Masshiro

Masshiro (まっしろ) is a Japanese soap opera series created by Yumiko Inoue. She wrote the screenplay based on her own experiences of her father being in hospital. Maki Horikita played the lead role as a nurse. It premiered on TBS on 13 January 2015, and concluded 17 March 2015, airing 10 episodes.

Cast

 * Maki Horikita as Akari Arimura, a nurse who wants to marry a wealthy man
 * Yūya Yagira as Kōtarō Nakano, a young surgeon who studied cutting-edge medicine in the United States
 * Mirai Shida as Nana Matsuoka, Arimura's nurse colleague
 * Rin Takanashi as Yūko Wada, Arimura's nurse colleague
 * Ken Ishiguro as Masataka Satō, a director of the Tōō hospital surgical center
 * Miki Mizuno as Megumi Iwabuchi, a veteran nurse
 * Tae Kimura as Shizuka Tanoshima, a head nurse