Shiroi Kyotō

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name = Shiroi Kyoto (film)


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director = Satsuo Yamamoto
producer = Masaichi Nagata
writer = Shinobu Hashimoto
Toyoko Yamasaki (novel)
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starring = Jiro Tamiya
Eijiro Tono
Takahiro Tamura
music = Sei Ikeno
cinematography = Nobuo Munekawa
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distributor = Daiei Motion Picture Co. Ltd.
released = flagicon|Japan October 12, 1966
runtime = 150 min
country = Japan
language = Japanese
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amg_id = 1:173350
imdb_id = 0327147

"Shiroi Kyotō" (白い巨塔; literally "The White Tower") is a Japanese television drama first made as a movie (1966) then twice as a television mini-series (1979 and 2003), and all are adaptations of a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.

Cast

*Jiro Tamiya - Goro Zaizen
*Eijiro Tono - Professor Azuma
*Takahiro Tamura - Satomi
*Eitaro Ozawa - Professor Ugai
*Eiji Funakoshi - Professor Kikukawa
*Osamu Takizawa - Professor Funao
*Kenjiro Ishiyama - Zaizen (Goro's grandfather)
*Yoshi Kato - Professor Okouchi
*Teruko Kishi - Masako
*Mayumi Ogawa - Keiko
*Shiho Fujimura - Saeko
*Toshio Takahara - Tsukuda

ummary

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

ee also

* White Tower (TV series), a 2007 South Korean television drama based on the same novel