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The Great White Tower

白い巨塔

(c)KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1966

Release Date: October, 15th, 1966

Running Time: 150 min

Genre: Feature

Color: Monochrome

Screening Format: -,U-maticSP

Screen Size: Cinema Scope (1:2.35)

Sound Processing: -

Subtitle: English

[ Directed by ]

YAMAMOTO Satsuo

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

HASHIMOTO Shinobu ── Screenplay
YAMASAKI Toyoko ── Original Story
IKENO Sei ── Music

[ Production Company ]

DAIEI

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

DAIEI

[ Story ]

Young Dr. Zaizen is intent upon making a name for himself in the big hospital in which he works and fully intends to take the place of the head doctor, due to retire shortly. In order to do this he curries favour, plays politics - and neglects his patients to the extent that one of them dies. He is made head doctor, but the victim's widow takes him to court where, it becomes apparent, the ethics of the entire Japanese medical profession are on trial.

【Quoted from the database of Kadokawa Corporation】
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1967 10.1】

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