About the Event
Director:
Akira Kurosawa
Actors:
Toshiro Mifune
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto (Yûzô Kayama) is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard (Toshirô Mifune). Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a sex worker (Terumi Niki) rescued from a local brothel.
"Kurosawa somehow manages to imbue every moment of this three-hour-plus movie with the transcendent vitality and intelligence of a great Victorian novel." - New Yorker
"A mature work that merits the term most apply to it: Dostoyevskian." - Chicago Reader