- Drama: Iryu: Team Medical Dragon
- Romaji: Iryu: Team Medical Dragon
- Japanese: 医龍 Team Medical Dragon
- Director: Naruhide Mizuta
- Writer: Koji Hayashi
- Network: Fuji TV
- Episode: 11
- Release Date: April 13-June 19, 2006
- Runtime: Thurs. 22:00-22:54
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Ryutaro Asada was the chief surgeon of Team Medical Dragon, a globally active emergency medical care team that worked in refugee camps. After his return to Japan, this amazingly talented surgeon starts work at a university hospital, where he uncovers one case of corruption after another and takes on a lot of powerful contenders in this heroic drama. The struggles between the hospital and the patients, the infighting among the hospital staff, and the patients who get involved in those struggles are all depicted in a realistic manner in a drama that has an overwhelming feeling of speed. Here’s a human drama depicting a thrilling battle between life and death, a totally new, outstanding form of entertainment.
Notes
- Related titles:
- Iryu: Team Medical Dragon (Fuji TV / 2006)
- Iryu: Team Medical Dragon 2 (Fuji TV / 2007)
- Iryu: Team Medical Dragon 3 (Fuji TV / 2007)
- Iryu: Team Medical Dragon 4 (Fuji TV / 2013)
Cast
- Kenji Sakaguchi – Ryutaro Asada
- Izumi Inamori – Akira Katou
- Teppei Koike – Noboru Ijyuin
- Sadao Abe – Monji Arase
- Kuranosuke Sasaki – Keisuke Fujiyoshi
- Asami Mizukawa – Miki Satohara
- Mari Natsuki – Shoko Kito
- Kazuki Kitamura – Gunji Kirishima
- Ittoku Kishibe – Takeo Noguchi
- Tetsuhiro Ikeda – Takehiko Kihara
- Masaomi Hiraga – Ryuichi Yamada
- Mion Mukaichi – Juri Tokichi
- Satoru Saito
- Takehisa Takayama
- Shion Machida – ep.1
- Natsuo Ishido – mother (ep.4)
- Junpei Ito – Daisuke Inagaki (ep.4)