Kokou no Mesu

Details

 * Title: 孤高のメス
 * Title (romaji): Kokou no Mesu
 * Also known as: A Lone Scalpel
 * Format: Renzoku
 * Genre: Medical
 * Episodes: 8
 * Broadcast network: WOWOW
 * Broadcast period: 2019-Jan-13 to 2019-Mar-03
 * Air time: Sunday 22:00

Synopsis
Back in the late 1980s when organ transplants were considered taboo, surgeon Toma Tetsuhiko (Takizawa Hideaki) who trained in the US, the land of advanced medical care, was assigned to a public hospital in a rural area. With the belief that “People should be able to get the same care in a rural hospital as at a university hospital,” Toma takes on of all kinds of difficult surgeries, and saves the life of patients in front of him. However, authoritarianism and medical system holding on to old customs were standing in the way of Japan’s first organ transplant surgery.

Cast

 * Takizawa Hideaki as Toma Tetsuhiko
 * Nakamura Toru
 * Kudo Asuka
 * Yamamoto Mizuki
 * Ishimaru Kanji
 * Nagatsuka Kyozo
 * Miyakawa Ichirota
 * Riju Go
 * Miura Masaki
 * Kondo Koen
 * Musaka Naomasa
 * Honda Hirotaro
 * Kimura Midoriko

Production Credits

 * Original work: Novel Kokou no Mesu: Gekai Toma Tetsuhiko by Takayama Roran
 * Screenwriter: Maekawa Yoichi (前川洋一)
 * Director: Uchikata Akira
 * Music: Haneoka Kei