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Red Beard(赤ひげ)

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Japan · 1965
3h 5m
Director Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshirō Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan
Genre Drama

Aspiring to be a personal physician to a wealthy family, Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. He introduces Yasumoto to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

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The New York Times by

Red Beard is well meant and well made, no question about it. But it unfolds familiarly and, at 185 minutes, practically forever.

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ReelViews by James Berardinelli

As an elegy to a perfect fusion of directorial mastery and an actor’s indomitable screen presence, it’s hard to imagine something more memorable and affecting than Red Beard.

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The New Yorker by Michael Sragow

In Kurosawa’s dynamic yet intimate wide-screen filmmaking, practicality and empathy merge with psychoanalysis and even bits of magic; the young doctor’s near-fatal close encounter with a female serial killer, and a virtuous man’s deathbed confession of a horrifying marital tragedy, are among the sequences building to a genuinely inspirational conclusion.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

I believe this film should be seen by every medical student. Like Kurosawa's masterpiece, "Ikiru" (1952), it fearlessly regards the meanings of life, and death.

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