- Team Batista no Eiko
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name = Team Batista no Eiko
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ja_name = チーム・バチスタの栄光
genre =Mystery ,Medical Drama ,Investigate ,Dark Comedy Infobox animanga/Drama
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director =Hisashi Ueda
Kazuhisa Imai
network =Fuji Television
first =October 14 2008
last =
slot = Tuesday at 10 p.m.
episodes =nihongo|"Team Batista no Eiko"|チーム・バチスタの栄光 The Glory of Team Batista is a
Japanese television drama . The best-selling novel that was turned into alive-action film starringYuko Takeuchi and Hiroshi Abe. The drama series will air onFuji Television October 14, 2008 withAtsushi Ito playing the lead. It is based on a novel byTakeru Kaido .In the original novel, Taguchi was a male character, but
Yuko Takeuchi played it as a female character in the movie version. For the drama, Taguchi is a man, andAtsushi Ito has been given the role. Toru Nakamura is replacing Hiroshi Abe as thegovernment official .Synopsis
There exists a legendary team of surgical experts in Tojo University Hospital that specializes in the Batista procedure - one of the most difficult cardiac surgeries with the survival rate only at 60%. Ever since its formation, this team has shocked the country by having 26 consecutive post-operative successes, virtually unheard of in the medical community. They basked in the glory until one day when three recent procedures produced consecutive deaths on the operating table. Taguchi, an internal medicine specialist has been entrusted with the investigation but since he is dealing with skills beyond his realm of expertise, he soon brushes off speculations of murder and deems the deaths accidents. Then arrives Shiratori, a Ministry of Health investigator. He not only labels Taguchi naive but speaks with confidence that this is a murder, and the murderer is within this team of elites. As the mystery unfolds, so does the complicated affiliation between each of the seven team members, will the duo discover the truth in time?
Cast
Cast and roles
*
Atsushi Ito – Kohei Taguchi (28)
* Toru Nakamura – Keisuke Shiratori (42)
*Yu Shirota – Koichiro Himuro (27)
*Yumiko Shaku – Naomi Ootomo (28)
*Tsuyoshi Ihara – Kyoichi Kiryu (45)
*Shingo Tsurumi – Yuji Kakiya (47)
*Hiroki Suzuki – Toshiki Sakai (28)
*Masahiro Toda – Takayuki Haba (40)
*Daisuke Miyagawa – Ryo Narumi (35)
*Yuko Natori – Makoto Fujiwara
*Ryuzo Hayashi – Kenta TakashinaCrew
* Directors –
Hisashi Ueda ,Kazuhisa Imai
* Producers –Yoko Toyofuku ,Koichi Toda ,Kaoru Yamaki
* Original writing –Takeru Kaido
* Screenwriters –Noriko Goto
* Theme Song by –Thelma Aoyama External links
* [http://www.ktv.co.jp/batista/ Official site]
* [http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-3690 News at Tokyograph]
* [http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Team_Batista_no_Eiko Team Batista no Eiko at DramaWiki]
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