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Plot: In a charity hospital, a hard-bitten but honorable older doctor, Dr. Niide, takes a young intern under his guidance through the course of a number of difficult cases.
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MCT:June 22, 2008
Good performances and character development but it feels drawn out in spots and could be condensed a little.
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MCT:May 3, 2008AKAHIGE (1965)
directed by Akira Kurosawa
starring Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu YamazakiRed Beard is definately one of Akira Kurosawa's best film. As usual, it buils itself very slowly and you have to be patient to explore the themes cause it never gets exciting but it does get poignant many times.This is his final collaboration with the great Toshiro Mifune. It tells the story of a very generous doctor who takes a younger one under his wing and we slowly witness what his job is and it aint always easy. We witness the horror caused by poverty and criminals.
Red Beard is an extremely committed film to its social comments, showing with careful details everything it wants to criticize cause that is actaully Kurosawa's trademark. All his films have social comments and here it is no exception.
This is a film that is very inspiring and touching, its heartbreaking and definately well-made. Good performanes by the leads and as usual, Kurosawa is in total control of his direction.
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MCT:April 3, 2008
An ambitious and arrogant young intern finds himself in a rural clinic for the poor against his wishes, but soon finds there is more to life than wealth and status under the tutelage of a severe but kind-hearted doctor. Red Beard is almost Dickensian. in it's melding of period drama and social commentary, all told with a decidedly left wing slant. The Siu clinic is a fledgling "welfare state", where treatment is free to the needy, and Kurosawa takes great pains to illustrate that a man's worth is not the sum of his material possessions. The film is structured into a series of short stories centering around different patients, each with a tragic event in their past. The finest example is the final story of Ting, a young girl suffering abuse at the hands of a brothel's madam who slowly learns that there are good people in the world, after being rescued in a great scene in which Red Beard ably hands out the injuries he later heals! It's VERY long and rather short on action compared to his samurai films, but it's also a genuinely touching, heartwarming and good natured tale that is Kurosawa at his most human.
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MCT:January 29, 2008To me, this is Kurosawa at his best. His humanism shines out in this film that follows the transformation of an arrogant young medicine graduate into a compassionate healer.
Picture perfect compositions and brilliant staging and camera work makes this film a finely crafted masterpiece. Especially noteworthy is the long-take scene of the encounter between the Mantis and Yasumoto. -
MCT:October 11, 2007
Kurosawa at his best. Mifune single handedly takes on a gang of samurai by breaking their arms and then fixes them all up because that's just the ruff and gruff type of doctor that he is.
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MCT:August 28, 2007
Dr. Handayu Mori: The pain and loneliness of death frighten me. But Dr. Niide looks at it differently. He looks into their hearts as well as their bodies.
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MCT:August 16, 2007
Kurosawa's most honourable film. Beautiful storytelling with well-rounded characters. This is a movie about being a decent human being. Classic.
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MCT:July 22, 2007
one day i'll make this movie again.......simply super......gr8 direction..this is my all time hit movie
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MCT:May 8, 2007
The effect and emotion this film extracts from viewers is indescribable. The film is a study of relationships and the way in which kindness and love can overcome all personal obstacles. A heart-breaking narrative at times, it draws character symapthy at its highest level. Kurosawa constructs a film where the underlying narrative is basic and ultimately slow-moving (duration of the film is over 3 hours long). What Kurosawa employs is various scenarios and sub-plots where human nature and pchyche are brought into question. Each scenario demonstrates a different but applicable lesson. One sub-plot that particularly stood out for me was the relationship shared between reformed doctor Yasumuto and his first patient, a young and mis-treated girl who was collected by himself and Dr. Niide (articulated by the great Mifune) from a brothel. The majority of the initial stages of this relationship were filmed in a single shot within the confides of Yasumuto's room. At first the young girl seems unbreakable, Yasumuto cannot gain her trust in order to medicate her. She continues to swipe the spoons of medicine and the bowls of water. Her first words to Yasumuto are ones that seem most provoking after Dr Niide patiently watched the young girl swipe spoon after spoon of medicine from his hands, she said: 'Why didn't he hit me?'
Not only does the film shed light onto provoking themes and ideologies that seem to distant in popular contemporary films, like all Kurosawa films, Red Beard is a perfect cinematic achievement. Akira proved with this and a handful of his other films, that he can quite competently direct a drama and a non-popular genre film as well as the genre he made famous; action films. If there is one word that this film advocates, it's gratitude (Don't worry, if the absense of action seems much to foreign for a Kurosawa film, which it shouldn't, there is one fight scene. Ironic, considering it is quite brutal). -
MCT:April 21, 2007
a supreme final pairing between the actor and the director and the final closure for kurosawa's first of two legacies, a medical drama focused on the humanism behind the healing, mifune's work is at his prime
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MCT:April 1, 2007
A really excellent look at the morals and principles of doctors. The oath to people goes further than the patch and go. To truely help a patient. You help them with their physical problems as well as their personal problems. If a person doesn't like themselves, there is really no point in addressing their medical needs. Sometimes a victim is only sick because no one has taken the time to care and see what is really wrong. It is a lifetime of hard work to be a doctor and it is even more work to be a great man. Akira Kurosawa has done a fantastic job bringing us the determinations of both kinds of doctors. Those who do it for money and fame, and those who dedicate themselves to truely healing people. Toshiro Mifune does a wonderful job portraying a strong and wise man as well as a smart and great doctor. Sometimes the best way to cure someoneis to let them heal us.
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MCT:March 23, 2007
This film pushes all my buttons. The storytelling, the pace, the cinematography, and the acting. The great Toshiro Mifune doing what he does best. Grab that bottle of wine and watch it now!
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MCT:February 20, 2007
I do have to say this was a hard movie to watch, it was very depressing at times. But i can't say enough about the moive itts self other the brilliant. To watch this movie make sure you have alot of time and have no problem reading subtitles and it being very slow. But the poetic words just draw you in. Fantastic!
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MCT:February 4, 2007
"hes a great doctor. no, hes a great man." that quote from this film really wraps it up. this movie is flawless, perfect in every way. easily kurosawas best directing job, and mifunes acting performance is one of the greatest in film history. every line of diologue, every camera shot, everything was perfect. one of the 10 greatest films i have ever seen, absolutely brilliant in every way. the young doctor, the little boy towards the end, all of the acting was great and this story is stunning and beautiful. dont believe that kurosawa can only make samurai films, this one is even better than seven samurai.
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MCT:February 3, 2007
Great movie, very fine portrait of human integrity, moral and dedication. To me it shows how greatness can be the ultimate inspiration source.
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MCT:December 8, 2006
This movie has it all; drama, action, comedy, and uncanny performaces. One of Kurosawa's best. Want to know were Kill Bill's Pai Mei is derivative of?
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MCT:December 1, 2006
A tremendous film by the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. He binds together a highly engaging and wonderful set of characters and their stories based in Feudal Japan. This is simply an impeccable film, it is beautifully made and heart wrenching at times, and the acting is fabulous. An essential film.
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MCT:August 30, 2006
A very beautiful film, with a great story. The only flaw is that it gets too involved in outside stories at times. But i still thoroughly enjoyed it.
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MCT:April 5, 2006
another great morality tale from the master kurosawa, this gritty story is about humanity, and follows a newly qualified doctor, and a hardened veteran. it is engrossing watching, and red beard is a badass, taking out about 9 guys in 1 point, but it's really about how the characters change fom a firm standpoint at the beginning of the film, to where they end up, and the journey they take to get there. excellent. RECOMMENDED
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