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Iryu: Team Medical Dragon (2006)
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Iryu: Team Medical Dragon (2006)
Original name: 医龍-Team Medical Dragon-
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, medical drama
Plot: doctor, surgery, medicine, medical profession, physician, medical, life is a bitch, social problems, medical malpractice, surgeon, latex gloves, surgical gown, surgical mask, medical mask, dental mask
Place: japan
Keyword: doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, medical drama and disturbing films and TV series with plots about doctor, medicine, medical, physician, workplace situations, workplace and doctors and patients mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Iryu: Team Medical Dragon: DOCTORS: The Ultimate Surgeon (2011), Godhand Teru (2009), A Life (2017), The Surgeon (2005), Top Knife (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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DOCTORS: The Ultimate Surgeon (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Donoue General Hospital runs into a budget deficit, even though the doctors drive expensive imported cars and live an outlandish lifestyle. Office manager Momoi finds surgeon Kosuke Sagara through a medical website. Kosuke Sagara arrives at the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, medical drama
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Place: japan
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Godhand Teru (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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A Life (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
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Place: japan
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The Surgeon (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Surgeon was an Australian primetime television Medical drama. It screened at 9:30pm on Thursdays on Network Ten and in Ireland early morning on RTÉ One. The show was based at a fictional hospital named Sydney General Hospital. The first season ...
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Top Knife (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Yoko Miyama works as a doctor at Touto Hospital. She specializes in brain aneurysms in the neurosurgery department. Yoko Miyama becomes involved with her colleagues, including Kengo Kuroiwa, Sachiko Kozukue, and Takuma Nishigoori. Meanwhile, she ...
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Good Doctor (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Minato Shindo has savant syndrome. His memory is amazing, but he has difficulty communicating with other people. When Minato was little, he dreamed of becoming a doctor. He met Doctor Akira Shiga and he wanted to become a pediatric surgeon. Akira ...
Style: medical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Great White Tower (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
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TV show
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Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, medical drama
Plot: medical, female doctor, workplace, medicine, countryside, physician, surgeon, female protagonist, doctor, workplace situations, rural area
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Jozi-H (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Jozi-H is a one-hour hospital drama series set in Johannesburg, South Africa, set in the Johannesburg General Hospital. It is a Canada-South Africa co-production. It first aired in Canada on CBC Television on 13 October 2006, and in South Africa on ...
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Country: Japan
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