Red Beard is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa about the relationship between a town doctor and his new trainee. The film was based on Shūgorō Yamamoto's short story collection, Akahige shinryotan . Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Insulted and the Injured provided the source for a subplot about a young girl, Otoyo , who is rescued from a brothel. Red Beard looks at the problem of social injustice and explores two of Kurosawa's favourite topics: humanism and existentialism. The film takes place in Koishikawa, a district of Edo , in the 19th century. Young Dr. Noboru... Yasumoto is the film's protagonist. Trained in a Dutch medical school in Nagasaki, the arrogant Yasumoto aspires to the status of personal physician of the Shogunate, a position currently held by a close relative; his father is already a well-established, highly competent physician. Yasumoto believes that he should progress through the safe, and well-protected, army structure of medical education.
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| Release date: | April 1965 |
| Directed by: | Akira Kurosawa |
| Runtime: | 185 Minutes |
| Producer: | Ryuzo Kikushima, Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Music by: | Masaru Satoh |
| Cinematography: | Asakazu Nakai |
| Screenplay by: | Masato Ide, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni |