Inochi no Teishaba

[Machine Translation] Four doctors weave a human medical tale that will move you to tears. Based on a novel of the same title published in 2020 by Kyoko Minami, a practicing physician. Director Izuru Narushima ("Cicada on the Eighth Day") adapted the much-talked-about novel into a film, which delves deeply into themes such as the reality of the medical field and euthanasia, which only a doctor can depict. --The story is about a doctor, Sakiwako Shiraishi (Sayuri Yoshinaga), who works at an emergency medical center in Tokyo, but after taking responsibility for an incident, she resigns and returns to her hometown of Kanazawa. She lives with her father (Min Tanaka), whom she has not seen for a long time, and makes a fresh start as a home doctor at the "Mahoroba Clinic. The director, Toru Senkawa (Toshiyuki Nishida), and a visiting nurse, Mayo Hoshino (Suzu Hirose), focus on treating only five patients who live in the neighborhood, respecting their way of life. Then Seiji Noro (Momori Matsuzaka), a medical school graduate who followed Sakiwako from Tokyo, joins the "Mahoroba" team. Noro is wondering whether to become a doctor, and Mayo is also suffering from a trauma. As Sakiwako meets patients who have chosen home medical care for various reasons and are difficult to treat, she begins to think together with the patients and their families about how to live their lives in their own way as a member of "Mahoroba".

Special Feature / Bonus Track: teaser(s), trailers, making-of, greeting footage

4人の医師たちが紡ぐ、感涙のヒューマン医療巨編、誕生。原作は現役医師・南杏子が2020年に発表した同名小説。医師だからこそ描写できる医療現場の臨場感、安楽死などのといったテーマに深く切り込み、話題となった小説を『八日目の蝉』の成島出監督が映画化。――東京の救命救急センターで働いていた医師・白石咲和子(吉永小百合)は、ある事件の責任をとって退職し、実家の金沢に帰郷。久々に再会した父(田中泯)と暮らし、「まほろば診療所」で在宅医として再出発をする。院長の仙川徹(西田敏行)と、訪問看護師の星野麻世(広瀬すず)は、近隣に住むたった5名の患者を中心に、患者の生き方を尊重する治療を行っており、これまで「命を救う」現場で戦ってきた咲和子は考え方の違いに困惑する。そこへ東京から咲和子を追いかけてきた医大卒業生の野呂聖二(松坂桃李)も加わり「まほろば」のメンバーに。野呂は医師になるか悩んでおり、そして麻世もまた、あるトラウマに苦しんでいた。様々な事情から在宅医療を選択し、治療が困難な患者たちと出会っていく中で、咲和子は「まほろば」の一員として、その人らしい生き方を、患者やその家族とともに考えるようになってゆく。

映像特典: 特報/予告集、「まほろば診療所」メイキング、舞台挨拶映像集