Preview of Summer Rescue ~ Tenkuu no Shinryoujo ~ - Summer 2012

Title: Summer Rescue ~ Tenkuu no Shinryoujo
Official website: here
Official Twitter: here
O.A. Start Date: 8 July 2012
Timeslot: Sundays 9pm
Broadcast by: TBS
Theme song: Kagayaku Tsuki no You ni by Superfly
Cast: Mukai Osamu, Ono Machiko, Koike Eiko, Miura Rieko, Yamazaki Shigenori, Ichikawa Yui, Kanda Masaki, Ozawa Ryota, Nounen Rena, Totsugi Shigeyuki, Nakata Yoshiko, Sasano Takashi, Sato Jiro, Matsushige Yutaka, Tokito Saburo

Superfly to sing the theme song for "Summer Rescue ~ Tenkuu no Shinryoujo"

Superfly will be singing "Kagayaku Tsuki no You ni" (Like the shining moon), the theme song for TBS summer drama "Summer Rescue ~ Tenkuu no Shinryoujo". This is the second time that Superfly is singing the theme song for a TBS drama since 2008's "Edison no Haha" which saw 2.5 million downloads of its theme song "Ai wo Komete Hanataba wo".

Source: Yomiuri Hochi

TBS announces cast lineup for "Summer Rescue"

TBS announced the cast lineup for its summer drama "Summer Rescue - Tenkuu no Shinryoujo" which stars Mukai Osamu. Ono Machiko will play the heroine in this drama i.e. Koyama Haruka, a nurse who lost her mother in a mountain accident at the age of five and becomes a nurse in Tokyo. However, something happens to her there and she returns to the mountain resort her father owns where she meets Hayami Keigo (Mukai Osamu).

Besides Ono, Tokito Saburo will also be participating in this drama as Kuraki Yasunori, the doctor in charge of the clinic where Hayami comes to work in. This is his first role in a TBS drama since 1997's "Fuzoroi no Ringotachi IV". Koike Eiko will be playing Hirahara Akari, the veteran nurse who has worked at the mountain clinic for the past 10 years. Haruka's father Koyama Yuichi will be played by Sasano Takashi, Sato Jiro plays Takai Satoshi, a doctor who has been volunteering at the clinic since his university days. Hayami's boss Sawaguchi Tetsuo will be played by Matsushige Yutaka while Suzuki Mako, a medical student invited to work at the mountain clinc by Kuraki, will be played by Nounen Rena.

Source: Oricon

Mukai Osamu starring in TBS summer drama "Summer Rescue - Tenkuu no Shinryoujo"

Mukai Osamu will be starring in the TBS summer drama "Summer Rescue - Tenkuu no Shinryoujo" (Summer Rescue - Sky Clinic) starting in July on Sundays at 9pm where he plays a promising doctor who gets despatched to a clinic located at a mountain 2000 metres over sea level. He has to cope with a lack of medical equipment and medicine while treating his patients. Filming for the drama will be starting at the end of this month. In preparation for the role, Mukai will be coached by Juntendo University professor Amano Atsushi who was part of the team who operated on the Japanese Emperor in February this year.

Source: Sponichi Annex