A crippled hand, a mother's guilt, and the man who hunted humanity's deadliest diseases.
Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent that cause syphilis, and for his relentless search for a cure to yellow fever. As a toddler, his mother's neglect had caused an accident to his left hand, fusing together all the fingers in a bizarre twist of fate. Naturally extremely remorseful for being the cause of her son's handicap, she does everything she could to ensure that he gets to lead a normal life, despite having to fend off bullies and unfair prejudices.
Acting
Yoshiko Mita's guilt-ridden mother will destroy you.
Production
Taisho-period detail that screams 'we spent money on this'.
Direction
Koyama frames suffering like it's going out of style.
Director
Seijiro Koyama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hiroshi Mikami was 28 playing Hideyo from youth to death; the makeup aging is... a choice.
Noguchi remains on the ¥1000 bill, though his colonial-era human experiments in Ghana are increasingly contested in Japan.
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