Physician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon become involved in major reforms to the death investigation system of the country and localities when a letter arrives threatening the destruction of Tojo University Hospital and Kerberos Tower in 3 months. Before the pair are able to uncover the truth, an unprecedented rash of suspicious deaths occur which can’t be explained through autopsy. On the day of the AI (Autopsy Imaging) Center’s opening and introduction of a revolutionary new MRI machine called “Leviathan”, further incidents rock the medical community.
Acting
Ito and Nakamura's prickly partnership carries franchise baggage gracefully.
Production
Kerberos Tower's brutalist architecture becomes a character itself.
Director
Hoshino Kazunari
Atsushi Ito
Kohei Taguchi
Toru Nakamura
Keisuke Shiratori
Mirei Kiritani
Yoko Betsuku
Tori Matsuzaka
Hideki Takizawa
Hidetoshi Nishijima
Koichi Hayami
Chiaki Kuriyama
Sumire Sakuranomiya
Katsuhisa Namase
Fumiaki Todo
Shigeyuki Totsugi
Takashi Hasegawa
Takayuki Kinoshita
Shinichi Sato
Go Riju
Daisuke Mifune
Ai Kato
Haruka Izumi
Yūko Natori
Makoto Fujiwara
Bakarhythm
Kinnosuke Watanabe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film concludes the Team Batista trilogy that began as a 2008 Fuji TV drama, with Ito and Nakamura reprising their roles across eight years.
The Kerberos name references the three-headed underworld guardian, nodding to the trilogy's themes of death, medicine, and institutional power.
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