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Dear Doctor

Dia dokuta

Japan

2009

127 Min
Color
Japanese
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DIR Miwa Nishikawa

SCR Miwa Nishikawa

DP Katsumi Yanagijima

CAST Eita, Tsurube Shôfukutei, Kaoru Yachigusa, Kimiko Yo, Haruka Igawa, Teruyuki Kagawa

ED Ryuji Miyajima

SOUND Hirokazu Kato, Mitsugu Shiratori

London (World Cinema)

Synopsis

A young medical intern student named Keisuke Soma (Eita) is assigned to work in a remote countryside village. Keisuke at first takes the attitude that this assignment is below his creditentials. His thoughts soon change.

Keisuke Soma then meets the small town’s resident doctor named Dr. Ino (Tsurube Shofukutei), who is universally beloved by the town. The town doctor works diligently around the clock, while knowing virtually everything about the residents’ illnesses and their family history. Keisuke follows Dr. Soma around and starts to learn things he never learned in medical school.

A secret then emerges about Dr. Ino and the town must come to grips with this new knowledge of the man they so admired. –Asian Media Wiki

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Miwa Nishikawa

Miwa Nishikawa (西川美和 Nishikawa Miwa?, born July 8, 1974 in Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima) is a Japanese director. Hirokazu Koreeda produced her feature film Wild Berries (2002) after she worked as an assistant director on his Distance. She was given the Best New Director award at the 2004 Yokohama Film Festival for her film Hebi ichigo. —Wikipedia 

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JFF Dear Doctor Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
With Dear Doctor comes the feeling that something is always awry. It is greater than the sum of its parts and more complicated than it first seems. Coming across initially as a drama serial, the film eventually
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Nippon Connection 2010: DEAR DOCTOR Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Our thanks go out to Chris MaGee and Marc Saint-Cyr at the Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow for sharing their coverage of the 2010 Nippon Connection Film Festival.]Osamu Ino (Tsurube Shôfukutei), a small town doctor
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Nippon Connection 2010: DEAR DOCTOR Review

By Twitchfilm.net on September 15, 2010
[Our thanks go out to Chris MaGee and Marc Saint-Cyr at the Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow for sharing their coverage of the 2010 Nippon Connection Film Festival.]Osamu Ino (Tsurube Shôfukutei), a small town doctor
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