"Team Batista" series returns for 4th installment next winter

The 4th installment in the Team Batista series will be back next winter as the new drama "Raden Meikyuu" will be shown via FujiTV from January 2014 at 10pm on Tuesdays. Ito Atsushi and Nakamura Toru will reunite as the Taguchi & Shiratori combi in the final sequel of this drama series where they will focus on medical treatment of those terminally ill.

To date, the two of them have appeared in 3 drama serials and 1 drama SP so far under the "Team Batista" series where Ito plays the role of Taguchi Kohei, a psychotherapist, while Nakamura plays Shiratori, a weirdo official from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. In this installment, Taguchi gets sent to a hospital in the suburbs where he works with Shiratori to investigate problems involving the terminal care of dying patients. This time, their "enemy" will be Sakuramiya Iwao, the director of the hospital played by Yanagiba Toshiro. What's unique this time is that Shiratori who is also a licensed doctor, will be wearing a doctor's robe for the first time in the drama since the first installment six years ago.

Filming for the drama has already begun.

Source: Sanspo