Shiroi Kyotō

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Shiroi Kyoto (film)
Directed by	Satsuo Yamamoto
Produced by	Masaichi Nagata
Written by	Shinobu Hashimoto Toyoko Yamasaki (novel)
Starring	Jiro Tamiya Eijiro Tono Takahiro Tamura
Music by	Sei Ikeno
Cinematography	Nobuo Munekawa
Distributed by	Daiei Motion Picture Co. Ltd.
Release date(s)	October 12, 1966
Running time	150 min
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
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Shiroi Kyotō (白い巨塔; literally "The White Tower") is a Japanese television drama first made as a movie (1966) then twice as a television mini-series (1979 and 2003), and all are adaptations of a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.

[edit] Cast

Jiro Tamiya - Goro Zaizen
Eijiro Tono - Professor Azuma
Takahiro Tamura - Satomi
Eitaro Ozawa - Professor Ugai
Eiji Funakoshi - Professor Kikukawa
Osamu Takizawa - Professor Funao
Kenjiro Ishiyama - Zaizen (Goro's grandfather)
Yoshi Kato - Professor Okouchi
Teruko Kishi - Masako
Mayumi Ogawa - Keiko
Shiho Fujimura - Saeko
Toshio Takahara - Tsukuda

[edit] Summary

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.