Director Izuru Narushima’s film “Kokou no Mesu,” starring Shinichi Tsutsumi (46), has won the audience-voted award for Best Foreign Film at the 19th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, held in China. The last Japanese film to win the award was “Okuribito” in 2008.
“Kokou no Mesu,” also known by the English title “A Lone Scalpel,” is based on a novel written by a real doctor. Tsutsumi stars as a man motivated to become a doctor after his mother dies due to a faulty diagnosis. While battling the flaws of the medical system, he is faced with the challenge of performing Japan’s first liver transplant from a brain-dead donor.
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Sankei Sports
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