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Black Jack (1993)

December. 12,1993
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7.4
| Animation Drama
Black Jack, 1993, 1 Seasons

Kuroo Hazama, also known as "Black Jack," is a legend in the medical world. Famous for being one of the best, as well as not having a license, Hazama and his assistant Pinoko save countless lives that other doctors cannot... for a price; an exorbitant price, in fact, which causes many to view the genius as greedy and heartless. Despite these claims, however, none can deny his skill and the lengths that he will go to treat his patients. This dark medical drama tells the story of the ominous and mysterious world of underground medicine as Black Jack risks his life to cure some of the most bizarre diseases imaginable, even if it means breaking every law in the process.

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1993
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Kuroo Hazama, also known as "Black Jack," is a legend in the medical world. Famous for being one of the best, as well as not having a license, Hazama and his assistant Pinoko save countless lives that other doctors cannot... for a price; an exorbitant price, in fact, which causes many to view the genius as greedy and heartless. Despite these claims, however, none can deny his skill and the lengths that he will go to treat his patients. This dark medical drama tells the story of the ominous and mysterious world of underground medicine as Black Jack risks his life to cure some of the most bizarre diseases imaginable, even if it means breaking every law in the process.

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Seasons & Episode

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Seasons 1 : 1993

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12 Episode

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Episode 6 - Night Time Tale in the Snow
May. 21,1996

Black Jack receives a large box of old Japanese currency from Saburo Taneda with an urgent request to treat his dying wife, however it was sent two years ago. Jack and Pinoko travel to Yashaga Mountain, through a snow storm, but become bogged and fall asleep. Jack awakes and sees a temple so he leaves Pinoko with a monk, Lady Kaoru, and continues by foot. He is caught in an ancient battle between the samurai Saburo Taneda and his enemies. Jack meets Princess Ikehata who ate the poisonous gamakazura fruit four years earlier rather than marry Lord Rokuyoji against her will and since then she has suffered seizures and violent fits. Abumaru, a messenger from Lady Kaoru the spurned wife of Lord Rokuyoji, visits Saburo and demands that he surrender Ikehata. Jack operates on the princes to repair an irregular heartbeat, which releases a giant snake. Saburo kills the snake which also causes the death of Lady Kaoru. Following the operation Saburo and Ikehata flee together, but are killed by Rokuyoji's troops. Meanwhile, Abumaru kills Rokuyoji in revenge for his poor treatment of Kaoru. The storm clears and Jack awakes, realizing that he has had a dream, and he is taken by Saburo to see his sick wife. Jack diagnoses that she has mesothelioma and prepares to take her to the hospital, but surprisingly finds that Saburo died two years earlier, and his wife was cared for by neighbors who resemble Kaoru and Abumaru.

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Episode 7 - Black and White
August. 21,1998

Yasuhiko Shirabyoshi, the wealthy chief of surgery at the Tozai University is shocked when his fiancée, Catherine, asks for a six month postponement of their wedding, because she has volunteered to provide medical assistance for people affected by the civil war in Adentarl. Catherine encounters Jack on her way to a refugee camp, where he searches for a girl called Karen Aramis on behalf of her mother, Saranda and crime boss grandfather Patterson, because she has the hereditary heart ailment, Tetralogy of Fallot. Jack operates on her in a field hospital assisted by Catherine who travels back to New York by helicopter while Jack stays to treat the refugees. He refuses to work in the camp for free and demands one dollar per patient. Meanwhile, the immanent Dr. Stanfield calls together a panel of the International Medical Association (IMA). He proposes that Jack be granted an international medical licence, because he believes that medical ability is not a case of black or white, however Shirabyoshi objects. Jack arrives in New York, and while at a karaoke bar, Patterson is shot and rushed to hospital. Shirabyoshi refuses to allow Jack to operate without a licence and commences surgery to remove the bullets himself. However, Shirabyoshi lacks the practical experience, and he allows Jack to finish the surgery. A month later the IMA unanimously vote to grant jack a medical licence, but he is not present. Back at home, Jack receives a large package from Adentarl containing many IOUs for one dollar.

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Episode 10 - Sinking Woman
July. 25,2000

The D.L. Chemical company is found guilty of poisoning people who ate fish caught in the bay which were affected by the toxic waste that flowed into Mikazuki Bay. It is ordered to pay damages for many people who have died and hundreds who have suffered various symptoms as a result of heavy metal toxemia. Representatives from D.L. Chemical ask Jack to assist in helping 300 patients urgently needing surgery. Jack and Pinoko stop at a Shinto shrine, which locals call the Mermaid Shrine. It based on the story of Jiro, a fisherman fell in love with Nagi, a mermaid. Nagi prayed the Lord of the Dragon Palace to change her tail into legs so she could be with Jiro, however when she dived back into the water to find a blue pearl demonstrate her love for Jiro, she drowned. Jack and Pinoko stay a Inn and hot springs where they meet Tsukiko, a young woman crippled by the Mikazuki syndrome who sells fish for a living even though the buyers don’t eat them. Jack visits Dr. Fox at the hospital to discuss to project, but rumors circulate of an unlicensed doctor on the team, and Jack declines to work on the project. Returning home, Jack sees Tsukiko who is no longer able to walk and he performs knee replacement surgery. However, Tsukiko misses the sea, and one night she returns to the bay and drowns. When carrying out the autopsy, blue pearls are found in her duodenum which Jack keeps as a possible key to curing the Mikazuki syndrome.

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Kuroo Hazama, also known as "Black Jack," is a legend in the medical world. Famous for being one of the best, as well as not having a license, Hazama and his assistant Pinoko save countless lives that other doctors cannot... for a price; an exorbitant price, in fact, which causes many to view the genius as greedy and heartless. Despite these claims, however, none can deny his skill and the lengths that he will go to treat his patients. This dark medical drama tells the story of the ominous and mysterious world of underground medicine as Black Jack risks his life to cure some of the most bizarre diseases imaginable, even if it means breaking every law in the process.

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Director
Osamu Dezaki
Cast
Akio Otsuka, Yuko Mizutani
Producted By
Tezuka Productions
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