Jin

After awakening in the Edo era, a neurosurgeon uses his medical knowledge to help those around him while searching for a way back to the present day.

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Seasons

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2009-10-11

Suddenly finding himself in the Edo period, neurosurgeon Jin Minakata tries to return to the present day. But an oddly familiar stranger intervenes.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2009-10-18

As Jin struggles to process the startling reality of his situation, a resurgence of a mysterious illness frightens residents across the city of Edo.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2009-10-25

Just as Jin learns the shogunate will support his efforts to treat cholera patients with new techniques, he suddenly shows signs of infection.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2009-11-01

Jin meets a courtesan with a striking resemblance to his fiancée in present-day Tokyo. She asks him to perform a life-saving operation on her father.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2009-11-08

Jin takes on the ambitious task of producing penicillin to help Nokaze’s sister, a patient suffering terribly during the final stage of syphilis.

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 2009-11-15

While visiting an eminent doctor of traditional medicine, Jin is pressed about his medical background — and soon gets an opportunity to prove himself.

7. Episode 7

Air Date: 2009-11-22

When Jin learns of a patient with a terrible burn, he wants to help her. But the treatment requires a skin graft and a large amount of penicillin.

8. Episode 8

Air Date: 2009-11-29

Nokaze asks Jin to treat a sick courtesan, but he needs stronger penicillin to cure her. Kyotaro gets an idea to secure the funds required to make it.

9. Episode 9

Air Date: 2009-12-06

With both Nokaze and Saki developing strong romantic feelings for Jin, bells ring out across Edo warning of a dangerous fire engulfing the city.

10. Episode 10

Air Date: 2009-12-13

When Jin visits Yoshiwara to examine Nokaze before her impending marriage, he notices something concerning during the exam but chooses to stay silent.

11. Episode 11

Air Date: 2009-12-20

Jin wonders whether Ryoma might have traveled into the future during their tumble from the cliff. Saburi and Jin reexamine Nokaze’s symptoms together.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2011-04-17

Jin examines Saki’s ill mother after learning that she may have beriberi disease due to malnutrition. Ryoma arrives from Kyoto seeking Jin’s help.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2011-04-24

Jin considers the risks of interfering with history by treating an imperial princess with suspected beriberi. An old acquaintance appears before him.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2011-05-01

Locked away in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Jin endures harsh conditions and torture. Ryoma and Kyotaro fight to prove his innocence.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2011-05-08

As the Jinyudo doctors continue trying to create penicillin in powder form, Taki asks Jin for help in treating a noblewoman from an important family.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2011-05-15

Jin does all he can to help a renowned kabuki actor suffering from severe lead poisoning and limb paralysis to perform on stage one last time.

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 2011-05-22

While visiting Nagasaki to teach other doctors about penicillin, Jin catches up with Ryoma but senses that something about him has changed.

7. Episode 7

Air Date: 2011-05-29

After receiving a wedding invitation from Nokaze, Saki and Jin go to Yokohama for the occasion. But during the visit, Nokaze wants Jin to examine her.

8. Episode 8

Air Date: 2011-06-05

As Ryoma fully devotes himself to achieving a return to imperial rule, Jin battles to protect the lives of both a struggling Nokaze and her child.

9. Episode 9

Air Date: 2011-06-12

As Jin rushes to Kyoto with Saki and Saburi to prevent Ryoma’s assassination, Kyotaro heads for the same destination with a very different mission.

10. Episode 10

Air Date: 2011-06-19

Jin, Saki and Saburi perform a major surgery to try and save Ryoma’s life. The Jinyudo doctors face charges of teaching how to create fake penicillin.