A Lone Scalpel

Screening Schedule

Nov. 16 (Sun.) 10:00

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Details

Surgeon Touma began working at a local hospital in 1989.  Touma, facing the realities of a flawed medical system, continues to help his patients regardless of past customs and work on difficult surgical operations. His belief inspired people working in the hospital.  One day, the mayor of the local city is admitted into the hospital in critical condition. To save the mayor's life, he must undergo the first liver transplant from a brain-dead donor in Japan. However, the law currently forbids such operations ... what will Touma do?

<Cast>
Shinichi Tsutsumi
Yui Natsukawa
Yu Yoshizawa
Noriko Nakagoshi
Kenichi Yajima
Yutaka Matsushige
Hiroki Narimiya
Tetsuhiko Touma
Mitsuru Hirata
Kimiko Yo
Katsuhisa Namase

Japan 2010
Language: Japanese
126 min.

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Director

Born in Yamanashi in 1961, Izuru Narushima's debut feature, THE HUNTER, (2004) won him Best New Director honours at the 2005 Japanese Professional Movie Awards and the Yokohama Festival. His subsequent films include FLY, DADDY FLY! (2005), MIDNIGHT EAGLE (2007), LOVE FIGHT (2008), A LONE SCALPEL (2010), ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO (2011), REBIRTH (2011), winner of best director at the Japanese Academy, and A CHAIR ON THE PLAINS (2013).