Doctor-X Season 5: Production Overview and Broadcast Ratings

The fifth season of the popular Japanese medical drama series Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon (known in Japanese as ドクターX　～外科医・大門未知子～) was broadcast on the TV Asahi network in Japan. The season ran for ten episodes from October 12 to December 14, 2017, airing in the Thursday 21:00 to 21:54 time slot.

Production and Crew

The series was directed by Naomi Tamura, Hidetomo Matsuda, and Hayato Yamada. The screenplays for the episodes were written by Makoto Hayashi, Toshio Terada, and Takafumi Kosaka.

Cast and Characters

The fifth season features a returning core cast alongside new and recurring supporting characters.

Actor	Character
Ryoko Yonekura	Michiko Daimon
Kento Nagayama	Naoyuki Nishiyama
Yuki Uchida	Hiromi Jonouchi
Kenichi Endo	Takashi Ebina
Kosuke Suzuki	Mamoru Hara

Actor	Character
Kei Tanaka	Hikaru Morimoto
Shuhei Nomura	Ryoji Ito
Taiki Nakabayashi	Wataru Arima
Shuhei Uesugi	Shinji Kurokawa
Mao Daichi	Madoka Shimura

Actor	Character
Takanori Jinnai	Takashi Inomata
Ittoku Kishibe	Akira Kanbara
Yasunori Danta	Takashi Torii
Masao Kusakari	Kagenobu Uchikanda
Toshiyuki Nishida	Shigekatsu Hiruma

Additional guest and supporting cast members include Hitomi Korenaga as Keiko Nakatani, Charlotte Kate Fox as Nanasha Najinsuki (Episode 7), and Ayaka Imoto as Haruka Kokonoe (Episode 9).

Viewership Ratings

According to data provided by Video Research, Ltd., the Kanto region television ratings for Season 5 maintained high viewership, culminating in a peak rating of 25.2% for the final episode.

Episode	Date	Ratings (Kanto Region)
01	10/12/2017	20.9%
02	10/19/2017	19.6%
03	10/26/2017	19.0%
04	11/02/2017	19.1%
05	11/09/2017	20.8%
06	11/16/2017	20.7%
07	11/23/2017	20.1%
08	11/30/2017	20.6%
09	12/07/2017	21.2%
10	12/14/2017	25.2%
Average	-	20.9%