Season 1 • Episode 11
LatestDMAT, the acronym for the “Disaster Medical Assistance Team”, was first established in 2004. For the past 10 years, the team has been providing on-site emergency assistance at disaster-hit areas. Yakumo Hibiki was an surgeon at the Arisukawa General Hospital’s Emergency Unit, but due to a mistake involving his sister Haruko, he has since been transferred to the internal medicine unit. One day, the hospital Director, Dr. Isesaki Katsuichi, requests for Hibiki to move to DMAT. His childhood friend, Nurse Yoshioka Rin, encourages him to take up the role, but upon joining the team, Hibiki finds his new colleagues aloof and a little eccentric. His first assignment is to a pile-up accident in a road tunnel, and he finds himself working against time to provide medical treatment to those who require immediate attention.
Acting
Tadayoshi Okura's tightly wound surgeon barely holding it together.
Direction
Tunnel sequences that make you check your own breathing.
Practical Effects
Disaster medicine that actually looks like disaster medicine.
Creator
Hiroshi Takano
Tadayoshi Okura
Dr. DMAT
Ai Kato
Rin Yoshioka
Miori Takimoto
Haruko Yakumo
Yumi Aso
Kumiko Hasegawa
Jiro Sato
Tatsuya Kozone
Satoru Matsuo
Takichiro Hanada
Saori Takizawa
Sachiko Mizuno
Yuya Takaki
Kenji Komatsu
Ken Ishiguro
Shusaku Sakuraba
Jun Kunimura
Matsuichi Isezaki
Mikako Ichikawa
Kumi Isesaki
Tonpei Hidari
Raizou Yakumo
Takayuki Suzuki
Kaneko
Masanobu Sakata
Satoru Hayakawa
Rin Asuka
Miki Aizawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DMAT teams are real Japanese government units established after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, making this essentially a workplace drama about actual civil servants.
Director Hiroshi Takano reportedly insisted on filming in real confined spaces rather than sets, which explains why everyone looks genuinely miserable in the tunnel episodes.
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