1. Dr. Akagi movie review & film summary (1999) - Roger Ebert
Dr. Akagi is the kind of family doctor that Spencer Tracy might have played in a 1940s Hollywood film--if Hollywood doctors in those days had lived with.
Dr. Akagi is the kind of family doctor that Spencer Tracy might have played in a 1940s Hollywood film--if Hollywood doctors in those days had lived with
2. Dr. Akagi / Kanzo sensei (1998) | Japanonfilm - WordPress.com
May 20, 2023 · Akagi is a doctor on the coast on the outskirts of Hibi, itself only a small port in the south of Japan. As a “family doctor,” he is always ...
Akagi is a doctor on the coast on the outskirts of Hibi, itself only a small port in the south of Japan. As a “family doctor,” he is always on the run from house to house to treat his patients, and…
3. DR. AKAGI (KANZO SENSEI - Dennis Schwartz Reviews
Aug 5, 2019 · This is a comedy/drama about the last days of WW11 that tells about Japan, trying to hold back their inevitable defeat by staying the course under orders from ...
DR. AKAGI (KANZO SENSEI)(director/writer: Shohei Imamura; screenwriters: Daisuke Tengan/based on the book “Dr. Liver” by Ango Sakaguchi; cinematographer: Shigeru Komatsubara; cast: Akira Emoto (Dr. Akagi), Kumiko Aso (Sonoko), Jyuro Kara (Umemoto, a monk), Jacques Gamblin (Piet), Masanori Sera (Toriumi), Keiko Matzuzaka (Sonoko’s mother), Misa Shimizu (Gin); Runtime: 128; Toei Co./Tohoku Shinsha/Kadokawa Shoten; 1998-Jap.) “A strange farcical comedy results, that is often brilliant and at other times too messy to follow in all the cloudy trails it leads to.“
4. Free to Roam [DR. AKAGI] - Jonathan Rosenbaum
May 11, 2024 · The overall treatment of both subjects is mainly realistic, a legacy of Imamura's stint as a documentary filmmaker and his subsequent self- ...
From the Chicago Reader (May 7, 1999). — J.R.
5. Akagi Shigeru - Fukumoto Wiki - Fandom
Akagi Shigeru is the main protagonist of the Akagi series, and a main character in Ten. He is a genius who specializes in gambling.
Akagi Shigeru (赤木しげる Akagi Shigeru) is the main protagonist of the Akagi series, and a main character in Ten. He is a genius who specializes in gambling. Ruling the Japanese underworld for around three years, he is well known as a mahjong legend. Most information about Akagi is unknown. He is described to not have a family, and his birthday, place of birth, and all other personal information, are never specified. He mostly wanders from place to place, gambling to get the money he needs, and int
6. Akagi (2015) - MyDramaList
Jul 2, 2022 · Akagi Shigeru is a young, white-haired mahjong genius. One summer in 1965, he ends up facing off against Washizu Iwao, Japan's King of Darkness.
Akagi Shigeru is a young, white-haired mahjong genius. One summer in 1965, he ends up facing off against Washizu Iwao, Japan’s King of Darkness, who...
7. The True World War II History Behind the Midway Movie | TIME
Nov 8, 2019 · Director Roland Emmerich's new movie Midway, out Friday, is based on the true story of the battle of Midway Island.
"The annals of war at sea present no more intense, heart-shaking shock," Winston Churchill once wrote of the battle
8. New 'Midway' movie shoots for reality, but it's the discovery of wreckage ...
Nov 8, 2019 · "In general, the (characters) for the most part are all true people, and all did what they are depicted as doing in the movie," he said. "In ...
The find served as a reminder of the violence of the famous World War II sea battle, and made for a contrast between the drama on the big screen and the reality on the ocean floor.
9. Dr. Akagi (カンゾー先生, Shohei Imamura, 1998) - Windows on Worlds
Apr 7, 2016 · ... Akagi is the story of one ordinary “family doctor ... Akagi is a good and a kind man and eventually remembers what his true calling is ...
A late career entry from socially minded director Shohei Imamura, Dr. Akagi (カンゾー先生, Kanzo Sensei) takes him back to the war years but perhaps to a slightly more bourgeois milieu than his previous …