TV Movie: Red Cross: Onna Tachi no Akagami
Romaji: Red Cross: Onna Tachi no Akagami
Japanese: レッドクロス～女たちの赤紙～
Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa
Writer:
Network: TBS
Episodes: 2
Release Date: August 1-2, 2015
Runtime: 21:00-23:18 (ep.1) / 21:00-23:13 (ep2)
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
Kiyo (Nanako Matsushima) is a female school student in Saga Prefecture, Japan. She admires nurses and wants to be helpful to her nation. Kiyo decides to become a war nurse. She undergoes strict training and finally graduates from nursing school. Kiyo then gets her draft notice and leaves for Manchuria, China.
Everyday, she takes care of injured soldiers. A Japanese immigrant in Manchuria, Wataru (Hidetoshi Nishijima), brings two injured people to her. One person is Hikaru (Hidekazu Akai) and the other injured person is a native Chinese person named Son (Yuta Kashikura). Kiyo persuades Army Surgeon Hideyo (Tsurube Shofukutei) to treat Son and he does so in secret. Lieutenant Colonel Kisuke (Satoshi Hashimoto) soon discovers about the treatment.
Cast
Nanako Matsushima as Kiyo Amano
Hidetoshi Nishijima as Wataru Nakagawa
Rin Takanashi as Haru Mabuchi
Yuki Shibamoto as Tami Muramoto
Kunihiro Suda as Satoru Okano
Asuka Kudo as Hiroto Nakagawa
Rion Ichimura as Daichi Nakagawa
Hiroko Nakajima as Shizu Takagi
Yoko Asaji as Kinue Amano
Satoshi Hashimoto as Kisuke Kurahashi
Hidekazu Akai as Hikaru Nakagawa
Yu Yoshizawa as Major Mizoguchi
Tsurube Shofukutei as Hideyo Otake
Tsutomu Yamazaki as Daisuke Amano
Makiko Watanabe as Kaori Nakagawa