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A.k.a.
Red Beard
Year
1965
Runtime
185 min.
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Genre
Drama
Rating *
8.3
Votes *
10,633
Checks
2,438
Favs
375
Dislikes
14
Favs/checks
15.4% (1:7)
Favs/dislikes
27:1
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  1. greenhorg's avatar

    greenhorg

    Somehow I can't imagine an Ozu drama where an old country doctor single handedly puts down a rowdy gang of toughs.

    Is there a clause in Toshiro Mifune's contract stipulating that he must kick no less than 15 asses in every picture?
    11 years 9 months ago
  2. K.'s avatar

    K.

    One of Kurosawa's finest films...One of the supreme masterpieces of cinema! Beautiful, profound, and so tremendously human. 6 years 11 months ago
  3. Siskoid's avatar

    Siskoid

    Mifune is riveting in (and as) Red Beard, Kurosawa's epic about country doctors in Feudal Japan, a film that has a pretty straightforward, even predictable, premise - young ambitious doctor is pissed he has to intern in a country hospital, but eventually learns the true meaning of the vocation through his gruff, red-bearded mentor - and seems to take its time about it as various patients tell their stories, etc. But by the second half, Kurosawa's intent becomes clear, as do his reasons for setting it in a historical setting. Feudal medicine is, let's face it, a bit of a horror show, so what the doctors offer is kindness in an unkind world. And that's what Red Beard is really about. Kindness. Showing it, teaching it, and learning it. And the more that theme came to the fore, the more I wept. Well beyond the amazing cinematography, and that badass fight scene, the intense lesson in kindness is what floored me. Destroyed me, even. This may well be the greatest medical drama ever put to film. 3 years 11 months ago
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  1. This movie ranks #15 in IMDb's 1960s Top 50
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  2. This movie ranks #26 in iCheckMovies's 1960s Top 100
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  3. This movie ranks #32 in Total Film's 50 Amazing Films You've Probably Never Seen
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  4. This movie ranks #37 in Kinema Junpo Award - Best Japanese Film
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  5. This movie ranks #97 in iCheckMovies's Most Favorited
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  6. This movie ranks #139 in Kinema Junpo's Top 200 Japanese Films
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  7. This movie ranks #179 in The Criterion Collection
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  8. This movie ranks #375 in Roger Ebert's Great Movies
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  9. This movie ranks #523 in Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time
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  10. This movie ranks #813 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
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