Code Blue

16 March 2010 2 Comments

Code Blue


Disc(s): 3DVD


Tagline (English): Doctor Heli – Emergency Lifesaving
Genre: Medical drama
Episodes: 11

Synopsis

If it can be treated one second earlier, the heart might start beating again.
If there is one extra helicopter, another life in danger may be saved.
If one more life can be saved, the Japanese medical community may regain trust.
There are more lives in this country that can be saved.

The “Doctor Helicopter” system was legalized in Japan in June 2007. A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians are assigned to this latest medical system. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally.

Cast

Yamashita Tomohisa as Aizawa Kosaku (Flight doctor-in-training)
Aragaki Yui as Shiraishi Megumi (Flight doctor-in-training)
Toda Erika as Hiyama Mihoko (Flight doctor-in-training)
Higa Manami as Saejima Haruka (Flight nurse)
Asari Yosuke as Fujikawa Kazuo (Flight doctor-in-training)
Kodama Kiyoshi as Tadokoro Yoshiaki (Emergency Unit Chief)
Katsumura Masanobu as Morimoto Tadashi (Flight Doctor)
Ryo as Mitsui Kanna (Flight Doctor)
Yanagiba Toshiro as Kuroda Shuji (Flight Doctor)
Sugimoto Tetta as Saijo Susumu (Brain Surgeon)
Terajima Susumu as Kaji Toshi (Pilot)
Yuui Ryoko as Todoroki Seiko (Communication Specialist)
Hiwatashi Shinji as Anzai Yasuyuki (Co-pilot)
Ikeda Kimiko (池田貴美子) as Ohara Sumiko (Head nurse)
Kaneda Mika (金田美香) as Murata Kaori (nurse)

Guests


Kawashima Umika as Kuriyama Miki (ep1)
Kunimoto Shoken (國本鍾建) as Komura (ep2)
Ninomiya Hiroko (二宮弘子) as Nishiguchi Yae (ep2)
Kurose Tomomi (黒瀬友美) as Yokota Eiko (ep2)
Fukui Hiroaki as Ono Tadashi (ep2)
Taira Chiharu (平良千春) (ep2)
Enjoji Aya as Motoyama Yukiko (ep3)
Sato Akira (佐藤旭) as Motoyama Kunio (ep3)
Torii Kaori (鳥居かほり) as Wakasugi Takako (ep3)
Harumi Shiho (春海四方) as Shimada Yoji (ep3)
Miura Akifumi (三浦アキフミ) as Kogura Yuki (ep3)
Takayama Saki (高山紗希) as Yukimura Minami (ep3)
Yabe Kenji (やべけんじ) as Onodera (ep3)
Yamamoto Michiko (山本道子) as Fujikawa Shizuko (ep4)
Ida Kunihiko as Miyamoto Shigeru (ep4)
Kanai Yuta as Ida Toshio (ep4)
Yamazaki Yuta as Yokoyama (ep5)
Anan Kenji as Makabe Kiyoshi (ep5,7-8)
Shima Kaori (島かおり) as Aizawa Kinue (ep5-8,10-11)
Taguchi Kazumasa (田口主将) as Matsubara Toshio (ep5-6)
Otsuka Yoshie (大塚良重) as Tazawa Toshiko (ep5,7)
Takubo Issei as Kasukabe (ep5-9,11)
Haruki Misayo as Makabe Tomoko (ep5,7)
Otaka Hiroo as Oda Koichi (ep6)
Kitami Toshiyuki as Uemura Hideo (ep6)
Kumabe Yohei (隈部洋平) as Atty. Soma (ep6-9,11)
Hirayama Hiroyuki as Tazawa Satoshi (ep7,11)
Furumoto Shinnosuke (古本新乃輔) as Oyama Tsuneo aka Mary Jane Yoko (ep7)
Hiraga Masaomi as Fukushima Tatsuo (ep8)
Orimoto Junkichi as Fukushima Shigezo (ep8)
Miyaji Masako as Fukushima Kiyomi (ep8)
Taisaku Sora (大作空) as Fukushima Yuna (ep8)
Okunuki Kaoru as Kitamura Yuriko (ep9-11)
Imai Yuki as Kitamura Kenichi (ep9-11)
Umishima Yuki as Kanda Miwako (ep10)
Toyama Toshiya as Sawano Akio (ep11)
Yamashita Yorie as Sawano Yoshie (ep11)
Takagi Ryo (高木涼生) as Sawano Akira (ep11)
Hijii Mika as Konishi (ep11)
Ohashi Tomokazu (大橋智和) as Taniguchi Suguru (ep11)

Awards
58th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Directors – Nishiura Masaki, Hayama Hiroki (葉山浩樹)

Season 2

Code Blue Season 2

  • Episodes: 11
  • Viewership rating: 16.6 (Kanto)
  • Broadcast period: 2010-Jan-11 to 2010-Mar-22
  • Air time: Monday 21:00
  • Theme song: HANABI by Mr.Children

Synopsis

It has been one and a half years since Aizawa Kosaku, Shiraishi Megumi, Hiyama Mihoko and Fujikawa Kazuo were assigned to Shoyo University’s North Hospital. They have only three months left of their fellowship programme (specialised training programme) to be flight doctors and each of them have come to the crossroads where they have to think of their lives after graduation. Aizawa, who has only one relative – a grandmother currently in a nursing home, starts having doubts about his duties and cannot find a clear direction for his future. Meanwhile, Shiraishi Megumi is unable to forget the past. She had caused their former teacher, Kuroda Shuji, to have his right arm amputated. Then Tachibana Keisuke, a veteran flight doctor, takes up a new post. He has been put in charge of certifying the fellowship programme which will decide their future. -Jdrama Weblog

Cast

Guests

Production Credits

Episode Ratings

Episode Ratings
(Kanto)		 Ratings
(Kansai)		 Ratings
(Nationwide)
1 18.8 ? ?
2 17.1 ? ?
3 17.2 ? ?
4 16.2 ? ?
5 16.5 ? ?
6 15.1 ? ?
7 15.9 ? ?
8 15.3 ? ?
9 16.6 ? ?
10 16.8 ? ?
11 16.6 ? ?
Average 16.6 ? ?

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Awards

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General Hospital 2

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General Hospital 2

Disc(s): 4DVD

Genre : Medical drama
 Main Casts : Cha Tae-hyun, Kim Jung-eun, Ryu Jin, Koh Joon-hee, Lee Jae-ryong, Lee Jong-won, Doh Ji-won
 Total Episodes : 17 eps

Synopsis

A young woman passed the bar examination so that she could become a lawyer who helps patients in malpractice cases decides to join a residency after she completes her internship. Then there is the passionate man who is dedicated to saving lives even though he graduated at the bottom of his class in medical school. This drama revolves around the lives of these two people who are 3rd year interns at the same hospital as they mature in their careers.
 The drama will show the camaraderie among fellow doctors and the tensions and relationships that develop in their lives as they work hard to cure patients. Their personal challenges and down-to-earth qualities will warm the hearts of viewers.

Starring

Choi Jin-sang (1st year of residency) / actor Cha Tae-hyun
 His mother who works at a ranch wishes that he’ll become a professor at medical school but during his six years of medical school and first year as an intern, he constantly got into trouble and his grades were at the bottom of the class. When he joins the residency, his fellow colleagues are Hyun-woo, who was always at the top of his class, and Ha-yoon, who passed the bar examination. At the outset, he faces a tough situation. He lacks in every way as a doctor but he’ll go to great lengths to save a patient’s life.

Jung Ha-yoon (1st year of residency) / actress Kim Jung-eun
 After passing the bar examination upon graduating from law school, she decides to join the residency program at a general hospital as a way to prepare herself to become a lawyer who specializes in malpractice cases. With memories of her dad who died from a botched operation, she is compassionate towards patients and has a critical view towards doctors who compromise their values. But while working with her colleagues, she gradually becomes a doctor in her own way and her views also change.

Baek Hyun-woo (1st year of residency) / actor Ryu Jin
 In medical school, he was the top student and Ki-tae recruits him to join the medical research team. He’s an impassionate thinker but he does have a good heart. When Ha-yoon needs help in finding a kidnapper, he does his best to track down the criminal. He develops feelings for her as he helps her in every way he can.
Kang Eun-ji (1st year of residency) / actress Koh Joon-hee

She helped Jin-sang whenever he got in trouble during medical school. During exams, she would share her notes with Jin-sang. But Jin-sang is not aware that she has a crush on him. Though she is glad that Jin-sang is showing himself to be a promising doctor, sshe starts to get worried when Jin-sang and Ha-yoon keep getting into petty arguments…

Kim Do-hoon (Staff doctor) / actor Lee Jae-ryong
 After working for just one year in his residency, he is asked to join the medical staff as a staff doctor. He was once a handful but now he mentors younger doctors. He has a warm heart and one time, he left in the middle of a demonstration for a $20 million state-of-the-art medical device to operate on a patient in the emergency room. He’s a doctor who is dedicated to his work of saving lives and that means he is not so keen on advancing his career.

Han Ki-tae (Staff doctor) / actor Lee Jong-won
 Having the right connections, he’s a star doctor at Sungui University Hospital who is admired by his peers for his skills. Although he is one of the top surgeons in Korea, he selectively chooses the patients he’ll operate on to keep his career unblemished. He becomes the head of a medical research team that is supported by the hospital and becomes adversaries with Do-hoon who has different principles.
Song Hye-soo (ER department staff) / actress Doh Ji-won

As a senior doctor at the ER, where there’s always an emergency happening, she is a skilled surgeon who makes quick calculated decisions. She is a perfectionist at work but also has a softer side that she reveals when she’s around Do-hoon.

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Before and After: Plastic Surgery Clinic

22 February 2010 Leave a comment

Before and After: Plastic Surgery Clinic


Disc(s): 3DVD

Genre : Medical drama
Main Casts : Lee Jin Wook as Han Geon Soo, So Yi Hyun as Hong Ki Nam, Kim Sung Min as Choi Yong Woo, Jung Ae Yun as Yoon Seo Jin.
Total Episodes : 12 eps

Synopsis

A medical drama centered around plastic surgery with a target viewer audience consisting of females in their twenties and thirties. Perhaps this drama can also be described as a social satire commenting on the current boom in plastic surgery in Korea.
What kind of stories do people who seek plastic surgery have to tell?
What kind of lives and personal relationships do doctors and nurses at a plastic surgery clinic have?
Although “Before and After” touches upon a popular Korean trend, plastic surgery has never been the main theme in a Korean TV drama before. Delivering comical and touching moments interspersed within stories of people seeking plastic surgery for a variety of reasons, the drama will bring laughter and tears to viewers as they reflect on the growing popularity of plastic surgery among Koreans.
The stories of people who seek a plastic surgery clinic and the kind of love and work that a medical staff faces in their lives are brought together in this situational drama.
Han Geon Soo is the young clinic owner who tries to protect his clinic from being taken over by loan sharks. He tries his best to save the clinic when uncollected loans are passed on to him after his father’s sudden death. Choi Yong Woo is a talented doctor who joins the clinic to return his thanks to Geon Soo’s father. Yong Woo is someone that often gets into arguments with patients who want to undergo unnecessary plastic surgery. Yoon Ki Nam is the nurse who forms a love triangle between the two men. Yoon Seo Jin is the manager who obtained her perfect beauty through plastic surgery.

Cast:
Hong Ki-nam (age: 24 / B and A Plastic Surgery Clinic, nurse) – actress So Lee-hyun
Graduated from a 2-year nurse college. She believes that personal and business relationships are very important in life. Her mother is a hairdresser while her father, who is jobless, is addicted to gambling. She has two other siblings and grew up in a happy family. She stays positive even under the most difficult circumstances. Oddly, she hates receiving help from others and will always repay anyone who ever lent her any assistance. She’s not keen about staying neat and well-groomed and it shows. She lives at Geon-su’s home rent-free while telling her family that she’s living at a dormitory provided by the clinic. Geon-soo always outsmarts her. At the clinic, Nurse Yang, who oozes with sophistication even among the rich and powerful people in Cheongdam-dong, always takes advantage of her. While watching Doctor Choi Yong-woo operating on a patient, she is charmed by his looks and smitten with love. She is too shy to approach Yong-woo whom she secretly admires…
Han Geon-soo (age: 32 / Specialist in cosmetic surgery, Head doctor of B and A Plastic Surgery Clinic) – actor Lee Jin-wook
Graduates from Seoul National University’s medical school. He believes that it doesn’t hurt to make as much money as you can and date the prettiest girl you can find. As the only son of the late Dr. Han, the most eminent plastic surgeon in the medical field, he was born with a sharp intellect and had a comfortable upbringing. He never experienced failure in his life. Moreover, he has a keen sense of what is beautiful and his reputation as a skilled plastic surgeon grew during his internship. But the unexpected death of his father puts his father’s clinic in financial trouble as a private moneylender demand repayment. On top of these troubles, the nurses and doctors he hired to rescue the clinic’s fortunes turn out to be a handful as they constantly challenge his authority. He gradually becomes attracted to the unsophisticated and ugly Hong Ki-nam who is unlike any of the stunning girls he dated before…
Choi Yong-woo (Specializes in deformities, Former medical staff at a German hospital that is famous for correcting facial deformities) – actor Kim Sung-min
He is more interested in the field of corrective surgery that treats patients with deformities rather than cosmetic surgery. He has a cynical view on the boom in cosmetic surgery. Not only does he sparingly talk about himself, but he also avoids social interaction and personal relationships. Being lonely most of his life, he finds satisfaction when he studies. He discovers his true calling when he meets Dr. Han while he was in high school and so decides to become a doctor who specializes in reconstructive surgery. To repay his debt to Dr. Han, he chooses to help Dr. Han’s son, Geon-soo, but it turns out to be difficult to get along with him.
Yoon Seo-jin (age: 28 / B and A Plastic Surgery Clinic, PR director) – actress Jung Ae-yeon
Born with beautiful looks that were enhanced with plastic surgery, she has a flawless face. She graduated from an elite college and has a fine reputation in the plastic surgery field. She’s a perfectionist who strictly adheres to her daily appointments without the slightest deviation. She abhors doing nothing at work. Most of the time she rarely makes any mistakes or has any embarrassing moments except when Hang-joon is around. Hang-joon is always in the same room when she makes mistakes such as farting out loud. After work, she studies in a master’s degree program and also attends social gatherings to enjoy the high life. After experiencing a painful breakup with a boyfriend in college, she made up her mind to make the first move in approaching someone she likes. Her mother passed away when she was young and so she shares a common background with Geon-soo, who rarely saw his father, who was always too busy to spend any time with him.

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