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RED BEARD
赤ひげ
Japan, 1965
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshirō Mifune, Yūzō Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan
Approx. 185 min. 4K DCP.
In a 19th-century slum clinic for the poor, a gruff, heavily bearded Dr. Mifune (Best Actor, Venice) straightens out an arrogant young intern, and through his hardboiled warmth and stern compassion creates, instead of the usual “circle of evil,” a circle of good. Mifune’s last film for Kurosawa.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Kurosawa somehow manages to imbue every moment of this three-hour-plus movie with the transcendent vitality and intelligence of a great Victorian novel.”
– Michael Sragow, The New Yorker