Monday, February 21, 2011

Lives at Emergency -- Code Blue

Konnichiwa minasan! It is been a long time that I did not introduce for Japanese TV drama. So, it is now the time for me to recommend a J-drama to you. It is a medical TV drama, called "Code Blue". This is a TV drama of Year 2008 with 11 episodes.

This TV drama is currently airing on 8TV at 3pm to 4pm on every Sunday. The story is centering on lives of medical staff in an emergency medical service unit using a helicopter. This is an exciting and heartwarming TV drama. The story has assembled a group of young stars and experienced ones. Based on a national proposal for an emergency helicopter system, the series revolves around a service called Doctor Heli that quickly brings medical aid to those needing immediate medical attention.

The actors and actresses are Tomohisa Yamashita (from the TV drama Beat Buzzer), Yui Aragaki (from the movie Koizora/Sky of Love), Erika Toda (from the TV drama BOSS), and Yosuke Asari. These are the 4 main characters of the drama.


Title        : Code Blue / コード・ブルー -ドクターヘリ緊急救命- / Kōdo Burū: Dokutā Heri Kinkyū Kyūmei / Doctor Helicopter Emegency
Genre      : Drama, Medical
Episodes : 11
The "Doctor Helicopter" system was legalized in Japan in June 2007. A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians are assigned to this latest medical system. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally.
If it can be treated one second earlier, the heart might start beating again. If there is one extra helicopter, another life in danger may be saved. If one more life can be saved, the Japanese medical community may regain trust. There are more lives in this country that can be saved.

Casts :

Yamashita Tomohisa as Aizawa Kosaku (Flight doctor-in-training)
Aragaki Yui as Shiraishi Megumi (Flight doctor-in-training)
Toda Erika as Hiyama Mihoko (Flight doctor-in-training)
Higa Manami as Saejima Haruka (Flight nurse)
Asari Yosuke as Fujikawa Kazuo (Flight doctor-in-training)
Kodama Kiyoshi as Tadokoro Yoshiaki (Emergency Unit Chief)
Katsumura Masanobu as Morimoto Tadashi (Flight Doctor)
Ryo as Mitsui Kanna (Flight Doctor)
Yanagiba Toshiro as Kuroda Shuji (Flight Doctor)


Tomohisa Yamashita stars as a young training "flight doctor," Aizawa Kousaku who is a talented doctor and appears arrogant at times while Yui Aragaki (Shiraishi Megumi) , Erika Toda (Hiyama Mihoko), and Yosuke Asari (Fujikawa Kazuo) play his fellow "flight doctors" in training and "rivals".

Yui is an observant and caring doctor but she lacks the confidence that Aizawa has and always supresses her emotions. Hiyama is a straight forward person and one scene that touches me in the earlier episodes was when she was not afraid to admit that she could not cope alone with the injured pregnant lady and seeked help from her mentor. After the incident, she acknowledged her failings and works hard to fulfill her dream of being a "flight doctor". Among the 4 of them, Fujikawa appears to be the weakest in term of his medical skills. However in episode 1, he was assigned to take care of Kuriyma, a 15 old year girl who was suffering from kidney failure and diabetes and has to go through dialysis daily. She had to amputate one of her hands and Fujikawa was very caring towards her and identifies with her fear and encourages her not to give up on life. I'm sure lot of viewers were touched like me :>


The training "flight doctors" are guided by a skilled team of "flight doctors," played by Toshiro Yanagiba (Kuroda Shuji), Ryo (Mitsui Kanna), and Masanobu Katsumura (Morimoto Tadashi). Kuroda is a strict mentor and believes that only the best (meaning talented and observant doctor) is qualified to become a "flight doctor" and encourages rivalry among the training "flight doctors" so as to bring out the best in them. Mitsui believes in letting the training "flight doctors" explore and giving them opportunities to be independent so that they can learn through their experiences and become real "flight doctors" .

Besides the casts above, there are also many guest stars in this drama. Eg. Kawashima Umika, Kunimoto Shoken, Kurose Tomomi, and many more in every episodes of the drama. Personally, I like all the 4 training doctors of the drama as they are having different characters in each of them.

Let us take a preview of some scenes from the drama.














If you are interested to catch this exciting and heartwarming medical drama, please click Code Blue.

Enjoy watching! :)

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