00-00-0000 Dr Akagi Set in a small fishing village outside Hiroshima during the final days of World War II.

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Dr Akagi

Set in a small fishing village outside Hiroshima during the final
days of World War II, Dr Akagi, Shohei Imamura's 25th feature film
to date, gracefully and ironically proffers a close, personal and unsettling
peek into the charming yet dysfunctional townsfolk just days before
Japan's tragic defeat. At the epicenter, Dr Akagi, who functions
as often as the town's therapist as its doctor, drafts a cluster of willing
but oddball disciples -- a morphine-addicted surgeon an escaped

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