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Red Beard

Original title: 赤ひげ

What is the key to life - power, prestige or peace?

  • Movie
  • 1965
  • R
  • 3h 5m

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

8.2

TMDB audience rating
8.2 out of 10 from 434 votes

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Overview

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

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Cast and crew

  • Toshirō Mifune

    Toshirō MifuneDr. Kyojio Niide ("Red Beard")

  • Yūzō Kayama

    Yūzō KayamaDr. Noboru Yasumoto

  • Tsutomu Yamazaki

    Tsutomu YamazakiSahachi

  • Reiko Dan

    Reiko DanOsugi

  • Miyuki Kuwano

    Miyuki KuwanoOnaka

  • Kyōko Kagawa

    Kyōko KagawaMadwoman ("The Mantis")

  • Tatsuyoshi Ehara

    Tatsuyoshi EharaGenzô Tsugawa

  • Terumi Niki

    Terumi NikiOtoyo

  • Akemi Negishi

    Akemi NegishiOkuni

  • Yoshitaka Zushi

    Yoshitaka ZushiChobo

  • Yoshio Tsuchiya

    Yoshio TsuchiyaDr. Handayû Mori

  • Eijirō Tōno

    Eijirō TōnoGoheiji

  • Takashi Shimura

    Takashi ShimuraTokubei Izumiya

  • Chishū Ryū

    Chishū RyūMr. Yasumoto

  • Haruko Sugimura

    Haruko SugimuraKin, the madam

  • Kinuyo Tanaka

    Kinuyo TanakaMadame Yasumoto

  • Eijirō Yanagi

    Eijirō YanagiMadwoman's father

  • Kōji Mitsui

    Kōji MitsuiHeikichi

Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Shūgorō Yamamoto, Ryuzo Kikushima and Akira Kurosawa
Music
Masaru Satō
Cinematography
Asakazu Nakai and Takao Saitō