The Lone Surgical Knife

This film (drama)Also known as孤高のメス，is aJapanProducerwomen sex，At2010Released in year 。The dialogue language isJapanese，Current Douban rating8.0(For reference only)。

Located in the citizen hospital of Kobayashi City, Shiga Prefecture, the local medical technology is relatively underdeveloped. Although a team from Keio University Medical School is stationed there, these doctors prioritize their futures over their patients, shirking responsibility for slightly risky surgeries, which results in missed opportunities for many patients to be cured. In the first year of the Heisei era (1989), surgical physician Taisuke Toma (played by Masakazu Tamura), who returned to Japan after studying in Pittsburgh, is invited to take charge of the second surgical department at the citizen hospital. Toma places the lives of patients as his top priority and does his utmost in every surgery. His noble medical ethics win the admiration of patients and his team, but also breed jealousy in the arrogant Keio Medical School. One day, Toma challenges a liver transplant surgery from brain-dead patients, which was not yet permitted by Japanese law at the time, and all conflicts come to a head... This film is adapted from Toshihiko Okubo's novel "The Lone Surgical Knife – Surgeon Taisuke Toma" and has won four awards at the 34th Japanese Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor (Masakazu Tamura).