Red Beard

8.1

Japan

Drama

185 min

1965

Toshirō Mifune Kamatari Fujiwara Yōko Fujiyama Yōko Naitō Akiko Nomura Kin Sugai Michiko Araki Bokuzen Hidari Atsushi Watanabe Yutaka Sada Ikio Sawamura Noriko Honma Akiko Kazami Keiko Tomita Shōichi Hirose Masanobu Ōkubo Fujio Tokita Hiroshi Tanaka Nobuo Chiba Kō Nishimura Yūzō Kayama Tsutomu Yamazaki Reiko Dan Miyuki Kuwano Kyōko Kagawa Tatsuyoshi Ehara Terumi Niki Akemi Negishi Yoshitaka Zushi Yoshio Tsuchiya Eijirō Tōno Takashi Shimura Chishū Ryū Haruko Sugimura Kinuyo Tanaka Eijirō Yanagi Kōji Mitsui Kanzō Uni

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 prostitute rescued from a local brothel.