Trailer - A Lone Scalpel (Kokō no Mes)

Earlier this week, an 85-second trailer was added to the official website for Izuru Narushima’s A Lone Scalpel, an upcoming film based on a medical-themed novel written by real-life doctor Toshihiko Oogane. Oogane’s stories were first told through the 1989 manga “Mesu yo Kagayake!!” which was serialized in Business Jump for four years. His own novelization would not be released until 2005. In 2007, the novel was drastically revised and re-released as six volumes focusing on a wide array of the moral conundrums faced by doctors on a daily basis.

The film is set in 1989 and revolves around a gifted surgeon Named Toma Tetsuhiko (Shinichi Tsutsumi) who’s hired by a city hospital. While there, he’s forced to take a stand against the rampant corruption in the medical field as well as the callous decisions of uncaring doctors. Meanwhile, he makes the controversial decision to end the life of a brain-dead patient in order to procure a new liver for the town’s mayor as his resentful colleagues conspire against him.

Toei will be releasing “A Lone Scalpel” in Japan on June 5, 2010.

Thanks to logboy for the reminder

Editor’s note: dead link removed (http://www.kokouno-mes.com/)