Red Beard

Name: Red Beard
Genre: Drama
Released: December 19, 1968
Duration: 185 min
Rating: 90
Cast: Akemi Negishi, Kyôko Kagawa, Miyuki Kuwano, Reiko Dan, Tatsuyoshi Ehara

1968

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Movie Details & Credits

Toho Company | Release Date: December 19, 1968 | Not Rated

Starring: Akemi Negishi, Kyôko Kagawa, Miyuki Kuwano, Reiko Dan, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Terumi Niki, Toshirô Mifune, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yoshitaka Zushi, Yûzô Kayama

Summary: In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 185 min

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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. Read full review

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Dan Jardine

The best of Kurosawa’s films are a challenge to look into our greatest fears and at our most terrible afflictions, whether personal or systemic, without turning away. Arguably the best Kurosawa film, Red Beard does not turn away. Read full review

Steve Daly

Remember when ”ER” delivered keen social critiques wrapped in satisfying drama? If you miss that medicine, you need a dose of director Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard, a three-hour soap opera about a 19th-century Japanese clinic. Read full review

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It's hokum lifted to the highest denominator, the banal made into near art by great skill and craftsmanship by the Japanese master. Read full review

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. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Mifune is as great here as he ever has been. Read full review

Howard Thompson

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

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