Red Beard (1965)
- Original title
- 赤ひげ
- Directed by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Genre
- drama film, Jidaigeki
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 3h 05m
- Rated
- M
- Rating
- 8.2 of 10 from 411 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A proud young doctor arrives at a rural clinic run by a gruff veteran physician, Red Beard. He resents the assignment but gradually learns to treat the poor and forgotten patients with compassion.
slow-burncontemplativeearnestmelancholichumanisticvisceralgroundedpoignant
What happens
Red Beard (Japanese: 赤ひげ, Hepburn: Akahige) is a 1965 Japanese period drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, in his last collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune. Based on Shūgorō Yamamoto's 1959 short story collection, Akahige Shinryōtan, the film takes place in Koishikawa, a district of Edo, towards the end of the Tokugawa period (i.e. early or mid-19th century), and is about the relationship between a town doctor and his new trainee. Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Humiliated and Insulted provided the source for a subplot about a young girl, Otoyo (Terumi Niki), who is rescued from a brothel. The film looks at the problem of social injustice and explores two of Kurosawa's favorite topics: humanism and existentialism. A few critics have noted the film to be reminiscent in some ways of Ikiru. It is Kurosawa's last black-and-white film. The film was a major box office success in Japan but is known for having caused a rift between Mifune and Kurosawa, with this being the final collaboration between them after working on 16 films together. The film was screened in competition at the 26th Venice International Film Festival. Toshiro Mifune won a Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in the film. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Machibuse (1970)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.