A young intern at a clinic learns life lessons from a man who believes in personal sacrifice for the common...
A young intern at a clinic learns life lessons from a man who believes in personal sacrifice for the common good. Kurosawa/Mifune classic.
"During the two-year production of this film – filming took longer than any Japanese film up to that time, including Seven Samurai – Kurosawa announced that he "wanted to push the confines of movie-making to their limits." How he attempts this makes Red Beard one of his most challenging films. It's the story of a young man (Yûzô Kayama) who becomes intern to the veteran doctor known as Red Beard (Toshirô Mifune) who runs a public clinic. It's the doctor’s view that personal sacrifice for the common good is what makes a man's life worthwhile; that only by complete dedication to the poor and needy can a doctor find fulfilment." (David Stratton, Sydney Film Festival)
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73 %15 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
95 %8,102 reviewsAudience score rating
"...the film bowls along magnificently in a weird mixture of genuine emotion, absurdity and poetic fantasy."
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Time Out
Time Out"Kurosawa somehow manages to imbue every moment of this three-hour-plus movie with the transcendent vitality and intelligence of a great Victorian novel."
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"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."
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Roger Ebert
Roger EbertRed Beard | Details
Award winner- Winner of the OCIC Award (Kurosawa), the San Giorgio Prize (Kurosawa) and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor (Mifune), 1965 Venice Film Festival
- Rating
- M, Adult themes, Sexual references, Medium level violence
- Runtime
- 185
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Japan
