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(The Guy Kawaguchi / Translation) The WOWOW TV series "Hands of The Gods" (which starts on June 23, every Sunday at 10:00 pm, all 5 episodes, episode 1 is free to air) starring actor Kirihei Shiina) announced the main cast.
The drama is based on the novel of the same name by Hisakabe. The theme of euthanasia is used in the novel, and the question of whether man can control human life and death is the question that can never be answered. Shiina plays a surgeon, the protagonist Yasuo Shirakawa. Tetsuta Sugimoto plays Shirakawa's colleague and surgeon Keisuke Yamana, Kitamura Yukiya plays Shinmi Shinichi, president of JAMO, a group that plans medical reform in Japan, and Ashina plays vice president Kaori Shibagi. Masatoko Kondo plays Kazukatsu Sadohara, the former Prime Minister.
In the play, Shirakawa makes a painful choice and decides to euthanize 21-year-old terminal cancer patient Korin Kotaro (Played by Nori Nobuyuki Hayama). However, the aunt Who raised Shotaro, Jingko Furubayashi (Makoto Sakai), denounces Shirakawa. In addition, Suzuki Satyu starred as Shotaro's mother, journalist Koyashi Koyo. Maori Hoshino starred as Shirakawa's former colleague, nurse Yukie Honmura.
Recently, the show also released a poster visual picture that reflects the inner thoughts of the characters. From the poster, you can see Shirakawa, who has a dispute with the euthanasia of young patients with advanced cancer, and every character who has a completely different inner thought around the right and wrong of euthanasia.
The story takes shirakawa's defendant as an opportunity, and there is a big uproar in the medical community, politics, media, and civic groups around the establishment of the euthanasia act.