The Great White Tower ( Air Date 2003-10-09 ) Genre Drama category. Overview "A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi Shuji, who selflessly continues a quest to save human lives. The Great White Tower is the title of a representative novel by Toyoko Yamazaki that depicts the hidden side of the medical world and the dignity of human life, thus shocking and moving many readers, marking a milestone in medical dramas. A dense human drama develops starting with the first half, which depicts the tragicomic circumstances arising from human ambition in the selection of professors, and proceeding to the second half, which inquires into the dignity of human life through a medical court case involving a malpractice suit.".
The Great White Tower
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- Stars: Toshiaki Karasawa, Yosuke Eguchi, Hitomi Kuroki, Akiko Yada, Maki Mizuno, Masatô Ibu, Koji Ishizaka, Atsuko Takahata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Mayumi Wakamura, Tōru Shinagawa, Ikki Sawamura, Tae Kimura, Hideaki Ito, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Naomi Nishida, Rino Katase, Takaya Kamikawa, Mitsuhiro Oikawa
- Director: Kawakami Kazuo, Takahashi Kazuhiko, Takashi Kako, Keita Kono, Yumiko Inoue, Hiroshi Nishitani, Toyoko Yamasaki
