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Ranzan: The Wild Physician

1995 · 1 season

A sincere, slow-moving period drama about a principled doctor fighting suffering, offering quiet warmth and moral resolve.

Genres
Drama
Starring
Teruhiko Saigō, Azusa Watanabe, Akiko Kana
Overview
A doctor whose mission is to save lives stands up for the weak in the midst of suffering and cuts down the evil that is the disease of the human world. Teruhiko Saigo plays the main character Arashiyama, who was born into the family of the Shogun's official doctor, but joined the Hayashi family as a son-in-law to save more people, and Azusa Watanabe plays his wife Misa, who is also a doctor.

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Genres
Drama
Starring
Teruhiko Saigō, Azusa Watanabe, Akiko Kana
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Tone
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • justice
  • family
  • healing
  • morality
  • class
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour2
Realism6
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Starring
Teruhiko Saigō, Azusa Watanabe, Akiko Kana, Isamu Nagato, Yumiko Nogawa, Etsuo Yokobori, Shun Hirooka
Length
1 seasons, 12 episodes, 54 min each
Network
TV Tokyo
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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