Red Beard
1965 · Movie · 180 min. · Japan
In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the arrogant and proud just-graduated Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is forced to work in the Koshikawa Clinic, a non-profit health facility ruled by Dr. Kyojio Niide (Toshirô Mifune), a.k.a. "Red Beard". "Red Beard" is a good, sentimental, but also very firm, strong and fair man. While in the clinic, Dr. Yasumoto becomes responsible for healing the hurt teenager Otoyo (Terumi Niki), and he learns a lesson of humanity, becoming a better man.
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Kyôko Kagawa · Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Reiko Dan · Kamatari Fujiwara · Akemi Negishi · Eijirô Tono · Takashi Shimura · Miyuki Kuwano · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Yoshitaka Zushi · Terumi Niki · Chishu Ryu · Haruko Sugimura · Kinuyo Tanaka · Eijirô Yanagi · Koji Mitsui
Soundtrack Masaru Satô
Screenplay Akira Kurosawa · Hideo Oguni · Ryuzo Kikushima · Masato Ide · Shugoro Yamamoto
Cinematography Asakazu Nakai · Takao Saito
Original title Akahige
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