Title: Dr.倫太郎 Dr. Rintaro
English Title: Dr. Rintaro
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Year: 2015
Episode: 10
Cast:
- 堺雅人 Sakai Masaki
- 蒼井優 Aoi Yu
- 吉瀬美智子 Kichise Michiko
- 内田有紀 Uchida Yuki
- 高梨臨 Takanashi Rin
- 高橋一生 Takahashi Issei
- 真飛 聖 Matobu Sei
- 中西美帆 Nakanishi Miho
- 余貴美子 Yo Kimiko
- 遠藤憲一 Endo Kenichi
- 酒井若菜 Sakai Wakana
- 長塚圭史 Nagatsuka Keishi
- 松重豊 Matsushige Yutaka
- 石橋蓮司 Ishibashi Renji
- 高畑淳子 Takahata Atsuko
- 小日向文世 Kohinata Fumiyo
SYNOPSIS
Hino Rintaro is an excellent psychiatrist who has good intuition and great empathy for his patients. He works at a renowned university hospital, and he often appears as a guest consultant on television shows.
Although his superiors are offering him a professorship position, Rintaro would rather remain an ordinary psychiatrist because he wants to spend most of his time treating patients.
While out on a meal with the president of the hospital, Rintaro meets a geisha who goes by the name Yumeno. He later runs into Yumeno, who's real name is Aizawa Akira, and Rintaro is confused that she doesn't seem to recognize him. He is also troubled at how different her demeanor is when she's not working, as if she's an entirely different person.
REVIEW
Dr. Rintaro is an interesting drama about psychiatry and psychiatrists. Psychiatry is a medical field concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental health conditions. Psychiatrists are medically qualified doctors who specialize in psychiatry, and they can prescribe medication and recommend treatments.
When he was younger, Hino Rintaro's mother had depression but he wasn't aware of it until it was too late for him to do anything because she had committed suicide. Rintaro decided he would dedicate his life to helping people with mental health issues.
Rintaro is a psychiatrist who sometimes treats his patients in unorthodox ways, but he manages to help them get better anyway. Although I don't quite agree with his methods, I suppose he should be given enough credit for getting the work done.
I think Dr. Rintaro did a fine job in raising awareness about psychiatric issues, and how important it is to seek a professional's help in some cases. However, many patients in the drama were cured through Rintaro's treatments in a very short time, and that doesn't seem to be a very realistic outcome.
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Dr.倫太郎 Dr. Rintaro
