Top Knife

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Drama: Top Knife
Romaji: Top Knife: Tensai Nougekai no Joken
Japanese: トップナイフ ―天才脳外科医の条件―
Director: Kyoji Otsuka, Noriyoshi Sakuma, Yoshinori Shigeyama
Writer: Koji Hayashi (novel & screenplay)
Network: NTV
Episodes: 10
Release Date: January 11 - March 14, 2020
Runtime: Saturday 22:00 - 22:54
Genre: Medical
TV Ratings: 11.3%
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Yoko Miyama (Yuki Amami) works as a doctor at Touto Hospital. She specializes in brain aneurysms in the neurosurgery department. She is a good doctor, aware of her responsibilities and importance of her work. She places the patients' life at the top of her priorities. Yoko Miyama becomes involved with her colleagues, including Kengo Kuroiwa, Sachiko Kozukue, and Takuma Nishigoori. Meanwhile, she suffers from guilt for abandoning her family.

Notes

"Top Knife" takes over NTV's Saturday 22:00 time slot previously occupied by "If Talking Paid" and followed by "Detective Novice" on June 27, 2020.
Based on novel "Top Knife" by Koji Hayashi (published December, 2019 by Kawade Bunko).

Cast



Yuki Amami	Kippei Shiina	Alice Hirose	Kento Nagayama	Yuta Furukawa
Yoko Miyama	Kengo Kuroiwa	Sachiko Kozukue	Takuma Nishigori	Tatsuya Kijima



Seiji Fukushi	Misato Morita	Izumi Fujimoto	Mayu Miyamoto	Tomokazu Miura
Go Inukai	Marin Ozawa	Aiko Fushimi	Shizuka Tamai	Takao Imadegawa

Additional Cast Members:

Akira Ohashi - Naoto Oda
Hiyori Sakurada - Mami Sawashiro
Kiara Minegishi - Tamotsu Tanabe
Keiko Horiuchi - Midori Takuma (ep.1)
Satoshi Nikaido - Hiroshi Takuma (ep.1)
Rine Tanaka - Miku Takuma (ep.1)
Erika Osanai - Mari Ueno (ep.1)
Mari Hamada - Kazuko Kuwabara (ep.2)
Wakana Matsumoto - Yukari Makiba (ep.2)
Chika Uchida - Miyuki Tanabe (ep.2,9)
Masayuki Ito - Shigeru Kuwabara (ep.2)
Toko Miura - Chiharu Yamada (ep.2,4-5)
Narushi Ikeda - Ichiro Kanbe (ep.3)
Yuta Kanai - Shinjiro Akasaka (ep.3)
Mantaro Koichi - Shinichi Sawashiro (ep.3-4,7-8,10)
Mie Nakao - Kiwako Yamada (ep.3-5)
Chiho Fujii - Yuri (ep.3)
Yuumi Kawai - Yuko Kanbe (ep.3)
Hirotaro Honda - Kiyoshi Yamaguchi (ep.4)
Toshiki Ayata - Tadashi Uchida (ep.4)
Halo Asada - Mami Sawashiro (young - ep.4)
Hayato Kakizawa - Yuki Kageura (ep.5)
Ayaka Onishi - Marie Negishi (ep.5)
Fukiko Hara - Satoko Ohara (ep.5)
Tomonori Mizuno - Forensic Officer Okubo (ep.5)
Hiroshi Yamamoto - Takuji Osawa (ep.6)
Show Kasamatsu - Tamotsu Harada (ep.6)
Mikako Yoshida - Sayomi Kimoto (ep.6)
Ryunosuke Abe - Anan (ep.6)
Sachie Hara - Shoko Takino (ep.7)
Narumi Kayashima - Hanai (ep.7)
Ryo Kimura - Ikeya (ep.7)
Atom Shukugawa - Nishikawa (ep.7)
Miki Sakai - Kaoru Sawashiro (ep.7-8,10)
Yutaka Shimizu - Kensuke Matsuki (ep.7)
Akio Kaneda - Yoichi Maekawa (ep.7-8)
Hideko Hara - Junko Maekawa (ep.7-8)
Narimi Arimori - Satomi Imadegawa (ep.8-10)
Yuki Katayama - blue dress girl (ep.8)
Kunio Murai - Maezono (ep.9)
Tsurutaro Kataoka - himself (ep.9)
Shinji Rokkaku - private detective (ep.9)
Anne Suzuki - Yoshimi Soeno (ep.9-10)
Kanau Tanaka - Akira Soeno (ep.9-10)

Episode Ratings

Episode	Date	Ratings (Kanto Region)
01	01/11/2020	13.0%
02	01/18/2020	12.4%
03	01/25/2020	12.9%
04	02/01/2020	10.6%
05	02/08/2020	9.1%
06	02/15/2020	10.1%
07	02/22/2020	10.6%
08	02/29/2020	11.0%
09	03/07/2020	11.4%
10	03/14/2020	11.6%
Average		11.3%