Dr. Akagi

Dr. Akagi (Akira Emoto) is a country doctor in the last months of the Second World War, and he has decided that hepatitis is the disease he will beat. Shōhei Imamura follows him from patient to patient, with the same hurried stride and the same conviction that the cure is within reach. Meanwhile the war is ending around him, and a prisoner-of-war camp is where his research has led.