Series synopsis
TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room, also known as TOKYO MER 〜走る緊急救命室〜 is a Japanese drama television series that premiered on TBS on July 4, 2021. It ended on September 12, 2021. It stars Ryohei Suzuki, Kento Kaku, Ayami Nakajo and Jun Kaname.
TOKYO MER is formed by order from the Governor of Tokyo. The name of the group stands for TOKYO Mobile Emergency Room. The members are emergency care professionals and they are to go to sites of dangerous accidents and disasters by ER car. Their ER car is a large vehicle equipped with the latest medical devices and an operating area. There, TOKYO MER saves lives of the injured.
Kōta Kitami is a doctor for TOKYO MER and its leader. He holds a strong conviction that, regardless of the dangers, he ...
Premise
TOKYO MER is formed by order from the Governor of Tokyo. The name of the group stands for TOKYO Mobile Emergency Room. The members are emergency care professionals and they are to go to sites of dangerous accidents and disasters by ER car. Their ER car is a large vehicle equipped with the latest medical devices and an operating area. There, TOKYO MER saves lives of the injured.
Kōta Kitami is a doctor for TOKYO MER and its leader. He holds a strong conviction that, regardless of the dangers, he will go to accident sites to save lives.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Ryohei Suzuki as Kota Kitami
- Kento Kaku as Nao Otowa
- Ayami Nakajo as Hina Tsurumaki
- Jun Kaname as Mikio Senjyu
- Nanao as Natsume Kuramae
- Shingo Tsurumi as Shusei Kugayama
- Satoshi Hashimoto as Suguru Komaba
- Makiko Watanabe as Mariko Shirokane
Supporting cast
- Riisa Naka as Chiaki Takanawa
- Yuriko Ishida as Azusa Akatsuka
- Shinya Kote as Jiro Fuyuki
- Hayato Sano as Motoichi Tokumaru
- Shiori Sato as Suzuka Kitami
- Phương Chi as Hoang Lan Minh
- Kenta Izuka
- Mio Kudo as Kozue Kiyokawa
Guest cast
- Eita Okuno
- Mari Iriki
- Aoba Kawai as Ayano Tachibana
- Tarō Suwa
- Jundai Yamada
- Shieri Ohata
- Yu Takahashi as Nozomi Koyama
- Masaki Miura
- Haruka Uchimura
- Mio Tachibana
- Eriko Moriwaki
- Tanaka Takahiro as [Police officer]
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 12 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 1 | April 16, 2023 | April 16, 2023 |
| Season 1 | 11 | July 4, 2021 | September 12, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Sumida River Mission Half a year has passed since the official approval of TOKYO MER. Kitami is racking his brains over the issue of a second doctor to replace Otowa, who has left the team in order to expand MER to ordinance-designated cities nationwide. Some members of the team want Hina to be promoted, but Otowa asserts that Hina should pursue her path of cardiovascular surgery. She felt the pressure that Hina could take Otowa’s place, and she was troubled. |
April 16, 2023 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A life that cannot be saved by waiting Tokyo MER was launched to save the lives of patients by rushing to the scene of accidents, disasters, and incidents. There are 7 members of the emergency team: Chief Doctor Kitami, Resident Tsurumaki Hina, Nurse Kuramae Natsume, Vietnamese Nurse Hoang Lan Minh, Anesthesiologist Fuyuki Jiro, civil engineer Tokumaru Motoichi, and the bureaucrat and doctor Otowa Nao. All of them are life-saving medical specialists. During the inauguration ceremony, the team have to rush to the of a serious bus accident. There were many patients waiting and the team takes on the mission of operating on multiple patients at the scene of an extremely dangerous accident. Kitami's life-saving act, transcending the common sense of doctors, is regarded as a problem by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Tokyo MER, which faces the crisis of dissolution soon after inauguration is faced with a difficult decision when a factory explosion occurs. |
July 4, 2021 |
| 2 |
The "trial of life" for a young doctor Tokyo MER is dispatched to a construction site where a steel frame has fallen. Hina opposes Chief Kitami who puts himself in danger operating on-site. A mistake by Hina puts a patient at risk resulting in her confidence falling. Ordered to dispatch to an explosion accident at the Summer festival, Hina is faced with a large number of critical patients and the heavy responsibility of protecting their lives as a doctor. Can Hina, entrusted with a serious operation by Kitami, overcome the trial of life? |
July 11, 2021 |
| 3 |
Barricade case! Save the hostage girl! An incident occurs in which a thug holds a seriously ill girl hostage. A bullet flies into the downtown area. Tokyo MER's Kitami Kota rushes to the scene, claiming that without medicine, the girl's life is at stake. He confronts the police who only care about honor. To save the life of a girl whose seizures put her life at stake, Nurse Kuramae Natsume volunteers to replace her. Natsume, a single mother with a daughter, has a strong desire to save the girl. However, in the meantime, the criminal shoots at Natsume... |
July 18, 2021 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | TBS |
|---|---|
| First aired | July 4, 2021 |
| Last aired | September 12, 2021 |
| Runtime | 54 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Sunday at 21:00:00 |