Shohei Imamura
Dr. Akagi, known in Japan as , is a 1998 Japanese Comedy-drama film by director Shohei Imamura. Imamura is much more highly regarded in his home country and Europe as a key figure in the Japanese New Wave, and is little known in the West. Imamura undertook making Akira Kurosawa's final script, and is the only director from Japan to win two Palme d'Or awards. Yosuke Yamashita was awarded "Best Film Score" for Dr. Akagi at the 1999 Mainichi Film Concours.