The mega-corporate Daedalus Group is under attack by a small group of activists known as the Ghost of Icarus. While taking care of some of the victims of the bombing, Black Jack encounters Dr. Kiriko, also known as Death Incarnate, who just like him, asks his patients huge sums of money but instead of saving them, he offers them a painless death. When the activist group requests both doctors’ collaboration, Black Jack finds himself caught in a spiral of life, death and treason while trying to save his patients' lives and avoid the breaking of a biological war that could destroy humanity.
Acting
Akio Otsuka's gravelly gravitas defines antihero anime.
Direction
Tezuka's son honors Osamu's legacy with surgical precision.
Writing
Philosophical debates hit harder than any explosion.
Director
Makoto Tezuka
Akio Otsuka
Black Jack (voice)
Yuko Mizutani
Pinoko (voice)
Makoto Ishii
Largo (voice)
Kenji Utsumi
Inspector Tomobiki (voice)
Aya Hirayama
Midori (voice)
Yuma Ishigaki
Rock (voice)
Takeshi Kaga
Kiriko (voice)
Akiko Kawase
Kumiko Honma (voice)
Kosei Tomita
Master (voice)
Hisao Egawa
Doubling (voice)
Akira Sasanuma
Pick (voice)
Mako Hyodo
Black Jack's mother (voice)
Asako Dodo
Child Black Jack (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Makoto Tezuka directed this as tribute to his father Osamu, creator of the original Black Jack manga in 1973.
Black Jack remains the unlicensed rogue surgeon archetype that inspired House MD and countless antihero doctors.
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