Japanese WOWOW TV series "The Scalpel" aired its last episode last Sunday, and since then, the eight-episode medical drama that started on January 13 has been completed.
▲ Starring: Hideaki Takizawa, Hiroshi Nakamura, Kyozo Nagatsuka, Kenji Ishimaru, Kudo Asuka , Mitsuki Yamamoto, Ichirota Miyagawa, Hirota Rishitaka, Kondo Park, Mikumura Miura, Masaki Miura, Naoshimasa, Honda Hirotaro, Machiko Washio
"The Scalpel" is a work that will stop the film when Japanese national idol Hideaki Takizawa bid farewell to the pre-stage acting career. On January 16, Takizawa Hideaki officially took office as the president of "Johnny's Island", a subsidiary of Johnny's Office, and was responsible for the company's management and discovery of newcomers. Takki became the behind-the-scenes manipulator of Johnny's and turned into a handsome president.
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In the last work before retirement of "The Scalpel", Takizawa Hideaki plays a surgeon who works in a rural hospital. When Dr. Ma returned from studying in the United States. In order to realize his ambitions and devote himself to local medical career, he worked in a country hospital where his senior Shimada Koji (played by Ishimamaru Kenji), and was respected by young surgeon Takazo Aoki (played by Kudo Asuka) and equipment nurse Shoko Okawa (played by Mitsuki Yamamoto), and also appreciated each other with Associate Professor Takashi Mikawa (played by Yuki Nakamura), who is also an overseas returnee elite. Takki is still handsome in a white coat and elegant.
"The Scalpel" story set in Japan in the late 1980s. At that time, organ transplantation was still a forbidden area for surgery. Although the surgical technology was mature, there were still people who were incompatible with the law, old medical forces and other obstacles. There is a detail in the play. A heart transplant was performed in Japan in the 1960s, but it ended in failure. The surgeon was even charged with murder. In the last episode, Dr. Ma was also sued by opposition after completing a brain-death liver transplant. However, it was a kind of improvement that the lawsuit was withdrawn after the mother of the organ donor and the recipient held a press conference to announce the truth. From the perspective of the medical system, doctors in different interest groups and situations also have different attitudes towards transplant surgery.
Conservative
High-powered medical old forces have formed a conservative camp. For example, the directors of the liver transplant research association in the play, they only want to gain respect in reputation, and blame Dr. Dangma for "taking first and then making a fuss" to steal the limelight and regard these doctors who go around the way as thorns in their eyes, but they are the "old harm" that hinders the development of medicine.
fence-treasure
There are also some doctors who are fence-treasure treasures, such as Dr. Shichuan’s boss Professor Bubu (played by Li Chonggang). At first, he disagreed with Shikawa for a liver transplant at the university hospital, but after hearing that the successful transplant was a favorable factor for the election of the president, he immediately urged Shikawa to succeed in the operation and immediately cleared the relationship at the press conference after the patient died unfortunately. In the end, the dean lost the election and died.
despicable villain
What's more, despicable villain who only fan the flames and drags his legs, such as Dr. Nomoto (played by Miyagawa Ichirota) who was sent to a rural hospital in a university hospital. He was not good at medical skills and wanted to be promoted. When Dr. Ma came to the hospital, he was jealous of Dangma's ability and judged a gentleman's abdomen with a villain's heart, believing that Dangma saved his life and helped the wounded to climb up. When he heard that Dangma wanted to work with Shikawa to perform an organ transplant, he actually revealed the news to the media, doing his best to slander it. Later, he canvassed votes everywhere to run for the position of professor and ignored his patients. In the end, Professor Shikawa, who was promoted, ended up being unilaterally fired.
Reformer
Even reformer , even a reformer like Dr. Shikawa, died of the first living liver transplant surgery, and his mentality also changed. He wanted to gain power and change Japan's medical system. In order to become a professor, he actually gave up a life that could have been saved by a transplant; in order to be the director of the Liver Transplant Research Association, he gave up the invitation to do a brain death transplant with Dr. Ma.
The lone doctor
Kolin found that "The lone scalpel" is a little different from the medical dramas I watched before. In this drama, the mortality rate of patients is very high. In just eight episodes, four characters who are closely related to the plot development die, including Dr. Ma's mother and the first patient who received a liver transplant. This would be a gold medal for avoiding death in other medical dramas.
Does Dr. Ma and Shikawa are quack doctors with poor medical skills? Obviously not. That's because some doctors dare to face the death of patients, while others have other purposes. In the eyes of doctors who are based on saving lives and helping the wounded, the patient's life will also deteriorate due to the scattered interests. Surgery, including organ transplantation, is no longer the doctor's responsibility to save lives, but a bargaining chip other than the value of life, money and power.
Therefore, a doctor like Dr. Dangma, who only has patients in his eyes, whether he is lying in front of the operating table is a kind and friendly canteen aunt or the mayor with heavy responsibilities, or even if his mother is lying in front of him, he will do his best without distractions and devote all his knowledge to scalpel , aloof and outstanding, leaving no regrets. Even if the patient dies, he has a clear conscience, what are you afraid to face? This is the real doctor!
Doctor Shikawa also clearly realizes that his and others' scalpels have their own purposes, and Dr. Ma's scalpel has no ambitions and just simply considers the patient, so it is a "single scalpel".
Why did Takki hand over his last role as an actor to a country doctor? I believe that after watching the above plot refinement, you will get the answer. However, Kobayashi also plans to say a few more points from the extension of the work and the production of the TV series.
The Japanese drama "The Scalpel" is adapted from the novel of the same name. The original author Minorhiko Ohara himself is a doctor dedicated to the development of local medical care. Although Kobayashi has never read the original work, the Japanese drama has a relatively specific description of the surgical process and local medical system, which must be supported by the script. The screenwriter of this drama, Yoichi Maekawa, has also adapted many well-known original works, such as "Air Tire", "Bin and Ei", "The Unset Sun", etc. Before the Japanese version of "The Scalpel", there was a movie version released in 2010, starring Shiichi Toshikawa, Yui Natsugawa, Yui Yoshizawa, Hiroki Narimiya and others. Let's compare two similar stills.
"The Scalpel of the Aloof" (2010)
"The Scalpel of the Aloof" (2019)
In addition, most of the TV series on WOWOW pay TV stations are social themes and the style is realistic. The present "The Scalpel" is also cold in color, but not cold in color. The plot is promoted without being impatient or impetuous, and it is not deliberately or exaggerated. The grasp of texture and rhythm is also at the same time. The surgical scenes in the play are quite realistic than other medical dramas. They strive to restore the process and steps of the real surgery, and distinguish the human organs during the surgery. For example, a healthy liver and a liver with cirrhosis show the real-life details, but they will not be too bloody, and the close-up of the organs will only last for a second or two.
Friends who like to watch medical dramas and are interested in topics of life and death and human nature. It is recommended to watch this retired work by Hideaki Takizawa, "The Scalpel of the Aloof" and you will get a different medical drama.
