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Director:
Writers:
Masato Ide (screenplay) &
Hideo Oguni (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
19 December 1968 (USA) more
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Plot:
In a charity hospital, a hard-bitten but honorable older doctor, Dr. Niide, takes a young intern under... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 9 wins & 1 nomination more
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Cast

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Toshirô Mifune ... Dr. Kyojô Niide
Yûzô Kayama ... Dr. Noboru Yasumoto
Tsutomu Yamazaki ... Sahachi
Reiko Dan ... Osugi
Miyuki Kuwano ... Onaka
Kyôko Kagawa ... Madwoman
Tatsuyoshi Ehara ... Genzô Tsugawa
Terumi Niki ... Otoyo
Akemi Negishi ... Okuni, the mistress
Yoshitaka Zushi ... Chôji
Yoshio Tsuchiya ... Dr. Handayû Mori
Eijirô Tôno ... Goheiji
Takashi Shimura ... Tokubei Izumiya
Chishû Ryû ... Mr. Yasumoto
Haruko Sugimura ... Kin, the madam
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Red Beard (International: English title) (literal title)
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Runtime:
185 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Sweden:15 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Singapore:PG | UK:15 (re-rating) (2002) | UK:X (original rating)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
According to the DVD commentary by film scholar Stephen Prince, this is the only Akira Kurosawa film to feature nudity. more
Goofs:
Continuity: At the brothel where young Otoyo is being rescued: when Red Beard (Toshiro Mifune) prepares to step out of the brothel opening to confront the thugs gathered outside, from the inside camera view, right before he steps through the door flap, there are a couple of thugs standing just right outside the opening. But from the outside shot, which shows Red Beard stepping out, the nearby thugs have changed position, and are now standing much farther away from the opening. more
Quotes:
Dr. Noboru Yasumoto: It smells like rotten fruit.
Genzo Tsugawa: It's the smell of the poor.
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20 out of 23 people found the following review useful.
The end of an era, 30 October 2005
10/10
Author: Michael Zeigermann from London, UK

Red Beard marked the end of an era for Kurosawa. It was the last of his period costume dramas (excluding Ran and Kagemusha, though these were more of a glorious revisit to his 'old' style anyhow), the last film he shot in black and white, and the last film he ever made with Toshiru Mifune, thus ending what is, to me at least, the finest director-actor pairing in the history of cinema. Perhaps it is for these reasons that I look on this film with so much fondness, and it remains one of my favourite Kurosawa films (alongside Ran and Rashomon). That aside, it is also filled with warmth and sincerity, but then that's to be expected from the man I consider to be the greatest director of all time. Highly recommended.

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