The Great White Tower
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Profile
- TV Show: The Great White Tower
- Romaji: Shiroi Kyoto
- Japanese: 白い巨塔
- Director: Keita Kono, Hiroshi Nishitani
- Writer: Yumiko Inoue, Toyoko Yamazaki (novel)
- Network: Fuji TV
- Episodes: 21
- Release Date: October 9, 2003 - March 18, 2004
- Runtime: Thurs. 22:00
- TV Rating: 23.71%
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
An striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Goro Zaizen, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary surgeon Shuji Satomi, who selflessly continues a quest to save human lives.This serious drama depicts the lives of these two contrasting personalities and the people around them.The Great White Tower returns again to the television screen for the first time in 25 years! The Great White Tower is the title of a representative novel by Toyoko Yamazaki that depicts the hidden side of the medical world and the dignity of human life, thus shocking and moving many readers, marking a milestone in medical dramas.A dense human drama develops starting with the first half, which depicts the tragicomic circumstances arising from human ambition in the selection of professors, and proceeding to the second half, which inquires into the dignity of human life through a medical court case involving a malpractice suit.
Cast
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| Toshiaki Karasawa | Yosuke Eguchi | Hitomi Kuroki | Akiko Yada | Takataro Kataoka |
| Goro Zaizen | Shuji Satomi | Keiko Hanamori | Saeko Azuma | Tomohiro Tsukuda |
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| Masato Ibu | Mayumi Wakamura | Naomi Nishida | Yumiko Nogawa | Junko Ikeuchi |
| Ryouichi Ugai | Kyoko Zaizen | Kimiko Kameyama | Norie Ugai | Kinu Kurokawa |
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| Hideaki Ito | Koji Ishizaka | Toshiyuki Nishida | Kuranosuke Sasaki | Ikki Sawamura |
| Hiroshi Yanagihara | Teizo Azuma | Matachi Zaizen | Yuta Takeuchi | Noboru Kikukawa |
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