Red Beard
Akira Kurosawa / JP, 1965 / 182 min.
Seldom-screened Kurosawa film about the struggle between arrogant young doctor Yasumoto and head clinician Dr Kyojio Niide – a socially committed, humanist man of medicine. This was the last time Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa worked together, having previously made fifteen productions together.
Rural Japan, circa 1850. Recently graduated young doctor Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is looking forward to a traineeship at a fancy clinic, but finds himself instead posted to a hospital for the poor. There, Dr Kyojio Niide (Toshiro Mifune) holds sway, a medical man – red beard and all – who is totally committed to his patients and will do whatever it takes to keep the hospital going.
Screening on 35mm (British Film Institute collection)
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Director
Akira Kurosawa
Production year
1965
Country
JP
Original title
Akahige
Length
182 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
NLD or ENG
Format
35mm
Part of
Akira Kurosawa
After an absence of more than 30 years, Eye is bringing the films of one of Japan’s greatest filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa, to the big screen again, some in digitally restored versions. In his films, Kurosawa blends Japanese history and culture with literary and cinematic influences from the West.
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