Red Beard [videorecording]
2003
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The final collaboration between Akiro Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, 'Red Beard' is set in a rural hospital at the end of the Tokugawa period in the 1860s - a time when Japan was being opened to western influences. Domineering Dr Niide (Mifune), known as 'Red Beard', is responsible for training new doctors, among them the lazy and socially ambitious Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama). However, through a series of lessons in human sufferings, Yasumoto is eventually transformed into a caring doctor.
Main title:
Red Beard [videorecording] / producer, Ryûzô Kikushima; producer, Tomoyuki Tanaka.
Author:
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998, directorSatÕo, Masaru, 1928-1999, musicKayama, Yûzô, actorYamazaki, Tsutomu, actorMifune, ToshirÕo, 1920-1997, actor
Imprint:
BFI, 2003.
Collation:
1 videodisc (172 min.) : b&w.
Notes:
Region 2, 1 disc(s), Interactive menus, Ratio (1:2.35 CinemaScope), Enhanced for WideScreen TV, Languages (Japanese), Subtitles (English), Biographies, Introduction by Alex Cox. Original poster. Production stills.Made in 1965.Based on the Dostoevsky story 'The Insulted and the Injured'.Credits: director, Akira Kurosawa; writer, Akira Kurosawa; writer, Ryûzô Kikushima; writer, Masato Ide; writer, Hideo Oguni; music, Masaru Satô.DVDN.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Toshirô Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa.
Audience:
BBFC code: 15.
System details:
DVD.
Language:
Japanese
BRN:
552676