Scripted series · Kansai TV
The Faceless Patient
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Faceless Patient actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Faceless Patient reads strongest on Cliffhanger Intensity, Tension and Serialized.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
A surgeon is forced to choose between saving his kidnapped wife and killing an anonymous, faceless patient who might be a dangerous fugitive.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Ryo MoritaDirector
- Izuhara KouichiDirector
Music
- Yuji IwamotoOriginal Music Composer
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