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Red Beard

Original title: 赤ひげ

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

1965 · R · 3h 5m

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

8.2

TMDB audience score
434 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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

  • Toshirō Mifune
    Dr. Kyojio Niide ("Red Beard")

  • Yūzō Kayama
    Dr. Noboru Yasumoto

  • Tsutomu Yamazaki
    Sahachi

  • Reiko Dan
    Osugi

  • Miyuki Kuwano
    Onaka

  • Kyōko Kagawa
    Madwoman ("The Mantis")

  • Tatsuyoshi Ehara
    Genzô Tsugawa

  • Terumi Niki
    Otoyo

  • Akemi Negishi
    Okuni

  • Yoshitaka Zushi
    Chobo

  • Yoshio Tsuchiya
    Dr. Handayû Mori

  • Eijirō Tōno
    Goheiji

  • Takashi Shimura
    Tokubei Izumiya

  • Chishū Ryū
    Mr. Yasumoto

  • Haruko Sugimura
    Kin, the madam

  • Kinuyo Tanaka
    Madame Yasumoto

  • Eijirō Yanagi
    Madwoman's father

  • Kōji Mitsui
    Heikichi