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Dr. Akagi.(Review) (movie review)
Artforum International, February, 1999 by Hampton, Howard
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The seventy-two-year-old Japanese director Shohei Imamura's studies in aberrant humanity have been nothing if not singular. The Eel (1997) was undoubtedly the best film ever made about a man's near-cosmic oneness with his pet fish, and Imamura's latest, Dr. Akagi (which opened in mid-January in New York), is more accomplished still: It's the winningest comedy of all time .
. . about hepatitis. The title character (fervently played by Akira Emoto)is nicknamed "Dr. Liver" because he diagnoses disease of that organ in virtually every patient he treats. We first catch sight of ...
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