Dia dokutâ (2009)
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Cast
Tsurube Shôfukutei, Eita Nagayama, Teruyuki Kagawa, Haruka Igawa, Kimiko Yo, Kaoru Yachigusa
When a village doctor disappears, his colleagues and the police uncover how little anyone knows about his past.
The story
In Kamiwada, a small mountain village of just over a thousand people, the only doctor, Osamu Ino, suddenly disappears. Veteran nurse Akemi Otake and resident doctor Keisuke Soma, who has spent two months at the village clinic learning about community medicine, are left bewildered. At the villagers’ request, police begin searching for Ino, but their investigation reveals that no one knows much about his past. The story also traces how Ino became part of village life after arriving when Kamiwada had no doctor, taking on many kinds of treatment and earning the locals’ affection with his easygoing manner and willingness to listen.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
From the village-run clinic in Kamiwada, a small mountain village with a population of just over a thousand, the village’s only doctor, Osamu Ino (Tsurube Shofukutei), disappears. Akemi Otake (Yukimi Yori), a veteran nurse who has worked alongside Ino for several years, and Keisuke Soma (Eita), a resident doctor who had been working at the Kamiwada Village Clinic for two months to learn about community medicine firsthand, are left bewildered by Ino’s sudden disappearance. Eventually, police arrive at the village’s request and begin searching for him, but as their investigation continues, it comes to light that nobody knew anything about Ino’s past. Once, Kamiwada had no doctor at all. When Ino came to the village, he took charge of all kinds of medical treatment. His easygoing nature, and the fact that he would also listen to the elderly villagers, soon endeared him to the locals. One day, Ino was asked to examine Kazuko Torikai (Kaoru Yachigusa), a widow living alone. As Ino treated her, Kazuko gradually opened up to him. At one point, she asked him to “lie to my family.” But when Ino agreed to her request, another “lie”—one he had been hiding—began to come to light as well.
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