Shiroi Kyotō

1965 Japanese novel

Shiroi Kyotō
First edition
Author	Toyoko Yamasaki
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Publication date	1965

Shiroi Kyotō (白い巨塔, literally "The White Tower") is a 1965 novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It has been adapted into a film in 1966 and then five times as a television series in 1967, 1978, 1990, 2003, and 2019. The 1966 film was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize.^[1]

Summary

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both associate professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

Cast (1966 film)

Shiroi Kyoto
Directed by	Satsuo Yamamoto
Written by	Shinobu Hashimoto Toyoko Yamasaki (novel)
Produced by	Masaichi Nagata
Starring	Jiro Tamiya Eijirō Tōno Takahiro Tamura
Cinematography	Nobuo Munekawa
Music by	Sei Ikeno
Distributed by	Daiei Film
Release date	October 12, 1966 (1966-10-12)
Running time	150 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

Jiro Tamiya - Goro Zaizen
Eijirō Tōno - Professor Azuma
Takahiro Tamura - Shuji Satomi
Eitaro Ozawa - Professor Ugai
Eiji Funakoshi - Professor Kikukawa
Osamu Takizawa - Professor Funao
Kenjiro Ishiyama - Mataichi Zaizen
Yoshi Katō - Professor Ōkouchi
Teruko Kishi - Masako
Mayumi Ogawa - Keiko Hanamori
Shiho Fujimura - Saeko
Toshio Takahara - Tsukuda
Mizuho Suzuki - Hitoshi Sekiguchi

Awards

5th Moscow International Film Festival

Won: Silver Prize^[1]

17th Blue Ribbon Awards

Won: Best Film Award^[2]
Won: Best Screenplay Award^[2]

21st Mainichi Film Award

Won: Best Director Award^[2]
Won: Best Screenplay Award^[2]

Cast (1967 TV series)

Kei Satō - Goro Zaizen
Jun Negami - Shuji Satomi
Isao Yamagata - Professor Azuma

Cast (1978 TV series)

Jiro Tamiya - Goro Zaizen
Gaku Yamamoto - Shuji Satomi
Nobuo Nakamura - Professor Azuma
Eitaro Ozawa - Professor Ugai
Masakane Yonekura - Professor Kikukawa
Shin Saburi - Professor Funao
Meicho Soganoya - Mataichi Zaizen
Yoshi Katō - Professor Ōkouchi
Kō Nishimura - Kyosuke Takemura
Nobuo Kaneko - Jukichi Iwata
Eiji Okada - Seiichi Satomi
Mieko Azuma - Masako Azuma
Kiyoshi Kodama - Hitoshi Sekiguchi
Kiwako Taichi - Keiko Hanamori
Tamao Nakamura - Yoshie Sasaki
Yoko Shimada - Saeko Azuma
Tanie Kitabayashi - Ume Yamada
Choichiro Kawarazaki - Tomohiro Tsukuda
Iemasa Kayumi - Narrator

Cast (1990 TV mini-series)

Hiroaki Murakami - Goro Zaizen
Mitsuru Hirata - Shuji Satomi
Hideaki Nitani - Professor Azuma

Cast (2003 TV series)

Toshiaki Karasawa - Goro Zaizen
Yōsuke Eguchi - Shuji Satomi
Koji Ishizaka - Professor Azuma
Hideaki Itō - Hiroshi Yanagihara
Masato Ibu - Professor Ugai
Toshiyuki Nishida - Mataichi Zaizen
Mayumi Wakamura - Kyoko Zaizen
Hitomi Kuroki - Keiko Hanamori
Takaya Kamikawa - Hitoshi Sekiguchi
Ikki Sawamura - Professor Kikukawa
Tōru Shinagawa - Professor Ōkouchi
Rino Katase - Yoshie Sasaki
Atsuko Takahata - Masako Azuma
Akiko Yada - Saeko Azuma
Takeo Nakahara - Professor Funao
Takatarō Kataoka - Tomohiro Tsukuda

Cast (2019 TV mini-series)

Junichi Okada - Goro Zaizen
Kenichi Matsuyama - Shuji Satomi
Akira Terao - Professor Azuma
Erika Sawajiri - Keiko Hanamori
Shinnosuke Mitsushima - Masahiro Yanagihara
Yutaka Matsushige - Professor Ugai
Kaoru Kobayashi - Mataichi Zaizen
Kaho - Kyoko Zaizen
Rie Mimura - Kimiko Kameyama
Mikako Ichikawa - Natsumi Nosaka
Ittoku Kishibe - Professor Ōkouchi
Toshirō Yanagiba - Yōhei Sasaki
Kayoko Kishimoto - Yoshie Sasaki
Kōji Mukai - Yōichi Sasaki
Reiko Takashima - Masako Azuma
Marie Iitoyo - Saeko Azuma
Kippei Shiina - Professor Funao
Norito Yashima - Tomohiro Tsukuda
Takumi Saitoh - Tōru Sekiguchi
Ikusaburo Yamazaki - Kōichirō Kunihira
Wolfgang Riehm as Dr. Wolf

Awards

21st Mainichi Film Award^[3]

Won: Best Film

References

^ ^a ^b "5th Moscow International Film Festival (1967)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-12-09.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "デジタル大辞泉プラス「白い巨塔」の解説" (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
^ "Japan-movie" 21 1966年 (in Japanese). japan-movie.net. Retrieved 2011-01-08.

External links

Shiroi Kyoto (film) at IMDb
Shiroi Kyoto (film) at AllMovie

Films directed by Satsuo Yamamoto

Tsubasa no gaika (1942)
War and Peace (1947)
Street of Violence (1950)
Ballad of the Cart (1959)
Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)
Men and War (1970–73)
Nomugi Pass (1979)

Awards

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film

1950–2000

Until We Meet Again (1950)
Repast (1951)
Lightning (1952)
An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Floating Clouds (1955)
Mahiru no ankoku (1956)
The Rice People (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Kiku to Isamu (1959)
Her Brother (1960)
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Foundry Town (1962)
The Insect Woman (1963)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Red Beard (1965)
Shiroi Kyotō (1966)
The Fossil (1974)
Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
Third Base (1978)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Kagemusha (1980)
Muddy River (1981)
Fall Guy (1982)
International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1983)
MacArthur's Children (1984)
Ran (1985)
House of Wedlock (1986)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
The Silk Road (1988)
Dotsuitarunen (1989)
Childhood Days (1990)
A Scene at the Sea (1991)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
All Under the Moon (1993)
Like a Rolling Stone (1994)
A Last Note (1995)
Boys Be Ambitious (1996)
Bounce Ko Gals (1997)
Hana-bi (1998)
Taboo (1999)
Battle Royale (2000)

2001–present

Spirited Away (2001)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003)
Nobody Knows (2004)
Break Through! (2005)
Hula Girls (2006)
Kisaragi (2007)
Climber's High (2008)
Mt. Tsurugidake (2009)
Confessions (2010)
Cold Fish (2011)
Our Homeland (2012)
The Story of Yonosuke (2013)
Samurai Hustle (2014)
The Emperor in August (2015)
Shin Godzilla (2016)
Wilderness (2017)
One Cut of the Dead (2018)
Fly Me to the Saitama (2019)
Fukushima 50 (2020)
Last of the Wolves (2021)
A Man (2022)
Godzilla Minus One (2023)

v t e Mainichi Film Award for Best Film
1946–1960	Aru yo no Tonosama (1946) Ima Hitotabi no (1947) Drunken Angel (1948) Late Spring (1949) Until We Meet Again (1950) Repast (1951) Ikiru (1952) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) Floating Clouds (1955) Mahiru no ankoku (1956) The Rice People (1957) The Ballad of Narayama (1958) Kiku to Isamu (1959) Her Brother (1960)
1961–1980	A Soldier's Prayer (1961) Harakiri (1962) High and Low (1963) Woman in the Dunes (1964) Red Beard (1965) Shiroi Kyotō (1966) Samurai Rebellion (1967) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968) Double Suicide (1969) Where Spring Comes Late (1970) Silence (1971) The Long Darkness (1972) Tsugaru Folk Song (1973) Castle of Sand (1974) The Fossil (1975) Fumō Chitai (1976) The Yellow Handkerchief (1977) The Incident (1978) Nomugi Pass (1979) Kagemusha (1980)
1981–2000	Muddy River (1981) Fall Guy (1982) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) W's Tragedy (1984) Ran (1985) The Sea and Poison (1986) A Taxing Woman (1987) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Black Rain (1989) Childhood Days (1990) My Sons (1991) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992) All Under the Moon (1993) A Dedicated Life (1994) A Last Note (1995) Shall We Dance? (1996) Princess Mononoke (1997) Begging for Love (1998) Poppoya (1999) Face (2000)
2001–2020	Spirited Away (2001) The Twilight Samurai (2002) Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003) Blood and Bones (2004) Break Through! (2005) Sway (2006) I Just Didn't Do It (2007) Departures (2008) The Unbroken (2009) Villain (2010) Postcard (2011) A Terminal Trust (2012) The Great Passage (2013) My Man (2014) Three Stories of Love (2015) Shin Godzilla (2016) Hanagatami (2017) Shoplifters (2018) Listen to the Universe (2019) Mother (2020)
2021–present	Drive My Car (2021) Small, Slow But Steady (2022) Okiku and the World (2023)

v t e Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film
1927–1940	Ashi ni sawatta onna (1927) A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1928) Jobless Samurai (1929) Beheading Place (1930) What Made Her Do It? (1931) The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1932) I Was Born, But... (1933) Passing Fancy (1934) A Story of Floating Weeds (1935) Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1936) Sisters of the Gion (1937) Limitless Advance (1938) Five Scouts (1939) Earth (1940)
1941–1960	Kojima no haru (1941) The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1942) The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay (1943) Morning for the Osone Family (1947) A Ball at the Anjo House (1948) Drunken Angel (1949) Late Spring (1950) Until We Meet Again (1951) Early Summer (1952) Ikiru (1953) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1954) Twenty-Four Eyes (1955) Floating Clouds (1956) Darkness at Noon (1957) The Rice People (1958) The Ballad of Narayama (1959) Kiku to Isamu (1960)
1961–1980	Her Brother (1961) Bad Boys (1962) Being Two Isn't Easy (1963) The Insect Woman (1964) Woman in the Dunes (1965) Red Beard (1966) The Great White Tower (1967) Samurai Rebellion (1968) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1969) Double Suicide (1970) Where Spring Comes Late (1971) The Ceremony (1972) The Long Darkness (1973) Tsugaru Folk Song (1974) Sandakan No. 8 (1975) Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1976) The Youth Killer (1977) The Yellow Handkerchief (1978) Third Base (1979) Vengeance Is Mine (1980)
1981–2000	Zigeunerweisen (1981) Muddy River (1982) Fall Guy (1983) The Family Game (1984) The Funeral (1985) And Then (1986) The Sea and Poison (1987) A Taxing Woman (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1989) Black Rain (1990) The Cherry Orchard (1991) My Sons (1992) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1993) All Under the Moon (1994) A Dedicated Life (1995) A Last Note (1996) Shall We Dance? (1997) The Eel (1998) Fireworks (1998) Wait and See (2000)
2001–present	Face (2001) Go (2002) The Twilight Samurai (2003) A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2004) Nobody Knows (2005) Break Through! (2006) Hula Girls (2007) I Just Didn't Do It (2008) Departures (2009) Dear Doctor (2010) Villain (2011) Postcard (2012) Our Homeland (2013) Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2014) The Light Shines Only There (2015) Three Stories of Love (2016) In This Corner of the World (2017) The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2018) Shoplifters (2019) It Feels So Good (2020) Wife of a Spy (2021) Drive My Car (2022) Small, Slow But Steady (2023) Okiku and the World (2024)