Dr. Akagi

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Movie
German title Dr. Akagi
Original title カ ン ゾ ー 先生 Kanzō-sensei
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1998
length 129 minutes
Rod
Director Shōhei Imamura
script Daisuke Tengan, Shōhei Imamura
production Hiso Ino, Koji Matsuda
camera Shigeru Komatsubara
cut Hajime Okayasu
occupation

Dr. Akagi (original title: カ ン ゾ ー 先生 Kanzō-sensei , dt. "Dr. Leber") is a Japanese film by Shōhei Imamura from 1998 . The film is based on a story by Ango Sakaguchi .

action

The film is set in Japan in 1945 in the final weeks of World War II. There is Dr. Akagi, a doctor who visits his patients on foot due to the war-related shortage of petrol, is active. He treats his patients, who mostly suffer from hepatitis , with great devotion and therefore quickly gets the nickname Kanzō-sensei ( German : Dr. Leber ). He researches the causes of hepatitis and is friends with an impoverished Shinto priest and the prostitute Sonoko. When he comes across an escaped Dutch prisoner of war, he hides him at home and treats him. He found out that he was mistreated by the military.

criticism

“With an ironic wink, Imamura staged the simple conditions and traditional values ​​of small town life as a colorful series of pictures. He portrays the behavior of the military more sharply, with which Dr. Akagi regularly clashes because of his prescriptions. Imamura attacks the internal structures of the army in unadorned scenes and gives clear contours to the image of the ugly soldier who in his uniform lets brutal tendencies run free. "

- Christoph Rácz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kanzo Sensei on mybasel.ch