Film

Young Black Jack

2011 · 2h 8m · Thriller · Drama

IMDb

6.9

On Christmas day, a bomb explodes in a shopping mall. The explosion was perpetrated by a serial bomber. A 9-year-old boy Kuro Hazama and his mother Mitsuko (Naho Toda) are seriously and transfered to a university hospital. With the elite skills of surgeon Dr. Jontaro Honma (Masachika Ichimura), Kuro survives, but is shocked to learn his mother is in a coma. Dr. Honma tells Tokio that when medical science advances, Michiko might one day awake. Tokio decides then to become a doctor. 15 years later, 24-year-old Kuro is a medical student and his mother is still in a coma. Kuro researches ways to awaken his mother whilst practising medicine without a licence.

Masaki Okada

Riisa Naka

Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Kento Kaku

Haru

Takeo Nakahara

• Kentaro OtaniDirector
• Masahiro FukumaWriter
• Naoyuki SakaiWriter
• Osamu TezukaNovel

Release date

April 23, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 8m

Genres

Thriller, Drama