Newly qualified Dr Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is sent to a hospital for the poor, which is managed by the domineering Dr Niide, aka Red Beard (Toshiro Mifune). Yasumoto, who is in line to become the ...

Red Beard (1965) — a sadly overlooked and underrated film — is of great historical note in the career of Akira Kurosawa. It would be his last collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune ...

Steven Okazaki’s new documentary pays tribute to Japanese matinee idol Toshiro Mifune, whose iconic performances ... High and Low, and Red Beard—resulted in some of the medium’s greatest ...

Mifune ate raw 16 Kurosawa epics, the last, 1965's benevolent Red Beard, reversing lead duties with the first. Rather than Beard's barely bound physician, Mifune's rabid yakuza here goes mushroom ...

AKIRA Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune were arguably the greatest ... and with the seemingly interminable and arduous shooting of “Red Beard” (1965), in which he played an aristocratic 19th century ...

The mutual attraction between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune was, however ... his association with the director after 1965's "Red Beard." Why so mutually profitable an association came to ...

Red Beard isn’t often listed among Kurosawa ... under the supervision of a rigid but righteous older doctor (Toshiro Mifune). Under the strict tutelage of this older authority figure, the ...

In his defining moments on screen, Toshiro Mifune was glowering and silent, as if careful not to let slip a hint of his next move. To judge by Mifune: The Last Samurai, he was much the same off ...

If you miss that medicine, you need a dose of director Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard, a three-hour ... He bristles at his seemingly brusque superior (Toshiro Mifune), whose nickname gives the ...