A young medical intern student named Keisuke Soma is assigned to work in a remote countryside village. He meets the small town's resident doctor named Dr. Ino who is universally beloved by the town.
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.
Caught this at the closing of Singapore International Film Festival.
I went to the theatre without even reading the synopsis.
Have been rather caught up with work and i said okay to watch this only because it's Japanese :x
And so it turns out that the small town's resident doctor is actually a bogus.
He is not a qualified doctor.
However, he truly cares for his patients and he'll spend lots of time going around the small town to visit the old people, just to make sure that they are doing fine.
The film questions what a qualities a good doctor should have.
If a doctor is technically good but does not truly care about his patients, does that qualify him as a good doctor?
Lots of familiar faces in this movie.
Quite a number of the actors/actresses appeared in other Japanese movies and i think this is also a sign that i'm really watching a lot of Japanese films :D
Fantastic cinematography of Japan's countryside.
Very interesting and well-structured plot.
Given the nature of the story, the director can actually present this film in a more "drama" way but however, the film was presented it in a more light-hearted way, which makes it easier for the audience to empathize with the bogus doctor.
Just one thing lacking though - I feel it would have been more complete if the movie shows why the bogus doctor decided to take on this path.