東康之
- Director: 久保田哲史, 水田成英
- Screenwriter: 林宏司, original by 乃木坂太郎 (『医龍-Team Medical Dragon-』)
- Music: Kono Shin (河野伸), Sawano Hiroyuki (澤野弘之)
Episode Ratings
- Ep 01: 14.1%
- Ep 02: 14.1%
- Ep 03: 14.1%
- Ep 04: 14.7%
- Ep 05: 14.8%
- Ep 06: 15.1%
- Ep 07: 12.7%
- Ep 08: 16.6%
- Ep 09: 13.8%
- Ep 10: 15.1%
- Ep 11: 17.2%
Awards
- 49th Television Drama Academy Awards : Best Drama
- 49th Television Drama Academy Awards : Best BGM
- 49th Television Drama Academy Awards : Best Director
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