Team Medical Dragon
| Team Medical Dragon | |
| 医龍-Team Medical Dragon- (Iryū -Team Medical Dragon-) |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Akira Nagai Taro Nogizaka |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Big Comic Superior |
| Original run | November 1, 2002 – February 26, 2011 |
| Volumes | 25 |
| TV drama | |
| Team Medical Dragon | |
| Directed by | Satoshi Kubota Naruhide Mizuta |
| Produced by | Sōsuke Osabe Yasuyuki Asuyuki |
| Written by | Koji Hayashi |
| Music by | Shin Kono Hiroyuki Sawano |
| Studio | Fuji TV Drama Center |
| Network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | April 13 – June 29, 2006 |
| Episodes | 11 |
| TV drama | |
| Team Medical Dragon 2 | |
| Directed by | Naruhide Mizuta Hiroki Hayama Kazunari Hoshino |
| Produced by | Sosuke Osabe Reiko Misao |
| Written by | Koji Hayashi |
| Music by | Hiroyuki Sawano Shin Kono |
| Studio | Fuji TV Drama Center |
| Network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | October 11 – December 20, 2007 |
| Episodes | 11 |
| TV drama | |
| Team Medical Dragon 3 | |
| Directed by | Naruhide Mizuta Hiroki Hayama Ryo Tanaka |
| Produced by | Tsuneya Watanabe |
| Written by | Koji Hayashi |
| Music by | Hiroyuki Sawano Shin Kono |
| Studio | Fuji TV Drama Center |
| Network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | October 14 – December 16, 2010 |
| Episodes | 10 |
Team Medical Dragon (医龍-Team Medical Dragon- Iryū -Team Medical Dragon-) is a seinen manga about Japanese medical care written by Akira Nagai and drawn by Taro Nogizaka, under medical supervision by Mie Yoshinuma. It has been adapted into the television drama Iryu, Iryu 2, and Iryu 3. The first volume of released on September 30, 2002 in Japan.[1]
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[edit] Summary
"Team Medical Dragon" has been serialized in Big Comic Superior since 2002. It received the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 2005.[2] The story uses a cast of characters and focuses on many problems prevalent in modern Japan medicine, such as medical malpractice, drug trial, and the stagnancy of reform for the troubled health care system.
Akira Nagai, the original creator of the story, was a successful doctor and medical journalist. He died from complications resulting from liver cancer on July 7, 2004.[citation needed]
[edit] TV series
"Team Medical Dragon" was adapted as 3 TV series(until now) starring Kenji Sakaguchi, Izumi Inamori, and Teppei Koike. Season 1 (11 episodes) was aired on Fuji Television at 10:00 pm every Thursday from April 13 to June 29, 2006. Season 2 (11 episodes) was aired from October 11 to December 20, 2007 and Season 3 (10 episodes) was aired from October 14 to December 16, 2010.
[edit] Cast
Main Cast
- Kenji Sakaguchi as Ryūtaro Asada - All Series
- Izumi Inamori as Akira Katō - Season 1&3
- Teppei Koike as Noboru Ijūin - All Season
- Asami Mizukawa as Miki Satohara - Season 1&2
- Sadao Abe as Monji Arase - All Season
- Tetsuhiro Ikeda as Takehiko Kihara - All Season
- Kuranosuke Sasaki as Keisuke Fujiyoshi - All Season
- Mari Natsuki as Shōko Kitō - All Season
- Ittoku Kishibe as Takeo Noguchi - All Season
Others
- Kazuki Kitamura as Gunji Kirishima - Season 1 only
- Yuki Uchida as Kazumi Kataoka - Season 2 only
- Jiro Sato as Kōtarō Matsudaira - Season 2 only
- Nene Otsuka as Nanami Kodaka - Season 2 only
- Kōtarō Shiga as Hideki Zenda - Season 2 only
- Issei Takahashi as Seiji Toyama - Season 2 only
- Yasuhi Nakamura as Hiroto Nomura - Season 2 only
- Kenichi Endou as Keijirō Kuroki - Season 3 only
- Mitsuki Tanimura as Fuyumi Magara - Season 3 only
- Okina Megumi as Kaoru (Bartender/Arase's wife) - Season 1 only
[edit] References
- ^ "ビッグコミックス" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/skygarden/owa/solc_dtl?isbn=4091865615. Retrieved August 4, 2009.
- ^ "小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html. Retrieved August 19, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Team Medical Dragon (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
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