Another Tsumabuki’s dorama. Got a little curious about this one, cause it got a lot of praise from a dorama’s fan website. I gave it a go, and found myself a bit bored; the dorama was not as addictive as I thought. Didn’t know what went wrong, the casts were not so bad—Tsumabuki even, IMHO, showed an all-in heartfelt performances, the stories were different almost per episode, showing different conflicts possible in medical cases.
Eijiro Saito (Tsumabuki) was a fresh graduate from Eidai University, a prestigious institution for medical study. He then joined in the university’s hospital as an intern. Unlike Hollywood's doctors television drama, Saito was far from the perfect, genius-know-how, and new cool doctor image. He made mistakes, almost every time—in this case, every episode—and cried a lot because his heart often didn’t correspond with those of his senior doctors’. There was a lot of pressure that made him rethink his decision on becoming a doctor.
At first, I was a bit annoyed by Saito’s weak character; it seemed that he always came to tears every time there was an obstacle. On one of the early episodes, Saito ran and hide himself in document’s room, his hand shaking wildly, from a badly injured traffic accident patient, living him only with the nurses! But I guess, this made the story felt so real; imagine yourself as a new intern who has to conduct a heavy operation by your self without senior doctor’s supervision… It really can break someone up.
And then, when Saito’s mother visited her son, she said something that stuck even until now in my mind: “Don’t worry, Eijiro, your tears were actually your strength… ever since you were a child. Now will not be any different.” And this saying was proven true, Saito always bounce right back off—and this is so typical of a Japanese dorama, which I like: the main character met obstacles, failed, but then instead of giving up, he/she struggled very very hard to get what he/she wanted. Bravo for Tsumabuki who played this character well!
Tsumabuki was not the only one who dominated the screen; I like Kyoka Suzuki’s character, Nurse Akagi Kaori, a lot. She’s so beautiful and fit right in into this mysterious, sophisticated, sexy nurse character—please note that when I say “sexy”, I didn’t mean it as rated R’s sexy, since maybe many of us have come to associate the nurse profession with other-not so mentionable-things here ;-p. Anyway, Nurse Kaori was the one who helped Saito a lot in his search of determination; loved the chemistry between the young intern and this older woman, too bad there were no romantic scenes, other than subtle ones. Hmmm... could this be the reason why I got bored? Hehehe.
Talking about side stories, Dekune (Kato Koji) was Saito’s fellow intern, who supposedly dwelled with his own problems: being the second son of a doctor’s family, his dad even owned a hospital, he felt pressured to become a doctor. I said “supposedly” because although his face and name were all over the opening and ending credits, he didn’t get many scenes; kind of puzzled me why he got such a big portion in the first place.
The theme song was from my dearest favorite J-Pop singer: Ken Hirai. The first lines in this song were so perfect for this dorama, and perhaps the lives of some of us? ;-p
“Jibun wo tsuyoku misetari , jibun wo umaku misetari.
Doshite bokura wa konna ni ikigurushii ikikata (wo) erabuno?”
= Showing our own self we’re strong, showing our own self we’re superb.
Why do we choose this hard-to-live way of living?
Casts: Tsumabuki Satoshi, Suzuki Kyoka, Kato Koji, Matsuo Masatoshi, Sugimoto Tetta, Ogata Ken, Miura Tomokazu Title: Blackjack ni Yoroshiku Also known as: Hello Black Jack / Say Hello to Blackjack Genre: Melodrama Episodes: 11 Broadcast Network: TBS Broadcast period: 2003-Apr-11 to 2003-Jun-20 Theme Song: LIFE is... ~another story~ by Hirai Ken Language: Japanese
Source: http://wiki.d-addicts.com
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