General Rouge no Gaisen
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General Rouge no Gaisen (ジェネラル・ルージュの凱旋, The Triumphant Return of General Rouge) is a 12-episode Japanese medical drama television series broadcast in 2010, a sequel to the series Team Batista no Eikō. Atsushi Itō and Tōru Nakamura reprised their lead roles.
The initial season of "Team Batista" aired on Fuji TV in late 2008 and pulled in strong ratings, leading to a follow-up last October in the special episode "Nightingale no Chinmoku." The dramas were based on the first two novels in a best-selling medical mystery series by writer Takeru Kaido. The new season is based on the third novel, General Rouge no Gaisen. Both "Team Batista no Eiko" and "General Rouge no Gaisen" have also been adapted as a feature films, starring Yūko Takeuchi and Hiroshi Abe. Fuji TV will broadcast "Team Batista 2: General Rouge no Gaisen" on Tuesdays at 10:00pm, beginning on April 6. New cast members this time include Hidetoshi Nishijima, Ai Kato and Miho Shiraishi.
TV Show
| Team Batista 2 General Rouge no Gaisen | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Medical Drama, Mystery |
| Starring | Atsushi Itō Tōru Nakamura Hidetoshi Nishijima |
| Ending theme | Ikutsu no Yoake wo Kazoetara (Seiko Matsuda) |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Yoko Toyofuku Kōichi Toda Kaoru Yamaki Yasuhiro Mase Kanjiro Sakura Takeshi Sato Takao Tsujii Akihiro Yamauchi |
| Production location | Tokyo |
| Running time | 54 min./episode |
| Original release | |
| Network | Fuji TV |
| Release | April 6 – June 22, 2010 |
Cast
- Atsushi Itō – Kōhei Taguchi (29)
- Tōru Nakamura – Keisuke Shiratori (43)
- Hidetoshi Nishijima – Koichi Hayami (42)
- Ai Kato – Haruka Izumi (29)
- Takayuki Kinoshita (TKO) – Shinji Sato (37)
- Reina Asami – Yayoi Kuriyama (25)
- Tori Matsuzaka – Hideki Takizawa (26)
- Osamu Adachi – Yasutomo Nagayama (25)
- Taro Takeuchi – Kasuhiko Asano (25)
- Keisuke Horibe – Eiji Sasaki
- Go Riju – Daisuke Mifune
- Shigeyuki Totsugi – Takashi Hasegawa (35)
- Miho Shiraishi – Miwa Hanabusa (35)
- Yuko Natori – Makoto Fujiwara
- Ryuzo Hayashi – Kenta Takashina
- Hirotaro Honda – Shida Koichiro
Guest
- Tomoko Tabata – Saki Sugiyama (ep1)
- Takashi Ito – Shimada Takashi (ep1)
- Yuri Mizutani – Miho Takayama (ep1)
- Rinako Matsuoka – Mishima Tisato (ep1)
- Mina Fujii – Aoki Eri (ep2)
- Yuta Kanai – Makoto Sugawara (ep2)
- Tetsu Watanabe – Yasushi Tsukada (ep3)
- Ritsuko Nemoto – Motoko Tsukada (ep3)
- Hirofumi Araki – Hiroyuki Tsukada (ep3)
- Taishi Nakagawa – Hiroyuki Tsukada (young) (ep3)
- Kyusaku Shimada – Kazuo Meguro (ep1-4)
- Leona Hirota – Mitsuko Meguro (ep1,4)
- Sayuri Iwata – Kanae Mayama (ep5)
- Yoko Moriguchi – Midori Mayama (ep5)
- Yumi Asō – Ayako Saitou (ep5,11)
- Dori Sakurada – Kento Yamazaki (ep6)
- Megumi Oji – Noriko Yamazaki (ep6)
- Ren Yagami – Satoshi Teshigawara (ep7)
- Haruka Suenaga – Risako Shimomura (ep7)
- Denden – Shouzo Terauchi (ep7-10)
- Kotono Shibuya – Yumiko Sakazaki (ep8-10)
- Takashi Yamanaka – Tsuyoshi Takeda (ep10-11)
Episode information
| Episode | Title | Writer | Director | Original airdate | Ratings (Kanto) |
Ratings (Kansai) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faint (失神) |
Noriko Goto | Kazuhisa Imai | Apr 6, 2010 22.00 - 23.09 |
12.4 | 14.5 |
| 2 | Hyperventilation (過呼吸) |
Noriko Goto | Kazuhisa Imai | Apr 13, 2010 22.15 - 23.09 |
14.5 | 17.2 |
| 3 | Personality Transformation (人格変貌) |
Akane Yamada | Hisashi Ueda | Apr 20, 2010 22.00 - 22.54 |
14.7 | 15.3 |
| 4 | Myocardial infarction (心筋梗塞) |
Noriko Goto | Shiraki Keiichiro | Apr 27, 2010 22.00 - 22.54 |
14.2 | 14.8 |
| 5 | Pneumonia (肺炎) |
Tomokazu Tokunaga | Kazunari Hoshino | May 4, 2010 22.00 - 22.54 |
12.6 | 14.7 |
| 6 | Aftermath (後遺症) |
Noriko Goto | Kazuhisa Imai | May 11, 2010 22.00 - 22.54 |
14.8 | 16.6 |
| 7 | Poisoning (中毒) |
Noriko Goto | Hisashi Ueda | May 18, 2010 22.00 - 22.54 |
16.0 | 16.3 |
| 8 | Sentence (宣告) |
Noriko Goto | Kazuhisa Imai | May 25, 2010 22.00 - 22.54 |
14.7 | 15.5 |
| 9 | Medical malpractice (医療ミス) |
Tanaka Shinichi | Kazunari Hoshino | June 1, 2010 22.00 - 22.54 |
14.6 | 15.7 |
| 10 | Focus (病巣) |
Tomokazu Tokunaga | Hisashi Ueda | June 8, 2010 22.00 - 22.54 |
13.8 | 15.3 |
| 11 | Memory loss (記憶喪失) |
Noriko Goto | Kazuhisa Imai | June 15, 2010 22.00 - 22.54 |
15.6 | 15.1 |
| 12 | Critical condition (危篤) |
Noriko Goto | Kazuhisa Imai | June 22, 2010 22.10 - 23.14 |
15.1 | 19.2 |
| Viewership ratings: 14.4% (Kanto) & 15.9% (Kansai) | ||||||