Dr. Akagi (1998)
Dr. Akagi (1998)
HDTV | MKV | 1280 x 696 | x264 @ 5000 Kbps | 129 min | 4,91 Gb
Audio: Japanese AAC 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Comedy, Drama | Director: Shôhei Imamura
HDTV | MKV | 1280 x 696 | x264 @ 5000 Kbps | 129 min | 4,91 Gb
Audio: Japanese AAC 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Comedy, Drama | Director: Shôhei Imamura
Dr. Akagi, a rural physician in Japan during WWII, wages a one-man crusade against hepetitis, earning him a reputation as "Dr. Liver." But his fanatic campaign brings him into disfavor with the Japanese army, and as the war seems more and more hopeless for the Japanese, Dr. Akagi finds himself increasingly a scapegoat.
IMDB - 9 wins
This movie is outstanding both as art and as philosophy. Artistically, Imamura has great range and is able to make quick switches of tone and style without losing the thread, or the audience. There is a similar yoking of divergent feelings in the relationship that develops between the two main characters. They are wildly incompatible to the end, yet together they form something that we know is right. Philosophically, Imamura does what no one in Hollywood would dare attempt. In the atmosphere of moral relativism that American films have promoted since the 60s, nothing is more preposterous than to hunger and thirst after justice. But Imamura's final film vindicates that hunger and makes us want to share it. The story's surprises are so intricately prepared that I can't say much more without ruining it, but I left the theater profoundly exhilarated.IMDB Reviewer,
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Dr. Akagi (1998)
Dr. Akagi (1998)
Dr. Akagi (1998)
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