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Red Beard
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Not Rated
1966
3h 5m
Drama
8.3
73%
94%
8.1
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In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
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Cast of Red Beard
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
Kō Nishimura
Chief retainer
Nobuo Chiba
Matsudaira
Red Beard Ratings & Reviews
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Sean Axmaker
The final collaboration between director Akira Kurosawa and Japanese icon Toshiro Mifune is one of Kurosawa's most ambitious, personal, and heartfelt films.
CBR
Howard Waldstein
What Red Beard lacks in terms of scope, and the more familiar aspects of an Akira Kurosawa film, it makes up for in grace, dignity, and emotional impact.
Esquire Magazine
Dwight MacDonald
Cinema erupts a couple of times in those first two hours, but for the most part we are treated to lengthy scenes in which the characters talk lengthily to each other while the camera peers up into their faces like a faithful dog.
Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News
Jim Henry
Every scene in this exciting film is tense, deep in focus, with long impressive cuts, ranging from five to eight minutes, in which the actors' potentials are exhibited to the fullest extent through the indomitable guidance of director Kurosawa.
The New Yorker
Michael Sragow
Kurosawa somehow manages to imbue every moment of this three-hour-plus movie with the transcendent vitality and intelligence of a great Victorian novel.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A banal, discursive and overlong Dr. Kildare-like soap opera, that's no better than General Hospital.
Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
Something for everyone. A masterpiece, and with Kurosawa that's really saying something.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard is assembled with the complexity and depth of a good 19th-century novel, and it is a pleasure, in a time of stylishly fragmented films, to watch a director taking the time to fully develop his characters.
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
What saves the Criterion DVD is the commentary by film historian Stephen Prince
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
A moving illustration that hope and generosity, even in small amounts, will always persevere and make a difference.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
Many directors still have never created one film equal to Red Beard, which only pales when compared to Kurosawa's greatest films
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
A major miss... a protracted retelling of General Hospital in 19th century Japan.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
A mature work that merits the term most apply to it: Dostoyevskian.
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