The Outlaw Doctor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| The Outlaw Doctor | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 化外之醫 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 化外之医 | ||||||
| |||||||
| Genre | Crime drama · Medical drama · Suspense | ||||||
| Written by |
| ||||||
| Directed by |
| ||||||
| Starring | |||||||
| Country of origin | Taiwan | ||||||
| Original languages | Taiwanese Mandarin, English, Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian | ||||||
| No. of seasons | 1 | ||||||
| No. of episodes | 11 | ||||||
| Production | |||||||
| Executive producer | Phil Tang | ||||||
| Production companies | GrX Studio Co., Ltd. (瀚草文創) | ||||||
| Original release | |||||||
| Network | Public Television Service | ||||||
| Release | March 8 – April 12, 2025 | ||||||
The Outlaw Doctor (Chinese: 化外之醫; pinyin: Huàwài zhī Yī) is a 2025 Taiwanese crime-medical drama series broadcast on Public Television Service. The series stars Ning Chang and Vietnamese actor Liên Bỉnh Phát, following the story of an undocumented Vietnamese physician who secretly provides medical care to marginalized migrant workers in Taiwan.[2][3]
Set within Taiwan's migrant labor and underground brokerage networks, the series follows Vietnamese doctor Phạm Văn Ninh (Liên Bỉnh Phát), who arrives in Taiwan to earn money for his mother's medical expenses.[4] After encountering exploitation within the labor system while working as a janitor in the morgue, he is drawn into an illicit medical network serving overstayed and undocumented migrant workers. Ninh's path intersects with Liu Tian-cheng (Weber Yang), a human-resource broker navigating the gray zones of migrant labor management, and Zheng Wan-ping (Ning Chang), a neurosurgeon who becomes involved in uncovering the hidden medical underground.[5]
Cast
Main
- Ning Chang as Zheng Wan-ping, a neurosurgeon
- Liên Bỉnh Phát as Dr. Phạm Văn Ninh, an undocumented Vietnamese physician[6]
- Weber Yang as Liu Tian-cheng, a labor broker
Supporting
- Tsai Hsuan Yen as Lin Jing-yu, a nurse in Weida Hospital
- Hsia Teng-hung Wu Zhen-hua, a foreign affairs police officer who speaks Indonesian and has learned some basic Vietnamese.
- Nguyễn Thu Hằng as Hong Yun, patroness of Hong Yun Restaurant