赤ひげ Red Beard
Directed by	Akira Kurosawa
Produced by	Ryuzo Kikushima Tomoyuki Tanaka
Written by	Masato Ide Ryuzo Kikushima Akira Kurosawa Hideo Oguni
Starring	Toshirô Mifune Yuzo Kayama
Release date(s)	3 April 1965 19 January 1966
Running time	185 min.
Language	Japanese
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Red Beard (Japanese: 赤ひげ, Akahige) is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa about the relationship between a village doctor and his new trainee. It is an adaptation of a novel by Shugoro Yamamoto. Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Insulted and the Injured provided the source for a subplot about a young girl, Otoyo (Terumi Niki), who is rescued from a brothel.^{[citation needed]} Kurosawa also draws upon Dostoevsky for his film The Idiot. Red Beard looks at the problem of social injustice and explores two of Kurosawa's favourite topics: existential humanism and existentialism.^{[citation needed]} Image File history File links Kurobarberousse. ... Akira Kurosawa , 23 March 1910—6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. ... Tomoyuki Tanaka may refer to: Tomoyuki Tanaka is the name of the Japanese film producer responsible for the Godzilla movies Tomoyuki Tanaka is the name of the Japanese musician commonly known as Fantastic Plastic Machine This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same... Akira Kurosawa , 23 March 1910—6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. ... Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo Toshiro Mifune (三船 敏郎 Mifune Toshirō) (April 1, 1920 - December 24, 1997) was a charismatic Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. ... YÅ«zo Kayama, a Japanese popular musician and film star was born in 1937, the son of one of one of Japans biggest male stars of the 1930s, Ken Uehara The handsome and likable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japans biggest male stars of the 1960s. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan_(bordered). ... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Red Beard may refer to Red Beard (nuclear weapon) Red Beard, a Japanese movie See also Barbarossa This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Japanese cinema (映画; Eiga) has a history in Japan that spans more than 100 years. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Akira Kurosawa , 23 March 1910—6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. ... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, IPA: , sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky  ) (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of the greatest Russian writers as well as one of the greatest writers internationally. ... The Insulted and Humiliated (also known as The Insulted and the Injured) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1861, is a book about the huge contradictions present in life. ... Terumi Niki , born 11 May 1949) is a Japanese actress. ... The Idiot ) is a 1951 Japanese film by director Akira Kurosawa. ... Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of material wealth in a society. ... Humanism[1] is a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appeal to universal human qualities—particularly rationalism. ... Existentialism is a philosophical movement in which individual human beings are understood as having full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own lives. ...

Plot

The film takes place in Edo (the former name of the city of Tokyo), in the 19th century. Young Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is the film's protagonist. Trained in Dutch medical schools, the arrogant Yasumoto aspires to the status of personal physician of the Shogunate. For Yasumoto's post-graduate medical training, he has been assigned to a rural clinic under the guidance of Akahige ("Red Beard"), Dr. Kyojio Niide (played by Toshiro Mifune). Dr. Niide may seem like a tyrannical task master, but in reality he is a compassionate clinic director. Initially, Yasumoto is livid at his posting, believing that he has little to gain from working under Akahige. After falling ill, Yasumoto is nursed to health by the care and affection of a 12 year old girl who was saved from a brothel. Edo (Japanese: , literally: bay-door, estuary, pronounced //), once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... YÅ«zo Kayama, a Japanese popular musician and film star was born in 1937, the son of one of one of Japans biggest male stars of the 1930s, Ken Uehara The handsome and likable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japans biggest male stars of the 1960s. ... This page is about the Japanese ruler and military rank. ... Toshiro Mifune in the film Drunken Angel. ...

Dr. Yasumoto feels that Dr. Niide is only interested in his medical notes and soon rebels against the clinic director. He refuses to wear his uniform, disdains the food and spartan environment, and enters the forbidden garden where he meets "The Mantis" (Kyoko Kagawa), a mysterious patient that only Dr. Niide can treat. Kyōko Kagawa (born 5 December 1931) is a Japanese actress who has appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawas The Lower Depths and Madadayo, Yasujiro Ozus Tokyo Story, and Ishirō Hondas Mothra. ...

Through his observations of Dr. Niide's compassion and a series of destitute patients, Dr. Yasumoto learns what being a doctor really means. The lives of patients are more important than wealth or status. Their suffering can be ameliorated with compassion and conscientious care.

Toshiro Mifune as Akahige.

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Production

Red Beard is 185 minutes long and was shot at an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. It was Kurosawa's first film to make use of a magnetic 4-track stereo soundtrack.^{[citation needed]} The aspect ratio of an image is its displayed width divided by its height (usually expressed as x:y or x×y, with the joining colon or multiplication symbol articulated as the preposition by or sometimes to). For instance, the aspect ratio of a traditional television screen is 4:3... This article is about the spacecraft and the mission. ...

Principal photography took two years. The set was intended to be historicaly accurate: the crew went as far as to use the right kind of aged wood that would have been used in the region at the time the film is set, at Kurosawa's request.^{[citation needed]}

As a Kurosawa film

Red Beard is the last of numerous films in which Kurosawa worked with actor Toshiro Mifune. It is also Kurosawa's last black-and-white film. According to the DVD commentary by film scholar Stephen Prince, this is also the only Kurosawa film to feature nudity (in a scene where doctors operate on a woman without the use of anesthetics). Toshiro Mifune in the film Drunken Angel. ... Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ...

Cast

• Toshiro Mifune - Dr. Kyojio Niide, Akahige ("Red Beard")
• Yuzo Kayama - Dr. Noboru Yasumoto
• Kyoko Kagawa - "The Mantis" or "Madwoman"
• Terumi Niki - Otoyo

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See also

• Ikiru
• Dersu Uzala

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External links

• Red Beard (Akahige)
• Red Beard at the Internet Movie Database

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Japanese Cinema
Films directed by Akira Kurosawa
1940s	Sanshiro Sugata | The Most Beautiful | Sanshiro Sugata Part II | The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail | Those Who Make Tomorrow | No Regrets for Our Youth | One Wonderful Sunday | Drunken Angel | The Quiet Duel | Stray Dog
1950s	Scandal | Rashomon | The Idiot | Ikiru | Seven Samurai | I Live in Fear | Throne of Blood | The Lower Depths | The Hidden Fortress
1960s	The Bad Sleep Well | Yojimbo | Sanjuro | High and Low | Red Beard
1970s	Dodesukaden | Dersu Uzala
1980s	Kagemusha | Ran
1990s	Dreams | Rhapsody in August | Madadayo