Overview
Plot
Noboru Yasumoto hopes for an easy post as a wealthy family's physician, but his first job after medical school is a small country clinic under the gruff Dr. Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels, yet Red Beard patiently teaches him the unglamorous side of medicine.
- Directors
- Akira Kurosawa
- Cast
- Toshirō Mifune, 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, Kō Nishimura, Nobuo Chiba
- Country
- Japan
- Genre
- Drama
- Release date
- 1965-03-04
- Studios
- TOHO, Kurosawa Production
Plot
Warning: spoilers
Red Beard Plot and Cast
After medical school, Noboru Yasumoto expects a comfortable position as personal physician to a wealthy family, so he is disappointed to be assigned to a small rural clinic led by the gruff Dr. Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in various ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher, gradually showing his student the less glamorous realities of the profession and eventually assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
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