Iryu: Team Medical Dragon

Apr 13, 2006 45m JP

7.1

10 votes

Drama

Seasons and episodes

Synopsis

Ryutaro Asada was the chief surgeon of Team Medical Dragon, a globally active emergency medical care team that worked in refugee camps. After his return to Japan, this amazingly talented surgeon starts work at a university hospital, where he uncovers one case of corruption after another and takes on a lot of powerful contenders in this heroic drama. The struggles between the hospital and the patients, the infighting among the hospital staff, and the patients who get involved in those struggles are all depicted in a realistic manner in a drama that has an overwhelming feeling of speed. Here’s a human drama depicting a thrilling battle between life and death, a totally new, outstanding form of entertainment.

Title	Iryu: Team Medical Dragon
First Air Date	Apr 13, 2006
Last Air Date	Mar 20, 2014
Episodes	43
Seasons	4
Companies	Fuji Television Network
Keywords	medical drama, rehabilitating sidelined medical personnel, developing promising medical professionals, doctors without borders alumnus, fighting "little medical emperors"