The Wife of Seish� Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seish� Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, �Tsusensan�, some forty years before the better-known innovations of his American counterparts Long, Wells and Morton.

Starring:

Raiz� Ichikawa, Hideko Takamine, Ayako Wakao

Genre:

Drama, History