Doctor Sanada is an alcoholic and always drinks his own alcohol that is supposed to be used for his practice. This causes him to lose reputation in the local community. However, Sanada's awareness of his weaknesses makes him sympathetic when he sees his own flaws reflected in others, like Matsunaga. So he tries to help them. Sanada recognizes the inherent conflicts in his own career, when he said this to nurse Miyo, "It's silly to be a doctor, anyway. Doctors need people who are ill, and yet they try to cure them." But he still does it nonetheless. For Matsunaga, he shows himself to be sufficiently reflective to be able to recognize rational recommendations from Sanada. But his decotion to his maintaining face in the local community is ruinous, and this is a key theme of the film. Doctor Sanada's assistant, Miyo, used to be the mistress of another gangster, Okada, who is about to be released from
Doctor Sanada is an alcoholic and always drinks his own alcohol that is supposed to be used for his practice. This causes him to lose reputation in the local community. However, Sanada's awareness of his weaknesses makes him sympathetic when he sees his own flaws reflected in others, like Matsunaga. So he tries to help them. Sanada recognizes the inherent conflicts in his own career, when he said this to nurse Miyo, "It's silly to be a doctor, anyway. Doctors need people who are ill, and yet they try to cure them." But he still does it nonetheless. For Matsunaga, he shows himself to be sufficiently reflective to be able to recognize rational recommendations from Sanada. But his decotion to his maintaining face in the local community is ruinous, and this is a key theme of the film. Doctor Sanada's assistant, Miyo, used to be the mistress of another gangster, Okada, who is about to be released from