A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi Shuji, 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 Yamazaki Toyoko 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.
the title of a representative novel by Yamazaki Toyoko 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.
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Actor
Watanabe Kenkichi
Kamikawa Takaya
Kobayashi Masahiro
Nakahara Takeo
Ishizaka Koji
Hiraizumi Sei
Tayama Ryosei
Sawamura Ikki
Okunuki Kaoru
Eguchi Yosuke
Kitahara Shuji
Nogawa Yumiko
Miura Rieko
Screenwriter
Inoue Yumiko
Hashimoto Shinobu
Director
Nishitani Hiroshi
Kono Keita
Yamamoto Satsuo
Producer
Takahashi Manhiko
Composer
Kako Takashi
Ikeno Sei
Writer (Book/Manga)
Yamazaki Toyoko
Art Director
Mano Shigeo
Cinematographer
Kaitani Shinichi
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The story is about politics and power struggle among doctors at a hospital.Friends can switch allegience and enemies can turn supportive in split seconds. Dr.Jang Joon Hyeok (Kim Myung Min) was an ambitous surgeon who wanted nothing more than to be the department head when his boss retired.His effor...
An idealistic banker takes on corruption and wrongdoing at his large corporate bank. While forging ties with some unlikely allies, he must use his financial expertise, his instincts about human nature, and his skills of improvisation to try to stay one step ahead of his powerful enemies. (Source: I...
This drama is set in the late 1960s decade of Japan and depicts the rivalry between Manpyo Daisuke, a powerful banker, and his eldest son, Manpyo Teppei, the executive managing director of a steel firm. For reasons not yet entirely clear, Daisuke seems to dislike his own son and when Teppei finds ou...
Iki Tadashi is a military leader who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years of work in a hard prison camp in Siberia. After 11 years in prison, he was released. He returned to Japan and began to adapt to civilian life, refusing his...
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Actor
Watanabe Kenkichi
Kamikawa Takaya
Kobayashi Masahiro
Nakahara Takeo
Ishizaka Koji
Hiraizumi Sei
Tayama Ryosei
Sawamura Ikki
Okunuki Kaoru
Eguchi Yosuke
Kitahara Shuji
Nogawa Yumiko
Miura Rieko
Screenwriter
Inoue Yumiko
Hashimoto Shinobu
Director
Nishitani Hiroshi
Kono Keita
Yamamoto Satsuo
Producer
Takahashi Manhiko
Composer
Kako Takashi
Ikeno Sei
Writer (Book/Manga)
Yamazaki Toyoko
Art Director
Mano Shigeo
Cinematographer
Kaitani Shinichi
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The story is about politics and power struggle among doctors at a hospital.Friends can switch allegience and enemies can turn supportive in split seconds. Dr.Jang Joon Hyeok (Kim Myung Min) was an ambitous surgeon who wanted nothing more than to be the department head when his boss retired.His effor...
An idealistic banker takes on corruption and wrongdoing at his large corporate bank. While forging ties with some unlikely allies, he must use his financial expertise, his instincts about human nature, and his skills of improvisation to try to stay one step ahead of his powerful enemies. (Source: I...
This drama is set in the late 1960s decade of Japan and depicts the rivalry between Manpyo Daisuke, a powerful banker, and his eldest son, Manpyo Teppei, the executive managing director of a steel firm. For reasons not yet entirely clear, Daisuke seems to dislike his own son and when Teppei finds ou...
Iki Tadashi is a military leader who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years of work in a hard prison camp in Siberia. After 11 years in prison, he was released. He returned to Japan and began to adapt to civilian life, refusing his...