Jin - The Time Travel Doctor
2010 TBS Drama 11 Episodes
Cast : Osawa Takao, Nakatani Miki, Ayase Haruka, Koide Keisuke, Aso Yumi
The story follows a brain surgeon named, Minakata Jin, who has spent the last two years in anguish, as his fiancee lies in a vegetative state after an operation he performed. One day, he faints at the hospital and awakens to find himself transported back in time to the Edo period,during the Bakumatsu era, the period that spelled the end of the shoguns' rule over Japan.
He is soon attacked by a samurai, but he escapes with the help of a man named Kyotaro. Kyotaro suffers a serious injury to the head while trying to protect him, but Jin manages to save his life despite a lack of proper medical equipment. Because of that, Kyotaro's sister Saki begins taking an interest in Jin and becomes his assistant. Jin ends up using his 21st-century medical expertise to help the people, who are suffering from various epidemic illnesses at the time, with the help of the modern medical knowledge of his era. Meanwhile, Jin is determined to find a way back to the present time.
2010 Color Widescreen 11 Episode on 2 Discs
Japanese with Removable English and Chinese subtitles
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