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Life of a Country Doctor
Film / 1960

Life of a Country Doctor

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Drama

★ 8.5/10Audience rating

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful …

The story

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful he himself wants to become a physician.

Cast

Takashi Shimura Hisaya Morishige Setsuko Hara Yōsuke Natsuki Chiemi Eri So Yamamura Yoshibumi Tajima Akira Tani Yoshio Kosugi Noriko Honma Gen Shimizu Mutoshi Happa
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Fuyuki Murakami Ichirō Nakatani Chieko Nakakita Ikio Sawamura Toshio Takahara Hisao Toake Unpei Yokoyama Tsuruko Mano Yutaka Sada Masayoshi Nagashima

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