Kumo no Kaidan

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Drama: Cloud's Stairs (literal title)
Romaji: Kumo no Kaidan
Japanese: 雲の階段
Director: Ryuichi Inomata, Hitoshi Iwamoto, Hiroshi Yoshino, Ken Higurashi
Writer: Junichi Watanabe (novel), Toshio Terada
Network: NTV
Episodes: 10
Release Date: April 17 - June 19, 2013
Runtime: Wednesday 22:00-22:54
TV Ratings: 9.3% (weekly average)
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Saburo (Hiroki Hasegawa) works at a medical office on The Izu Islands, which has seen its population dwindle over the years. Even though Saburo doesn't have a medical license, he performs operations under the instructions of Dr. Muraki (Kohei Otomo). Because of his gifted dexterity and sincerity, people call him the Young Doctor. Saburo becomes conflicted over his position, but he convinces himself that what he is doing is helping people. Saburo becomes is also loved by nurse Akiko Suzuki (Izumi Inamori) and Akiko Tasaka (Fumino Kimura), who is the daughter of the director of a general hospital in Tokyo.

Notes

Based on novel "Kumo no Kaidan" by Junichi Watanabe (published December 1985 by Kodansha Ltd.).

Cast



Hiroki Hasegawa	Izumi Inamori	Fumino Kimura	Masato Hagiwara	Sho Aoyagi
Saburo Aikawa / Saburo Tasaka	Akiko Suzuki	Akiko Tasaka	Yohei Takaoka	Masaki Nogami



Mio Yuki	Midoriko Kimura	Kazuaki Hankai	Kohei Otomo	Takashi Naito
Sakiko Tasaka	Setsuko Tarumi	Shizuo Miyasaka	Eiji Muraki	Yuichiro Tasaka



Yumi Takigawa	Miwako Ichikawa	David Ito	Keisuke Sano	Natsuko Akiyama
Yoshie Tasaka	Mari Takamiya	Susumu Abiko	Toshihiko Ishiguro	Mayumi Ikegami



Akio Kaneda	Mariko Kaga
Kazuo Hisatune	Kimie Aikawa

Additional Cast Members:

Aoi Nakabeppu - Yukari Kawai
Lasalle Ishii - Kenkichi Takemura
Misato Kashiwagi - Mika Ito
Asuka Shibuya - Junko Kanagawa
Mika Akizuki - Akiko Suzuki (young)
Sayoko - Mai Tsukamoto (ep.1)
Yuki Hiyori - ep.1
Koko Mori - Kinuyo Hasebe (ep.2-3,8)
Tetsushi Tanaka - Takashi Yamanaka (ep.3-4)
Kohei Takeda - Naoya Goto (ep.5)
Takayuki Yanagi - (ep.5)
Kyosuke Yabe - Ryuji‎ Yamamoto (ep.6-7)
Kei Sunaga - Itsuro Satake (ep.7)
Chieko Ichikawa - Kiyo Orihara (ep.7)
Kenkichi Watanabe - Detective Sugihara (ep.9)

Episode Ratings

Episode	Date	Ratings (Kanto Region)
01	04/17/2013	9.2%
02	04/24/2013	9.0%
03	05/01/2013	9.4%
04	05/08/2013	8.3%
05	05/15/2013	8.7%
06	05/22/2013	8.1%
07	05/29/2013	9.4%
08	06/05/2013	9.0%
09	06/12/2013	9.6%
10	06/19/2013	11.8%
Average		9.3%