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.
Length 185 minutes
Toshirō Mifune | Yûzô Kayama | Tsutomu Yamazaki | Reiko Dan | Miyuki Kuwano | Kyôko Kagawa | Tatsuyoshi Ehara | Terumi Niki | Akemi Negishi | Yoshitaka Zushi | Yoshio Tsuchiya | Eijirô Tôno | Takashi Shimura | Chishū Ryū | Haruko Sugimura | Kinuyo Tanaka | Eijirô Yanagi | Kôji Mitsui | Kô Nishimura | Nobuo Chiba | Kamatari Fujiwara | Ken Mitsuda | Yôko Fujiyama | Yôko Naitô | Reiko Nanao | Imari Tsuji | Akiko Nomura | Sue Mitobe | Kin Sugai | Michiko Araki | Bokuzen Hidari | Atsushi Watanabe | Yasuzô Ogawa | Yutaka Sada | Ikio Sawamura | Noriko Honma | Miyoko Nakamura | Akiko Kazami | Chisato Aoki | Kyoko Kurisu | Yukiko Yanagishita | Toshiko Fukai | Keiko Tomita | Shôji Ôki | Shôichi Hirose | Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi | Masanobu Ôkubo | Fujio Tokita | Yasuo Araki | Hiroshi Tanaka | Shin Ibuki | Kanzô Uni | Hiroto Kimura | Shu Komoro | Ryû Kuze | Susumu Ishikawa
Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
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03/23/2025 | TV | DVD | Owned | 8.5 stars |
09/24/2003 | TV | DVD | Library | 8 stars |
(Average) 8.25 stars |
Another Very Good Revisit and long overdue. Also a rock solid Sunday afternoon viewing… bc it takes the entire afternoon at 3+ hours. I totally believed this was a color film but it was Kurosawa’s last b&w film and last collaboration with Mifune.
If this were made today it would developed as a six episode series. It’d work, too, with the main premise and the subplots. Cool that wasn’t an option for Kurosawa and he instead just took 2 years to make this movie.
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