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15 January 1999 (USA) morePlot:
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
9 wins & 10 nominations moreUser Comments:
DR. AKAGI (Shohei Imamura, 1998) *** more (8 total)Cast
(Credited cast) | Akira Emoto | ... | Dr. Fuu Akagi |
| Kumiko Asô | ... | Sonoko |
| Juro Kara | ... | Umemoto |
| Masanori Sera | ... | Toriumi |
| Jacques Gamblin | ... | Piet |
| Keiko Matsuzaka | ... | Tomiko |
| Misa Shimizu | ... | Gin |
| Yukiya Kitamura | ... | Sankichi |
| Masato Yamada | ... | Masuyo |
| Tomorowo Taguchi | ... | Nosaka |
| Masatô Ibu | ... | Ikeda |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Wayne Doster | ... | Robert Hugh Harper |
| Ben Hiura | ||
| Ayumi Ito | ||
| Shoten Kadokawa | ||
| Kazuhiko Kanayama | ... | Sakashita (as Kozuhiko Kanayama) |
 | Nae | ||
| Atsuko Nakamura | ||
| Tohoku Shinsha | ||
| Shinya Yamamoto | (as Shin-yo Yamamoto) | |
| Hatsuo Yamaya | ||
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Argentina:128 min | Japan:129 minColor:
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Dolby SRCertification:
South Korea:15 | Argentina:16 | Chile:18 | France:U | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud)Filming Locations:
Hiroshima, JapanFun Stuff
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Interesting if typically overlong multi-character drama with a wartime setting, about the exploits of an ageing and old-fashioned doctor (whose diagnosis for all his patients is always the same: hepatitis!) in a fishing community. Several enjoyable vignettes along the way: the young prostitute who becomes the doctor's aide but continues in her clandestine profession against his better judgment; the doctor's appearance at a Tokyo medical conference, in which he is moved to tears by the reception given him by the more illustrious colleagues present; the girl hiding an injured soldier who has escaped from a P.O.W. camp, involving the doctor and several other people from the village (who are later tortured by the authorities); the girl hunting a blue whale, in emulation of her legendary fisherman father, at the film's surprising and strangely beautiful climax - after which she and the doctor witness the historic blast of the atom bomb (which, to the latter appears in the form of an enlarged liver, a common trait of the dreaded hepatitis!).