Shiroi Dakuryuu (2021) [Ep 1 – 8 END]

Profile

• Drama: White Muddy Stream
• Romaji: Shiroi Dakuryu
• Japanese: 白い濁流

• Director: Naruhide Mizuta, Rieko Miyamoto
• Writer: Kojiro Koyabu (novel), Natsuko Ikeda
• Network: NHK
• Episodes: 8
• Release Date: August 22 – October 10, 2021
• Runtime: Sunday 22:00-22:49
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Synopsis

Kazuki Yoshinami (Atsushi Ito) is a pharmaceutical researcher at a university. His friend Wataru Kashiwagi (Ren Kiriyama) is also a pharmaceutical researcher at the same university. They are rivals, but talk to each other about their dreams. One day, Kazuki Yoshinami has a groundbreaking discovery. This leads to Kazuki Yoshinami and Wataru Kashiwagi becoming involved in a competition among companies over patents. Newspaper reporter Tomoko Kawahara (Nozomi Sasaki), who is Kazuki Yoshinami’s childhood friend, becomes aware of this.