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...says he likes to make "messy, really human, Japanese, unsettling films," and Dr. Akagi fills Imamura's bill. The plot--a family doctor (Akira Emoto) dedicates himself to fighting a hepatitis epidemic in the last days of World War II--might suggest solemn hagiography. But Akagi boasts the loopy zest and daringly shifty tones of Preston Sturges' medical comedy-drama, The Great Moment. Akagi is aided by a morphine-addict doctor and a semi-reformed whore (smart, sensuous Kumiko Aso). This movie has it all: whales, A-bombs and some prime sexual kink. Forty years into directing, Imamura says this...
...politics, from sports to erotica. Says Iwase: "Our readers are sarariman (salary men) whose favorite topics of conversation are office affairs and professional baseball. We knew there was a tremendous market there." Last year K.K. presented the market with How to Enjoy Baseball Ten Times More by Takenori Emoto, a former professional baseball player ("You feel tempted to make fun of the 50,000 spectators"). The book was ghosted like many of K.K.'s assembly-line products. "Sometimes we think of the title first and then make the book to fit it," Iwase explains. "Take the new bestseller...
...despondency. Akira's father found him a bride. Though it was an arranged marriage, Akira seemed pleased with his pretty, 19-year-old Chieko, and she with him. They delayed their honeymoon because they did not have enough money. One day last week, Emoto announced gaily: "My uncle in Iwakuni wants us to go up there for our honeymoon, and he has sent me the tickets...
...Emoto took his bride aboard an All Nippon Airways DC-3, put her in a front seat, himself took a seat beside the plane door. The stewardess noted that he watched carefully how she bolted the door, but thought nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time...
Luckily for Emoto's bride and the 25 other passengers and crew of the DC-3, Emoto's departure was not quite as spectacular as he intended. In his canvas bag were found two sticks of dynamite. In the plane's toilet were 25 more sticks, a burned fuse and a percussion cap that had failed to explode...