Dr. Akagi 1998  N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Shohei Imamura
Cast: Akira Emoto, Kumiko Aso, Jyuro Kara, Jacques Gamblin, Masanori Sera, Keiko Matsuzaka, Misa Shimizu, Yukiya Kitamura, Masato Yamada, Tomorowo Taguchi
In the Spring of 1945 a family doctor on a Japanese island obsesses over the ever-mounting cases of hepatitis among his patients. They live in the squalor inherent during wartime when one's country is losing the war.
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Happiness of the Katakuris 2001 R, 113 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Kenji Sawada, Naomi Nishida, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Tetsuro Tamba, Naoto Takenaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano, Moeko Ezawa, Tamaki Miyazaki, Takashi Matsuzaki, Kenichi Endo, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Yoshiki Arizono, Chihiro Asakawa, Yumeki Kanazawa
This dark musical comedy concerns the dysfunctional Katakuri family as they renovate and then open a lodge in a remote part of Japan. It is expected that tourism will boom when the projected highway is built. But the problems start with the first guest, a sickly man, who commits suicide. Not wanting bad publicity, they bury the body in the backyard. The next guest, likewise, dies–of a heart attack, and so it goes with guest after guest, and the ground fills with bodies. Still no highway, but the nearby volcano adds to their problems.
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| 1. Dr. Akagi (1998)
2. Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
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