Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
TOHO, Kurosawa Production
Red Beard
What is the key to life - power, prestige or peace?
Genre:
Drama
Runtime:
185
Released:
1965
Rating:
8.117
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Shūgorō Yamamoto, Ryūzō Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide
FILM OVERVIEW
Red Beard
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.
DIRECTOR
Akira Kurosawa
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Ryūzō Kikushima (Producer)
Tomoyuki Tanaka (Producer)
Akira Kurosawa (Director)
Yoshirō Muraki (Production Design)
Yoshiko Samejima (Costume Design)
Kenjirô Ohmori (Assistant Director)
Shirō Moritani (Assistant Director)
Yōichi Matsue (Assistant Director)
Reiko Kaneko (Assistant Editor)
Masanobu Deme (Assistant Director)
CAST MEMBERS
Toshirō Mifune
Yūzō Kayama
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Reiko Dan
Miyuki Kuwano
Kyōko Kagawa
Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Terumi Niki
Akemi Negishi
Yoshitaka Zushi
MORE PRODUCTION
Hiromitsu Mori (Lighting Technician), Hisashi Shimonaga (Sound mixer), Shin Watarai (Sound Recordist), Teruyo Nogami (Script Supervisor), Masaru Satō (Original Music Composer), Asakazu Nakai (Director of Photography), Takao Saitō (Director of Photography), Akio Nojima (Property Master), Shūgorō Yamamoto (Novel), Ryūzō Kikushima (Screenplay), Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay), Hideo Oguni (Screenplay), Masato Ide (Screenplay), Akira Kurosawa (Editor), Ichirô Minawa (Sound Effects Editor)
MORE CAST
Yoshio Tsuchiya, Eijirō Tōno, Takashi Shimura, Chishū Ryū, Haruko Sugimura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eijirō Yanagi, Kōji Mitsui, Kō Nishimura, Nobuo Chiba, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ken Mitsuda, Yōko Fujiyama, Yōko Naitō, Reiko Nanao, Imari Tsuji, Akiko Nomura, Sue Mitobe, Kin Sugai, Michiko Araki, Bokuzen Hidari, Atsushi Watanabe, Yasuzō Ogawa, Yutaka Sada, Ikio Sawamura, Noriko Honma, Miyoko Nakamura, Akiko Kazami, Chisato Aoki, Kyoko Kurisu, Yukiko Yanagishita, Toshiko Fukai, Keiko Tomita, Shōji Ōki, Shōichi Hirose, Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi, Masanobu Ōkubo, Fujio Tokita, Yasuo Araki, Hiroshi Tanaka, Shin Ibuki, Kanzō Uni, Hiroto Kimura, Shu Komoro, Ryū Kuze, Susumu Ishikawa
