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Red Beard

Red Beard
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Format: DVD
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Screen: Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
Languages: Japanese
Subtitles: English
No. of Disks: 1
Region: Region 2
Release Date: 06 October 2003
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Red Beard, the last and most ambitious of Kurosawa's collaborations with Toshiro Mifune, marks the end of one of the most remarkable actor-director relationships in the history of cinema.
Toshiro Mifune plays a commanding but humane doctor in a rural clinic in late 19th-century Japan. An idle and socially ambitious intern (yuzo Kayama) arrives at the clinic and discovers the meaning of responsibility, first to oneself and then to others.
This intimate epic - and offbeat social drama - boldly mixes the styles of soap opera and the action movie, and rewards the viewer with a detailed reconstruction of a feudal era, a warmly humanitarian message and a powerhouse performance by Mifune.

Special Features

  • Introduction by Alex Cox, Biographies of Kurosawa and Mifune, Original Poster an