Kanzo sensei

Review, by David Sterritt

Winner of 2 Palmes d'Or (1983, 1997), Shohei Imamura returns with an antiheroic drama about a village doctor at the end of WWII, who unites a group of misfits to help him build a microscope large enough to discover the cause of hepatitis. A miniature with universal significance.

Directed by: Shohei Imamura
Written by: Shohei Imamura, Ango Sakaguchi
Starring: Akira Emoto, Kumiko Aso, Juro Kara, Masanori Sera, Jacques Gamblin, Keiko Matsuzaka, Misa Shimizu, Yukiya Kitamura
Produced by: Hiso Ino, Koji Matsuda
Original Music by: Yosuke Yamashita