Yoshio Harada
Birthday: 1940-02-29
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Yoshio Harada (February 29, 1940 - July 19, 2011) was a Japanese actor. A veteran of over 80 films, he has twice been nominated for the Best Actor Japanese Academy Award. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for Dotsuitarunen and Kiss yori kantan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yoshio Harada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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What's a Director?
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association...
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Hana
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...
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Party 7
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room:...
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Still Walking
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear....
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The Fang in the Hole
A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bul...
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The Hunted
Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of dange...
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The Story of PuPu
Fu and Suzu are two hedonist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a journey to visi...
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Bare Essence of Life
Yojin, an eccentric young farmer living in the countryside, falls in love for the first time in his ...
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The Trail of Blood
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a ...
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Nightmare Detective
When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is calle...
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Another Heaven
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the ...
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Evil Emblem
Aida, a daredevil detective who isn't afraid of power or challenges. The great evil has begun invest...
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Hunter in the Dark
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom...
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Dororo
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, i...
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9 Souls
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track dow...
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Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the ...
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Manhunt
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted...
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Then Summer Came
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “go...
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The Fearless Avenger
Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being cap...
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No More Comics!
Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions thr...
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I Wish
Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorc...
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescenc...
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Wet Sand in August
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their ha...
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The Assassination of Ryoma
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tr...
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The Triple Cross
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who...
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Heaven's Bookstore
Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man...
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Yumeji
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter...
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Zigeunerweisen
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through...
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Kagero-za
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife....
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Ronin-gai
Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attem...
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Preparation for the Festival
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in....
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Aegis
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to...
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Out of Focus
A magazine publisher called Out Of Focus hires a new female camerawoman. This company is located in ...
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Lost Love
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent famil...
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Tattoo
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, pla...
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Onibi: The Fire Within
After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But th...
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a ...
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Little DJ
Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Soun...
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Slaughter in the Snow
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of M...
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Let Him Rest in Peace
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, so...
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Someday
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's li...
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Outlaw Cop
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away wi...
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Karaoke Terror
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him ...
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A Forest with No Name
Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigio...
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The Last Frankenstein
Professor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the Professor's w...
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Shogun's Samurai
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...
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Madness in Bloom
Yamaguchi, Ichikawa and Kosuge dress in white military-style uniforms to "clean" the streets of Shib...
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The Whispered City
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a b...
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The Face of Jizo
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The fi...
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The Breath
Haida, once a famous private detective, is now down and out and running out of reasons to live. One ...
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Circus Boys
Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides ...
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A Boy's Summer in 1945
Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Su...
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Pickpocket
Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: S...
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The Girl of Silence
14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her...
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The Mystery of Rampo
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and...
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300 Million
Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about ...
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The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation f...
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The Anthropology of a Fight Scene
A man must overcome many obstacles as he works his way through the dangerous crime world to the leve...
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Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71
The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and wit...
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A Yakuza in Love
When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different ...
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Born to Be Baby
A detective, a mysterious beauty Ekin and other characters appear in the film. It creates a mysterio...
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Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicis...
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Drawing Restraint 9
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in re...
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The Bicycle Thief Was Bad
Steel-worker Saito Tetsuo, driven by an unexplained anxiety, steals bike after bike to move away fro...
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Firefly
A young outlaw racing through the streets of Yokohama. Will the love that slipped through his finger...
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United Red Army
Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to...
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Manji
Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast in...
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Farewell to the Ark
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and ...
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Ring
In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure a...
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Song of Vengeance
Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another....
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Shag
Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ai...
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Nowhere Man
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed b...
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Gone Without Saying Goodbye!
This TV drama special depicts the obsession of a sister and two detectives searching for her missing...
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high...
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Goodbye, Flickmania
Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friends...
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KT
This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politici...
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Fish of the Fire
Hi no Sakana (火の魚, Fish of the Fire) is a Japanese novel by Murō Saisei; it was first published in 1...
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It's Easier Than Kissing
After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father...
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Hangyaku no Tabi
Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inl...
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The New Morning of Billy the Kid
All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-whi...
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Kagerô 2
An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her siste...
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The Heartbreak Yakuza
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engul...
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Ballad of Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos...
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The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escape...
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House of Sleeping Beauties
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and h...
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Step on the Gas!
Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance......
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At Noon
Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his...
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A Pool Without Water
After saving a girl from rape a bored rail worker finds out about a chemical that makes people sleep...
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Did the Red Bird Escape?
A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well-to-do family....
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Sosuke Loses His Lover
Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of...
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Izo
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...
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Melody of Rebellion
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He r...
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Paper Lantern
A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer w...
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Time Limit
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank ro...
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Kanto Drifter
Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of h...
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Azumi
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassi...
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Zatoichi: The Last
A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into ba...
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Ready to Shoot
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho...
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Sukanpin Walk
Yuji decides to run away from home to become an actor. Along the way, he meets Yoshio, an aspiring r...
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You Gotta Chance
The story of Tamikawa, a professionally and artistically burned out singer, who embarks on a search ...
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Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage
After his partner Ahiru is gunned down in the process of arresting criminal Bruce Sawamura, cop Joe ...
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Tekken
A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a box...
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Cabaret
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thrill...
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Nuclear Gypsies
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area w...
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Knockout
A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring....
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Dream Street
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka....
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Billiken
The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. ...
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Tomorrow
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by ...
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Waters
Seven young Tokyoites get scammed into working as hosts for "Dog Days" bar. Will they be able to ove...
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Singapore Sling
Tatsuya is on a honeymoon in Australia. A couple of unfortunate encounters land him in jail, where h...
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Summer of the Lion Kings
Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the...
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Chicken Is Barefoot
A disabled child of separated parents gets caught up in police espionage due to his uncanny ability ...
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Confessions Among Actresses
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is...
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Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
In 1988, Hokkaido's Hokusei Yoichi High School became the first high school in Japan to accept stude...
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Castle of Sand
This drama adaptation follows the original work's historical setting and is told from Yoshimura's pe...
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The Taika Reforms
A drama introduces the well known coup in the 7th Century Japan followed by the Taika reform which m...
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Cabaret
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thrill...
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Disciples of Hippocrates
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, e...
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