Tag: A Lone Scalpel
-
Japanese Film Festival 2010: Wrap Up
It has been half a week since the end of the Sydney leg of 14th Japanese Film Festival, and we’re slowly coming down off the dizzying heights of the best that Japanese cinema has to offer us. Is Post Festival Displacement (PFD) a treatable disorder, and if so, can we claim it on Medicare? With…
Written by
-
A Lone Scalpel (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
The Closing Night of the 14th Japanese Film Festival in Sydney is an adaptation of Doctor Toshihiko Oogane’s bestselling novel. Drawing on the controversial topic of human organ transplant from brain-dead patients in Japan, where brain-death was not legally recognised for a number of years, it is the second film in the festival (after Dear Doctor)…
Written by
