Dr. Akagi

Dr. Akagi (1998)

  • 94% of critics liked it
    (17 reviews)

  • 67% of users liked it
    (777 ratings)

Following up on his acclaimed and Cannes Grand Prix-winning Unagi, veteran iconoclast Shohei Imamura directs this gleefully ragged tale about one very dedicated, though defiantly eccentric, doctor during the waning days of the Second World War. Dr. Akagi (Akira Emoto) is a small-town physician who… More

Unrated, 2 hr. 9 min.
Directed By
Shohei Imamura
Genres
Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 28, 1998 Wide
On DVD
Jan 14, 2003

Critic Reviews

  • Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

    Accomplished at expressing the complexities of human nature and emotions, Imamura has captured a sense of timelessness to the extent that we all but forget the time and place.

  • J. Hoberman, Village Voice

    As lively, irreverent, and bizarrely cheerful as any of Imamura's previous low-life sagas.

  • Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle

    Confirms for anyone who saw The Eel that here is one of world cinema's great humanists.

  • Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

    A daring mix of humor and sadness.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    It does make [Imamura], in his mid-70's, arguably the youngest-hearted filmmaker in Japan.

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  • Hal M


    This film has the basic materials to be very good indeed. 1945, Japan. Dr. Akagi on his mission to combat an epidemic of hepatitis; helped in that mission by an escaped POW; while he manages to resist the advances of a young sexpot. Unfortunately, it doesn't resolve itself… More

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