Miwa Nishikawa - Dia dokuta aka Dear Doctor (2009)

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"Dear Doctor," the latest film by director Miwa Nishikawa ("Yureru"), will be in the World Competition category at this year's Montreal World Film Festival. Celebrating its 33rd year, the festival is scheduled to take place from August 27 to September 7.

The film stars popular rakugo artist Tsurube Shofukutei as a doctor who has earned the trust of the locals in his little remote town. One day he suddenly disappears, and as the search for him progresses, an unexpected truth begins to surface. Shofukutei's supporting cast includes Eita as a medical trainee, Kimiko Yo as a nurse, Teruyuki Kagawa as a pharmacist, and Kaoru Yachigusa as one of the doctor's patients.

With "Dear Doctor," Nishikawa is hoping to pick up another win for Japan. Last year, Yojiro Takita's "Okuribito" ("Departures") claimed the grand prize, and Eiji Okuda's "Nagai Sanpo" ("A Long Walk") won the same award in 2006

The film is a psychological drama about a small town doctor and his mysterious past. Fresh out of medical school, Soma (Eita) makes the two-hour trip from the city to a small village to assume his new post at a small clinic. The mild-mannered man in charge of the clinic, Ino (Tsurube Shofukutei), had suddenly arrived in the village several years earlier. The residents knew nothing about him, but as he began treating them for everything from minor ailments to heart disease they came to trust him implicitly. One day a young widow named Kazuko (Kaoru Yachigusa) visits Ino for a check-up after having avoided hospitals for most of her life. Through her subsequent diagnosis and treatment, an unexpected truth about Ino is eventually revealed.

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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Miwa Nishikawa - Dia dokuta aka Dear Doctor (2009)

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