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Yoshizaki Kaoruko, who had been a clinician at a university hospital, takes up a post at a medical examiner’s office after she is told by her professor to try to get experience. However, everyone from the Supervising Dr. Akita Shinya, Director Yanagida Shuhei, and Assistant Yamashita Mieko are all individualistic characters. This does not bode well for the future. Meanwhile, Akita and Kaoruko are put in charge of the dead body of a popular model who fell to her death. The police consider it to be a suicide, but Akita is drawn to a subtle point...

NHK's Taiga Drama for the year 2000 is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of three generations of the Tokugawa dynasty--from its founder Ieyasu to Iemitsu, the third Shogun who solidified the Tokugawa power base. The drama and excitement of one of Japan's most glorious eras unfolds in epic scale each week with an all-star cast that includes Tsugawa Masahiko, Nishida Toshiyuki, Iwashita Shima, Emori Toru, Tamura Ryo, Kurosawa Toshio and Kusabue Mitsuko.