- Drama: Asagao: Forensic Doctor (English title) / Medical Examiner Asagao (literal title)
- Romaji: Kansatsui Asagao
- Japanese: 監察医 朝顔
- Director: Shin Hirano, Kensaku Sawada, Masakazu Abe
- Writer: Masahito Kagawa (manga), Naomi Kimura (manga), Nonji Nemoto
- Network: Fuji TV
- Episodes: 11
- Release Date: July 8 – September 23, 2019
- Runtime: Monday 21:00-21:54
- TV Ratings: 12.6%
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Asagao (Juri Ueno) is a rookie forensic scientist, who works at a university forensic medicine class in Kanagawa Prefecture. She is a licensed doctor and respected by those around her. Asagao lives with her father Taira (Saburo Tokito), who is a veteran detective. Asago’s mother died in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake disaster and her mother’s body was never found.
One day, Asagao’s forensic medicine class unexpectedly works with the investigation section of the police department. When a dead body is found, the dead body is transferred to Asagao’s forensic medicine class. Asagao now works with her detective father.
Notes
- “Medical Examiner Asagao” takes over Fuji TV‘s Monday 21:00 time slot previously occupied by “Radiation House” and followed by “Sherlock: Untold Stories” on October 7, 2019.
- Based on manga series “Kansatsui Asagao” by Masahito Kagawa (writer) & Naomi Kimura (illustrator) (published from 2006 to 2013 by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha).
- Related titles (drama series):
- Asagao: Forensic Doctor | Kansatsui Asagao (Fuji TV / 2019)
- Asagao: Forensic Doctor 2 | Kansatsui Asagao 2 (Fuji TV / 2020)
Cast
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| Juri Ueno | Saburo Tokito | Shunsuke Kazama | Mirai Shida | Akiyoshi Nakao |
| Asagao Maki | Taira Maki | Shinya Kuwahara | Mitsuko Yasuoka | Ryosuke Takahashi |
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| Shintaro Morimoto | Akane Sakanoue | Shigeyuki Totsugi | Kami Hiraiwa | Hikari Ishida |
| Takuma Morimoto | Erika Aikawa | Nobukiko Yamakura | Emi Todo | Satoko Maki |
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| Hiroki Miyake | Itsuji Itao | Tomoko Yamaguchi | Akira Emoto | Shunji Tagawa |
| Jun Ito | Masashi Todo | Chako Natsume | Hiroyuki Shimada | Shota Kumada |
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| Yuzuna Kato | Udanji Ichikawa | Tetta Sugimoto |
| Tsugumi Kuwahara | Joji Kozaki | Daisaku Maruya |
Additional Cast Members:
- Mayu Miyamoto – Hideko Watanabe
- Yoichiro Saito – Koji Okajima
- Kisetsu Fujiwara – Munenori Okita
- Noa Kita – Kayo Ono
- Shinobu Otake – Miyuki Okudera
- Kizuki – Saburo Asai
- Kinuwo Yamada – Keiko Sakurai (ep.1)
- Kouji Tsujimoto – Akihiko Sakurai (ep.1)
- Sari Awano – Saki Sakurai (ep.1)
- Yota Kawase – Ryoichi Suzuki (ep.2)
- Tsutomu Takahashi – Tadokoro (ep.2)
- Show Kasamatsu – Shimizu (ep.2)
- Ryu Morioka – Yuichi Inoue (ep.3)
- Kaito Mifune – Koji Inoue (ep.3)
- Takashi Ukaji – Yagami (ep.3,10)
- Yu Kamio – Section Chief Motomiya (ep.3)
- Misuzu Kanno – Doctor Onodera (ep.4)
- Yorie Yamashita – housewife (ep.4)
- Tomoko Takaya – ob-gyn doctor (ep.4)
- Tomoyuki Takagi – hazmat suit crew (ep.4)
- Yoshinori Okada – Yuhei Nakajima (ep.5)
- Hisao Kanno – Shuzo Nakajima (ep.5)
- Reiko Kataoka – Tae Kuroiwa (ep.6)
- Yuri Tsunematsu – Misaki Kuroiwa (ep.6)
- Seiran Kobayashi – Yuri Kuroiwa (ep.6)
- Ryuhei Ueshima – arrested thief (ep.6)
- Narimi Arimori – Arisa Shirakawa (ep.7)
- Mirai Yamamoto – Keiko Ishida (ep.7)
- Masahiro Toda – Lawyer Ohara (ep.7)
- Arata Saeki – Matsunaga (ep.7)
- Daisuke Miyaji – presiding judge (ep.7)
- Shota Watanabe – Tatsuya Yamamoto (ep.8)
- Hideyuki Kasahara – Keisuke Akai (ep.10-11)
- Junki Tozuka – medical student (ep.10)
- Takehiro Murata – Yoshino (ep.11)
- Takashi Kodama – Takayoshi Shiraishi (ep.11)
- Kousaku Isahaya – Sano (ep.11)
- Ryoko Yuui – morgue staff (ep.11)
- Jyubun Fukuzawa – dentist (ep.11)
- Tatsuya Yamaguchi
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