Rupture — Season 1, Episode 3: Episode 3
Drama, Mystery • 44 min • 1 season, 7 episodes
Episode synopsis
Kamura (Kihei Shiina) reveals the existence of side effects to the world so that his therapy will not be misused by Sakuma (Kenichi Takifuji). While doing his best to improve it, he moves to expose the insider with Sakuma who caused the suspicious document uproar. Meanwhile, Sakuma, who has lost the card that captures Kamura, keeps an eye on the fate of the medical malpractice lawsuit in order to seize a new weakness. Meanwhile, the plaintiff's lawyer, Kimiko (Maki Sakai), is trying to get to the heart of the matter by obtaining a surgical needle that Kamura has left behind in the patient's body.
About Rupture
Kamura Yoichiro is a distinguished heart surgeon who had discovered the cure to rejuvenate aging failing hearts. However, Kamura is unaware of the side-effect of the cure that he had invented... the heart will rupture when it is over stimulated. Sakuma Kazuhisa is a bureaucrat who believes that the old are a problem to society. He feels that they are good-for-nothings who should be eliminated before they destroy the country. Suspecting Kamura's cure to have a negative side-effect, Sakuma plots to use it to achieve his nefarious objectives. Kuraki Rentaro was once a famous actor. His heart is failing, but he wishes to star in one last film before he dies, and so he opts for the procedure under Kamura.