Team Batista no Eikō (2008)
Team Batista no Eikō is a Japanese mystery film and television show adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Takeru Kaidō. The story revolves around a hospital with a team of doctors known for their success with a type of heart surgery. After a series of failed operations that result in the patient's death, an internal investigation is initiated, led by a doctor named Taguchi and a brash government official. In the original novel the main character Taguchi, was a male doctor in his forties. However, for the film adaptation TBS suggested replacing the character with a young female resulting in Yuko Takeuchi being cast as in the role. For the TV show, Taguchi is a man, with Atsushi Itō playing the role.
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Cast:
- Hiroshi Abe
- Akio Yokoyama – Shuzo Taguchi
- Atsushi Itō – Kōhei Taguchi
- Chika Uemura – Kyoko Hoshino
- Daisuke Miyagawa – Ryo Narumi
- Hiroki Suzuki – Toshiki Sakai
- Hoka Kinoshita – Tamotsu Kishikawa
- Kaoru Okunuki – Kishikawa Marie
- Kim Ji Sun – Kanako Miyahara
- Masahiro Toda – Takayuki Haba
- Mikeo Ishii – Akane Taguchi
- Risa Saiki – Midori Taguchi
- Ryuzo Hayashi – Kenta Takashina
- Shingo Tsurumi – Yūji Kakitani
- Takaaki Enoki – Ichirō Kurosaki
- Yuko Takeuchi
- Tsuyoshi Ihara – Kyoichi Kiryu
- Yuko Natori – Makoto Fujiwara
- Yumiko Shaku – Naomi Otomo
- Yū Shirota – Kōichirō Himuro