Red Beard (Akahige). Akira Kurosawa, 1965.
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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #159, released 2002. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 185 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Red Beard is a fitting sayōnara to a successful run of Hollywood-style Kurosawa films starring Toshirô Mifune. In a large supporting role rather than starring as the lead, Mifune masterfully portrays a 2010 Robert De Nero portraying a mid-1960s Mifune who plays a young doctor of the late Tokugawa shogunate.