"Shiroi Kyoto (The White Tower)" (21 episodes), which was broadcast on Fuji TV over two seasons from October 2003 to March 2004 and starred actor Toshiaki Karasawa, will begin airing on the network's rebroadcast slot "Happy Hour" (Kanto local, weekdays 1:50pm to 3:45pm) on November 12th.
"Shiroi Kyoto" is a re-drama adaptation of Yamazaki Toyoko's novel of the same name (published by Shincho Bunko) published in the 1960s, which depicts the unknown reality of the medical world and the dignity of human life, and has been remade into a serial drama by Fuji TV for the first time in 25 years since 1978. While retaining the overwhelming energy of the original, the setting has been changed to the 2000s, and while pursuing realism through thorough research, the drama has delved deeply into the human condition, resulting in a full-fledged drama with dense content.
The story compares the National University Medical School, a place swirling with greed and intrigue, to a "white tower," and depicts the fates of Goro Zaizen (Karasawa), a surgeon with exceptional skills and an arrogant personality, and Shuji Satomi (Eguchi Yosuke), an internist with a contrasting personality, as well as the human drama of the people surrounding them. Assistant Professor Zaizen (Karasawa), who is aiming to become the next professor, begins to be disliked by Professor Azuma (Ishizaka Koji) due to his disrespectful behavior. Feeling a sense of crisis, Zaizen declines Assistant Professor Satomi's request for cooperation when he discovers a diagnostic error made by Dean Ukai (Ibu Masato)... and so the story unfolds.
In addition to Karasawa and Eguchi, the cast also includes Hitomi Kuroki, Akiko Yada, Maki Mizuno, Atsuko Ikeuchi, Takaya Kamikawa, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Hideaki Ito, Ishizaka, and Toshiyuki Nishida. The script was written by Yumiko Inoue, and the directors were Hiroshi Nishitani, Keita Kono, and Masanori Murakami. The music was composed by Takashi Kako, and the theme song was "Amazing Grace" by Haley.
