Team Batista 2: General Rouge no Gaisen

Premise

General Rouge no Gaisen is a 12-episode Japanese medical drama television series broadcast in 2010, a sequel to the series Team Batista no Eikō. Atsushi Itō and Tōru Nakamura reprised their lead roles.

The initial season of "Team Batista" aired on Fuji TV in late 2008 and pulled in strong ratings, leading to a follow-up last October in the special episode "Nightingale no Chinmoku." The dramas were based on the first two novels in a best-selling medical mystery series by writer Takeru Kaido. The new season is based on the third novel, General Rouge no Gaisen. Both "Team Batista no Eiko" and "General Rouge no Gaisen" have also been adapted as a feature films, starring Yuko Takeuchi and Hiroshi Abe. Fuji TV will broadcast "Team Batista 2: General Rouge no Gaisen" on Tuesdays at 10:00pm, beginning on April 6. New cast members this time include Hidetoshi Nishijima, Ai Kato and Miho Shiraishi.

Cast and characters

Leading cast

• Toru Nakamura as Keisuke Shiratori
• Hidetoshi Nishijima as Koichi Hayami
• Atsushi Ito as Kohei Taguchi
• Ai Kato as Haruka Izumi
• Yūko Natori as Makoto Fujiwara
• Shigeyuki Totsugi as Takashi Hasegawa
• Keisuke Horibe as Eiji Sasaki
• Reina Asami as Yayoi Kuriyama

Supporting cast

• Osamu Adachi as Yasutomo Nagayama
• Tori Matsuzaka as Hideki Takizawa
• Takayuki Kinoshita as Shinji Sato
• Go Riju as Daisuke Mifune
• Taro Takeuchi as Kasuhiko Asano
• Ryūzō Hayashi as Gonta Takashina
• Miho Shiraishi as Miwa Hanafusa

Episodes

This series spans 1 season with 1 episode.

Production

Release

References

1. The Movie Database (TMDB)
2. EpisodeTime Show Page