Dr. Akagi Movie Review 1998

In 1945, the dedicated Dr. Akagi (Emoto) is more worried about a hepatitis epidemic in his seaside village that the Japanese wartime defeat. He becomes obsessed with finding a cure and assembles a ragtag group of compatriots to assist him, including a teenaged prostitute and an escaped Dutch prisoner of war. Based on the novel "Dr. Liver" by Ango Sakaguchi. Japanese with subtitles.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 128 minutes.
Originally from Japanese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II, Japan, Doctors & Nurses, Disease of the Week

Screenplay

Shohei Imamura, Daisuke Tengan

Cast

Akira (Tsukamoto) Emoto, Jacques Gamblin, Kumiko Aso, Masanori Sera, Jyuro Kara, Keiko Matsuzaka

Cinematography

Shigeru Komatsubara

Director

Shohei Imamura

Music

Yosuke Yamashita