About the show Psychiatrist Dr. Ichirō Irabu encounters three patients: aspiring actress Hiromi Yasukawa, who fears stalkers; timid office worker Tetsuya Taguchi, who has priapism; and young yakuza leader Seiji Ino, who fears spiky objects. The linked stories adapt material from Hideo Okuda’s collections In the Pool and Flying Trapeze.
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Alternate titles and translations 닥터 이라부 · ko Sources: Wikipedia page identity · Wikipedia source revision · Catalog year research: Doctor Irabu
Wikipedia source revision : Wikipedia contributors, Kim Dong-yeon (director); revision 1372431539. History: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kim%20Dong-yeon%20%28director%29&action=history ; license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . Synopsis paraphrased during individual-page model review. Catalog year basis: The director’s credit table gives a first run beginning 18 October 2007 and ending 13 January 2008; narrative prose instead says it premiered 18 October 2008 and credits 2008. Select the earliest documented performance year 2007 as estimated because the source conflicts.
Catalog year research: Doctor Irabu : Reviewed 11 November 2026. Contemporaneous October 19, 2007 report identifies Kim Dong-yeon's adaptation opening October 18; PlayDB confirms October 18, 2007–January 13, 2008 run. Resolves Wikipedia's erroneous 2008 narrative. This assessment supersedes earlier catalog-year fallback notes for this record.