Red Beard
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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60 of 95 · 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.
unlabelledView 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)
unlabelledView post →Red Beard is Kurosawa's best movie, and the only movie I have cried watching every time I've seen it. #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched
unlabelledView post →Last four films watched - The Stranger (2025), Red Beard (❤️ - 1965), Disclosure (1994), Absolute Power (1997) @letterboxd.social #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #films #films2026 ❤️📽️🎬🎥
unlabelledView 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)
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →To Sleep with Anger, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, and Red Beard on the same day is my vision of heaven
unlabelledView post →Forsinka #mandagsfilmen Red Beard (1965), av Kurosawa. Her er det leger og pasienter som gjelder, ingen sverd og kamp. Det visuelle var ufatteleg bra. Unik film. 5/5 + ❤️ (max, us) #filmskya
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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...
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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?
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →A Kurosawa film that doesn't get talked about enough. RED BEARD (1965). An antidote to our times.
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView post →Quote post your favorite movie with a humanist theme. “Red Beard” (1965) by Akira Kurosawa
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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!
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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 📽️
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView post →“Red Beard” (1965) by Akira Kurosawa and Tishiro Mifune’s last film with Kurosawa.
unlabelledView post →> what’s your favorite Akira Kurosawa film As a physician, it's gotta be Red Beard.
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →I have Dodes'ka-den on DVD too. Such a depressing movie. I've not yet seen Drunken Angel or Red Beard...
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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 🫡
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView post →Forever grateful that Red Beard was my first Kurosawa film
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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...
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →I saw Kurosawa's Red Beard once at a film festival like 15 years ago and this exact shot still haunts me www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-LU...
unlabelledView post →Apologies for not updating as much but Japan On Film Season 10 is complete! We covered Princess Mononoke, Sukiyaki Western Django, A Colt is My Passport, Cure, Getting Any?, 2LDK, Red Beard, Kwaidan, and Nightmare Detective. All available at japanonfilm.com!
unlabelledView post →82. Red Beard Good contender for favorite Kurosawa movie. It shows a lot of despair but a tender humanity and solidarity to it.
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