Profile

• TV Show: Team Batista 2: General Rouge no Gaisen
• Romaji: Team Batista 2: General Rouge no Gaisen
• Japanese: チーム・バチスタ２: ジェネラル・ルージュの凱旋
• Director:
• Writer: Takeru Kaido (novel)
• Network: Fuji TV / KTV
• Episodes:
• Release Date: April 6, 2010 --
• Runtime: Tuesday 22:00
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

Kohei Taguchi (Atsushi Ito), hospital therapist at Tojo University Hospital & eccentric Health Ministry offical Keisuke Shiratori (Toru Nakamura), face off against genius emergency doctor Koichi Hayami (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and investigate a medical mystery.

Notes

1. Based on the medical novel "General Rouge no Gaisen" by Kaido Takeru - the third novel in Kaido Takeru's best-selling medical mystery series.
2. Related titles (Feature Films):
   1. The Glorious Team Batista | Chiimu Bachisuta no Eikou (2008)
   2. The Triumphant Return of General Rouge | General Rouge no Gaisen (2009)
3. Related titles (Television):
   1. Glory of Team Batista | Chimu bachisuta no eiko (Fuji TV / 2008)
   2. Glory of Team Batista SP - Aratana Meikyuu e no Shoutai | Team Batista SP : Aratana Meikyuu e no Shoutai (Fuji TV / 2009)
   3. Glory of Team Batista SP - Silence of the Nightingale | Team Batista SP ~Nightingale no Chinmoku~ (Fuji TV / 2009)
   4. Team Batista 2: General Rouge no Gaisen (Fuji TV / 2010)

Characters
Ito Atsushi as Taguchi Kohei
A consultant at Tojo University Hospital who listens to complaints of general malaise. Taguchi has no desire to rise in the world and takes things at his own pace. He is good at drawing out the worries and true feelings of his patients by listening to their stories. At the orders of the hospital director, he provides emotional care for patients at Hayami Koichi’s emergency centre.

Nakamura Toru as Shiratori Keisuke
A technical official attached to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s Secretariat. He is insensitive and casually says things that people shun but that draws out people’s true feelings and exposes their psyche.

Kato Ai as Izumi Haruka
An ER doctor at Tojo University Hospital’s emergency centre. She is spirited, strong willed, and is a person who has great faith in herself that she would be the most capable doctor apart from Hayami Koichi. She likes Hayami.

Kinoshita Takayuki as Shinichi
The deputy head of Tojo University Hospital’s emergency centre. He stops the complaints brought on by Hayami Koichi’s aggressive action and supports his medical care from behind the scenes.

Totsugi Shigeyuki as Hasegawa Takashi
An ER doctor at Tojo University Hospital’s emergency centre. He specialises in neurosurgery. He never talks much, but is the type who will speak his mind if there is something he wishes to say.

Shiraishi Miho as Hanabusa Miwa
The head nurse at Tojo University Hospital’s emergency centre. She became the head nurse after working in the operating theatre. She is the serious, perfect, model student type. She supports Hayami and is in love with him.

Nishijima Hidetoshi as Hayami Koichi
The head of Tojo University Hospital’s emergency centre and a brilliant ER doctor. His nickname is ‘General Rouge’ and he has built up an ER team called ‘Team General’. He would get involved in dirty business in order to save people.

All text copyright © jdramas.wordpress.com.