A Life: A Love

A Life: A Love

TV-PG 2017 · 1 season · 10 eps · ★ 7.0 · Drama

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When Okita Kazuaki was starting out as a doctor, he was forced to resign from the hospital. He left his girlfriend Danjo Mifuyu behind and went to the US alone. 10 years go by and he comes back as a surgeon with outstanding skills to save his former teacher from illness. His teacher is none other than his ex-girlfriend’s father. In the time that Okita was away, Mifuyu had married his own good friend Masao, who is now the deputy director and the heir of the hospital. To make matters worse, this friend was the one who plotted to drive him out form the hospital 10 years ago. Okita has to face all sorts of ordeals to save his teacher. But he never gives up amid the swirl of love, desire, friendship, jealousy and pride. Okita may be awkward but deals with patients with all his heart. His way of life gets the people working at the hospital to start asking themselves what real healthcare is.

Created by Yuichiro Hirakawa, Hisashi Kimura

Network: TBS

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Takuya Kimura Okita Kazuaki
Yuko Takeuchi Danjo Mifuyu
Kenichi Matsuyama Igawa Sota
Fumino Kimura Shibata Yuki
Nanao Sakakibara Minori
Akira Emoto Danjo Toranosuke
Min Tanaka Okita Isshin
Takashi Kobayashi Sanada Takayuki
Mitsuhiro Oikawa Hamura Keigo
Tadanobu Asano Danjo Masao
Takenoya Saki Danjo Rina

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