Dr. Fuu Akagi
Search results
Dr. Akagi, known in Japan as Kanzō-sensei (カンゾー先生, literally "Dr. Liver"), is a 1998 Japanese comedy-drama film by director Shohei Imamura. For his work on the film, Yosuke Yamashita was awarded Best Film Score at the 1999 Mainichi Film Concours.
Dr. Akagi is a feisty physician who's determined to halt the hepatitis epidemic plaguing his country as World War II winds toward its explosive close; the motley crew helping him includes a drug-dependent doctor, a former hooker, and a Dutch soldier fresh from torture sessions at the hands of his captors.
Jan 15, 1999 · Dr. Akagi: Directed by Shôhei Imamura. With Akira Emoto, Kumiko Asô, Jacques Gamblin, Tomorô Taguchi. At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
May 7, 1999 · Dr. Akagi is the kind of family doctor that Spencer Tracy might have played in a 1940s Hollywood film--if Hollywood doctors in those days had lived with prostitutes, befriended morphine addicts, sheltered escaped prisoners of war, and dug up bodies to remove their livers.
Nov 14, 2018 · Even though it start with a small-town family doctor, the story soon stretches into a multi-paneled vision of the country in history: from the Macnhurian vivisections to the bureaucracy at all levels, from sex work to embezzlement to alcoholism to monkhood.
Dec 1, 2016 · Based on the book by Ango Sakaguchi, Dr. Akagi is the story of one ordinary “family doctor” in the dying days of World War II. As Dr. Akagi (Akira Emoto) puts it, much of the the life of a family doctor involves running.
Apr 9, 1999 · Shohei Imamura’s masterful, deceptively mellow “Dr. Akagi” takes its title from a physician whose dedication reminded Imamura of his own father. Based on a novel by the late Ango Sakaguchi,...
May 18, 1998 · By Leonard Klady. Two-time Palme d’Or winner Shohei Imamura returns to the festival with one of his most personal outings in “Dr. Akagi.” But the wartime saga of a country...
Based on a novel called "Dr. Liver" by Ango Sakaguchi (who was frank about his drinking and drug use), and set during World War II, "Dr. Akagi" is a bawdy gallows comedy centering on...
May 17, 1998 · Genres Comedy, Drama, History. At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
