Shôhei Imamura
Kanzo Senseï (Dr. Akagi)
Edition 1998
128'
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1998
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Drama, Comedy
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Dialogue:
German, Japanese
Director:
Shôhei Imamura
Composer:
Yosuke Yamasuiza
With:
Akira Emoto, Kumiko Asô, Jacques Gamblin
On the eve of the Japanese surrender in 1945, in a tense war-torn climate, Dr Akagi, the local doctor in a seaside village takes a stand to save his professional integrity. He bands together with his old buddies, a dissolute monk and a nihilistic morphine-addicted surgeon. The naive and somewhat wild Sonoko joins their group and discovers her destiny working with Akagi. She loves the unusual doctor and wants to spend the rest of her life with him. A wounded Dutch soldier arrives on the scene. An escapee from a prisoner of war camps, he completes this little circle of friends. They are all united in their passion to create a microscope powerful enough to discover the cause of hepatitis virus, Akagi's personal quest.
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Credits
Director
Shôhei Imamura
Composer
Yosuke Yamasuiza
With
Akira Emoto, Kumiko Asô, Jacques Gamblin
Scenario
Shôhei Imamura
Director of Photography
Shigeru Komatsubara
Editor
Hajime Okayasu
Producer
Hisa Ino, Koji Matsuda
More information
Dialogue
German, Japanese
Countries of production
Japan, France
Year
1998
Filmography
Shôhei Imamura
Stolen Desire (1958), Nishi Ginza Station (1958), Endless Desire (1958), My Second Brother (1959), Pigs and Battleships (1961), The Insect Woman (1963), Intentions of Murder (1964), The Pornographers (1966), A Man Vanishes (1967), Profound Desires of the Gods (1968), History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970), Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975), Vengeance Is Mine (1979), Why Not? (1981), The Ballad of Narayama (1983), Zegen (1987), Black Rain (1989), The Eel (1997), Dr. Akagi (1998), Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001), September 11 (2002)
