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.
Jin (Season 1)
Episode 1 (Episode 1)
Air date: 2009-10-11
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: Suddenly finding himself in the Edo period, neurosurgeon Jin Minakata tries to return to the present day. But an oddly familiar stranger intervenes.
Episode 2 (Episode 2)
Air date: 2009-10-18
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: As Jin struggles to process the startling reality of his situation, a resurgence of a mysterious illness frightens residents across the city of Edo.
Episode 3 (Episode 3)
Air date: 2009-10-25
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Just as Jin learns the shogunate will support his efforts to treat cholera patients with new techniques, he suddenly shows signs of infection.
Episode 4 (Episode 4)
Air date: 2009-11-01
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Episode 5 (Episode 5)
Air date: 2009-11-08
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Jin takes on the ambitious task of producing penicillin to help Nokaze’s sister, a patient suffering terribly during the final stage of syphilis.
Episode 6 (Episode 6)
Air date: 2009-11-15
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: While visiting an eminent doctor of traditional medicine, Jin is pressed about his medical background — and soon gets an opportunity to prove himself.
Episode 7 (Episode 7)
Air date: 2009-11-22
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Episode 8 (Episode 8)
Air date: 2009-11-29
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Episode 9 (Episode 9)
Air date: 2009-12-06
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: With both Nokaze and Saki developing strong romantic feelings for Jin, bells ring out across Edo warning of a dangerous fire engulfing the city.
Episode 10 (Episode 10)
Air date: 2009-12-13
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: When Jin visits Yoshiwara to examine Nokaze before her impending marriage, he notices something concerning during the exam but chooses to stay silent.
Episode 11 (Episode 11)
Air date: 2009-12-20
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Jin wonders whether Ryoma might have traveled into the future during their tumble from the cliff. Saburi and Jin reexamine Nokaze’s symptoms together.
