Red Beard (1965)
With Toshirō Mifune, Kinuyo Tanaka, Chishū Ryū, Yūzō Kayama, Bokuzen Hidari, Noriko Honma, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kyōko Kagawa
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Red Beard (Japanese: 赤ひげ, Hepburn: Akahige) is a 1965 Japanese period drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, in his last collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune. Based on Shūgorō Yamamoto's 1959 short story collection, Akahige Shinryōtan, the film takes place in Koishikawa, a district of Edo, towards the end of the Tokugawa period (i.e. early or mid-19th century), and is about the relationship between a town doctor and his new trainee. Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Humiliated and Insulted provided the source for a subplot about a young girl, Otoyo (Terumi Niki), who is rescued from a brothel.
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