Iryu-Medical-Manga-Gets-3rd-Live-Action-TV-Season
August 16th 2010 11:01
Iryu Medical Manga Gets 3rd Live-Action TV Season - Anime News
Japan's Fuji TV will launch a third season of its popular live-action television adaptation of Akira Nagai and Taro Nogizaka's Iryu - Team Medical Dragon manga this October. The Iryu - Team Medical Dragon 3 television season will star 34-year-old Kenji Sakaguchi (Ikebukuro West Gate Park) as Ryutaro Asada, a genius surgeon regarded as a renegade in the eyes of other Japanese doctors because of his methods. 24-year-old Teppei Koike (Gokusen, Love*Com the Movie) and 38-year-old Izumi Inamori will also return from the first two seasons. 49-year-old Kenichi Endo (Crows Zero, Azumi) and 20-year-old Mitsuki Tanimura (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars) will join the cast as a rival doctor and a medical intern, respectively.
Part 1 aired in 2006 and it averaged 14.8% in ratings with a peak of 17.2%. Part 2 aired in 2007, and it averaged 17.2% and reached as high as 21.0%. Iryu - Team Medical Dragon 3 will be airing in the same Thursday 10:00 p.m. timeslot as its predecessors did.
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