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  • TITLE: DR. AKAGI
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  • CAST: Akira Emoto,Kumiko Aso,Jyuro Karr,Jacques Gamblin
  • DIRECTOR: Imamura, Shohei
  • LENGTH: 128 min.
  • COLOR_B&W_TINTED: Color
  • RELEASE_DATE: 1998
  • GENRE_MAIN: Drama
  • GENRE_SECOND: WW II
  • GENRE_THIRD: Black Comedy
  • COUNTRY_OF_ORIGIN: Japan
  • LANGUAGE: Japanese
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  • RIGHTS_TV: TV
  • AVAILABILITY_DATE: 11/1/99
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  • SYNOPSIS: An absurdist romp set in the last days of WWII, Dr. Akagi runs -literally- from patient to patient in his unending race against bad health. Dubbed "Dr. Liver" because of his obsession with hepatitis, Akagi seems a comic figure to the people of the village. In his haste, his passion and the way he's mocked, Akagi has all the markings of a prophet. Akagi's disciples are all misfits and outcasts - a morphine-addicted surgeon, an alcoholic, an embezzling accountant- but within Imamura's critique of Japanese society they all serve a function, their faults being part of the fabric of the community. It is, in fact, the soldiers and the solid citizens who cause the most havoc, while Akagi seeks his cure for hepatitis. Magical realism and radical mood swings mark DR. AKAGI, which more or less ignores the war - and then brings it back in a stunning coda that reorders all that has come before. Akagi's eccentric saintliness is ultimately less divine than existential - a Sisyphean slap at insurmountable evil. "A sprawling, earthy eccentric black comedy, stronger than THE EEL" J.Hoberman,Village Voice ****1/2 Stunning! An absurdist romp."John Anderson, Newsday "Brilliant! Brimming with humanity and humor tied to a darker, violent...sexually kinky undercurrent." Thelma Adams, New York Post

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