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Red Beard
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. 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… From TMDB
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Red Beard is a 1965 drama film, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune, Yūzō Kayama and Tsutomu Yamazaki.
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60 of 129 · most liked firstMifune ®, Yuzo Kayama, and Kurosawa, on set for “Red Beard” (1965). Kurosawa was so insistent upon realism for the film that an entire town was built, and all the cabinets and drawers in the hopsital were filled with medicine.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday 📽️! A wide range of films for my #LastFourWatched, but it's no surprise that a Kurosawa film is the highlight of the bunch. What have you been watching? Brink of Life (1958) Red Beard (1965) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →Red Beard is Kurosawa's best movie, and the only movie I have cried watching every time I've seen it. #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched
positive · AI labelView post →Last four films watched - The Stranger (2025), Red Beard (❤️ - 1965), Disclosure (1994), Absolute Power (1997) @letterboxd.social #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #films #films2026 ❤️📽️🎬🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →my favorite story about this is kurosawa basically ruining mifune's career for 2 years by contracturally obligating him to grow out his beard for RED BEARD then basically refusing to actually finish the movie (they never worked together again after)
neutral · AI labelView post →Legendary Toshiro Mifune was BOTD in 1920 & died in 1997 at 77. I love him in Kurosawa's comedic jidaigeki film "Sanjuro" (1962). He's also brilliant in "Rashomon" (1950) and everything else by Kurosawa. He made 16 films w/ him but they fell out while making "Red Beard" in 1965
neutral · AI labelView post →To Sleep with Anger, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, and Red Beard on the same day is my vision of heaven
positive · AI labelView post →Gary Couzens has reviewed the new BFI Blu-ray release of RED BEARD, Akira Kurosawa's final film with favourite actor Toshirō Mifune tinyurl.com/5p4ruysn
neutral · AI labelView post →20th Century Women was the biggest surprise for me. It was excellent. Greta Gerwig and Annette Bening were so good. Easter Parade might be one of my favorite musicals ever. And Red Beard is a top 3 Kurosawa film. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
positive · AI labelView post →'The beauty of the film’s sumptuous, high-contrast black and white cinematography is almost hallucinatory' ★★★★★ RED BEARD - Top-tier #Kurosawa melds visual beauty with moral clarity - now on #BFI Blu-ray - review @realjohncarvill.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray...
neutral · AI labelView post →The final collab between Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa. RED BEARD (1965) was also Kurosawa's final black and white film. Preorder the BFI bluray with booklet for May release on #terracottastore shop.terracottadistribution.com/products/red... #akirakurosawa #toshiromifune #bfi #moviecollectors
neutral · AI labelView post →In the cinema for Red Beard - the fifth and final movie I’ve managed to get to in the Kurosawa film festival that was running for the last month and change (and this is the only movie they were screening that I haven’t seen before). It’s been so wonderful.
positive · AI labelView post →1960: Peeping Tom 1961: Night Tide 1962: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1963: Hud 1964: Blood and Black Lace 1965: Red Beard 1966: Seconds 1967: The Big Gundown 1968: The Great Silence...and some zombie movie 1969: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
neutral · AI labelView post →Ten non-horror movies to get to know me: Singles Star Wars I-VI (which is one film) Red Beard The Dambusters 24 Hour Party People Metropolitan What Happened Was ... The Souvenir Avengers: Endgame Disney's Beauty and the Beast
neutral · AI labelView post →A Kurosawa film that doesn't get talked about enough. RED BEARD (1965). An antidote to our times.
positive · AI labelView post →This week marks the 60th anniversary of the Japanese release of Akira Kurosawa's RED BEARD -- his last film with Toshiro Mifune -- so I wrote about it for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social. Not as action-packed as some of their earlier collaborations, but when Mifune hits you, you know you've been hit.
neutral · AI labelView post →Quote post your favorite movie with a humanist theme. “Red Beard” (1965) by Akira Kurosawa
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie years project Year 1965 (88/122) Now Watching 📽️ #9/9 Red Beard dir. Akira Kurosawa rec'd by @chriswordnerd.bsky.social, @kianross.bsky.social, @stevequick.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Came across a video of Ran and God that was such a good movie, I reallt ought to watch the rest of Kurosawa movies. Only seen Ran, Kagemusha and Red Beard. Love all these 3 though.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched Kurosawa’s 1965 film, Red Beard for the first time today on Parker’s recommendation and loved it. About a Japanese doctor named Red Beard and so much more. A masterpiece. Also, yay Hungary! Hopefully we can do the same!
positive · AI labelView post →Final postcards of the day with Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell. 1950's Kim based on Rudyard's Kipling's book, featured Stockwell in the title role with Flynn as Mahbub Ali the Red Beard. It is Stockwell's film with Flynn more of a supporting role. #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →it is Monthly Film Night tonight in my film club and we are watching Red Beard (1965, dir. Kurosawa). I haven't seen this one in about a decade - very excited to revisit it! #filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Kurosawa did five movies in the 1960’s, this one among them, and all with Mifune as the lead. Of course, that working relationship frayed irrevocably around the movie after this, RED BEARD. #SpaceApeCinema
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard Project Dreams - How to Build Mazinger Z's Hangar Boiling Point The Mourning Forest I, Daniel Blake Sound Sleep Hamjinabi Paterson Old and new. Long and short. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →March 2025 Movie Challenge Day 30 - A film with a doctor in it (National Doctor's Day) Red Beard (1965) boxd.it/iYS5 #Letterboxd #MovieChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Altho, I'd like to have seen Kurosawa add a tint of red color to Mifune's beard in one shot to really make him RED Beard, like he did with the pink smoke in High and Low. This is the last Kurosawa-Mifune movie. They had a falling out due to the intense filming schedule. A legend died w/ this film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Story wise the film's OK. It feels like a series of vignettes held together with the character of Dr. Yasumoto. I feel that this would work better as a TV series. There actually were 2 Red Beard TV series before this movie and 5 after it. Still, we're not talking about them so I guess the film wins.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, so many. Battle of Algiers Matango Embrace of the Serpent Memories of Murder Red Beard Punishment Park 3-Iron Stroszek Still Life Pusher 2 Suspiria remake Bringing Out the Dead Eureka Miracles Enemy Noroi Mean Creek Slow West Hunter in the Dark Ronin-gai Jesus' Son Changing Lanes Noah Etc.
neutral · AI labelView post →> what’s your favorite Akira Kurosawa film As a physician, it's gotta be Red Beard.
positive · AI labelView post →📅 | On this day 61 years ago, Akira Kurosawa's "Red Beard" (1965) was released. Kurosawa's last film with Mifune. It was also his last B/W film. #OTD #FilmSky #Kurosawa
neutral · AI labelView post →I have Dodes'ka-den on DVD too. Such a depressing movie. I've not yet seen Drunken Angel or Red Beard...
neutral · AI labelView post →“In Red Beard, I wanted to express the importance of human compassion and the duty we have to care for one another.” “This film is about life and death, love and care, and ultimately about the human condition.” - Akira Kurosawa
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard The Taste of Tea Father The Assassin Nobody 2 Code Unknown Trees Lounge Sex & Fury The Stairway to the Distant Past The Trap The Bothy on the Cold Mor Megane Sex and Specs. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard The Mourning Forest The Taste of Tea Father The Assassin The Zen Diary Nobody 2 National Lampoon's Vacation Highway Patrolman Highest 2 Lowest Murdering the classics? #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This is fantastic and were I in Chicago I’d surely go. I hope we get a restoration of RED BEARD someday. It may be the film that broke up the Kurosawa/Mifune partnership, but it’s a tremendous, empathetic movie.
positive · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard The Mourning Forest Cop Secret The Taste of Tea Requiem Made in Britain Hundreds of Beavers BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues Stranger I will be busy this week. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Kurosawa Month Day 25 🎬 Film: Red Beard (1965) This film reminded me of my blind spots. I never call myself an expert on the Edo period but I always thought I knew a lot about it. But Red Beard reminded me I know nothing about 19th-century Japanese hospitals and medicine, which this film is about.
neutral · AI labelView post →And he likely couldn't work or had to modify his projects around his beard. Toshiro Mifune's last film with Kurosawa was Red Beard. He stopped because he couldnt work while he grew the beard. #hatm
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my favorite scenes in any Kurosawa film is in RED BEARD where kindly, wise doctor Toshiro Mifune suddenly reveals he's also a judo expert when a bunch of Yakuza tries to stop him from helping a sick prostitute. One of my favorite fights of his. #driveinmob
positive · AI labelView post →I think Rashomon is probably the weakest of Kurosawa's films I've seen, everything else is essentially perfect, but despite being the shortest of his films it feels as though it drags the most . It's still an amazing movie, none of them are bad, but not as strong as Red Beard or Seven Samurai
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatch: Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard. Deeply splendid, extremely undervalued film; K circling back to his formative Dickensian and Dostoyevskian streaks but with his mature style; layered like a good novel but also laced with intricate visual invention.
positive · AI labelView post →His early stuff is rough, especially knowing they were made under strict rules imposed by Imperial Japan in WW II, but the moment he dropped No Regrets for our Youth, his first post-war film, that's when you see the glimmer of an auteur. I'll start Ikiru soon and report back after Red Beard 🫡
neutral · AI labelView post →Also arrived recently which came from the Terracotta Store, we have the 88 Films Blu-ray release for Chang Cheh's 1973 film Heroes Two from the Shaw Brothers production, and the BFI Blu-ray release for Akira Kurosawa's 1965 film Red Beard.
neutral · AI labelView post →Personally I’m skipping Red Beard unless they’re like “I am passionately curious about this movie and would like your company when I see it,” anything for a pal, but I was unable to get all the way through that one.
negative · AI labelView post →HIGH AND LOW and RED BEARD. Spanning epic samurai cinema, Shakespearean tragedy, modern crime and deeply human drama, these films represent the full creative range of a master director at the height of his powers. Each film stands as a cornerstone of world cinema and a vital chapter in
neutral · AI labelView post →In my ongoing "I understand the zeitgeist" series, I wrote 1,000 words about Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard. I will say you can see the DNA of The Pitt in this film, insofar that it depicts dogged healthcare professionals who are often more like social workers and clergy, rather than care providers.
positive · AI labelView post →Forever grateful that Red Beard was my first Kurosawa film
positive · AI labelView post →A defining moment of trust in Kurosawa Akira's "Red Beard" (1965). This movie inspired me during my medical training, it inspired one of my novels and it still is an inspiration.
positive · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard The Taste of Tea The Assassin Nobody 2 Rouge Hara Kiri Howl's Moving Castle Restaurant from the Sky Gohatto Amour Bento Harassment Death by Hanging Christmassy. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard The Taste of Tea Father The Assassin Nobody 2 Code Unknown Trees Lounge Sex & Fury Takano Tofu Mottainai Kitchen Have a Song on Your Lips The Most Terrible Time in My Life The Stairway to the Distant Past The Trap Week off - failure due. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard The Mourning Forest The Taste of Tea Father The Assassin Nobody 2 National Lampoon's Vacation A Confucian Confusion Come Back Anytime Funny Games Code Unknown I predict another busy week. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →After a hiatus, I have resumed watching Kurosawa's filmography, now at 21 seen. After my next one, I get to watch his final film with Toshiro Mifune, Red Beard, which I'm very excited for, and then after Red Beard, I'm out of his black and white era and on to color films, which I'm very excited for
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard The Mourning Forest The Taste of Tea Father The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island Ballard of Wallis Island The Genealogy of Sake A Summer at Grandpa's The Assassin Smurfs Ran The Conversation Let's do this! #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard The Mourning Forest Cop Secret The Taste of Tea Made in Britain Stranger Nobody Knows A Handful of Salt Cloud I will probably be busy again this week. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard The Mourning Forest Cop Secret The Taste of Tea Requiem Made in Britain Hundreds of Beavers Nabbie's Love Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet I'll bloody watch those bloody beavers this bloody week. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard The Mourning Forest Cop Secret The Taste of Tea Hideko the Bus Conductor Crime Hunter - Bullets of Rage Requiem Duel Made in Britain I have a desire to watch an American road movie, but I'm really not sure which... #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard Project Dreams - How to Build Mazinger Z's Hangar Kimba the White Lion Hundreds of Beavers Happy-go-Lucky Lost in Translation Boiling Point The Mourning Forest A Minecraft Movie Might give it a go this week...Some things to review. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard The Naked Gun 2 1/2 Project Dreams - How to Build Mazinger Z's Hangar Kimba the White Lion Hundreds of Beavers Being more realistic. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Red Beard Samsara The Naked Gun 2 1/2 Mermaid Legend Scent of a Spell Rampo Noir Autumn Almanac I have the week off, so no excuses...like being at home against 10-man Ipswich...
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's #film watching intentions... Vital Floating Clouds Key of Life Ocean Waves Red Beard The Foul King The Chaser Beasts Clawing at Straws
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