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Akahige

1965 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama

Akahige

1965 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama

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73% TOMATOMETER · 15 reviews

94% AUDIENCE · 5K ratings

8.3/10 · 23.9K

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Plot summary

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

Top cast

Yoshitaka Zushi as Chôji

Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Genzô Tsugawa

Yôko Naitô as Masae

Michiko Araki as Brothel owner

Tech specs

720p.BLU 1080p.BLU

1.57 GB

1280*502

Japanese 2.0

Not Rated

Subtitles

23.976 fps

3 hr 5 min

Seeds 5

2.86 GB

1920*752

Japanese 2.0

Not Rated

Subtitles

23.976 fps

3 hr 5 min

Seeds 37

Comments 9

GHAZWAN1982 1153 days ago

Thanks Freeman

tobitox 2143 days ago

you americans are f*cking stupid. stop blaming freeman, he has done an excellent job. you can search subtitles in other websites, you are really d+mb

morning_glow 2368 days ago

@egyhex strange rating system. people use out of 10 or out of 5, but you've done out of 7???

analferd 2597 days ago

guys, search the subtitles by yourself!!! Thanks FREEMAN

egyhex 2597 days ago

a classic 5 out of 7

benebrux 2597 days ago

Now the good news: It's 3 hours long

yuyuhakusho 2598 days ago

The film that broke the glorious Mifune-Kurosawa team.

vanderpussy 2598 days ago

Kurosawa, Resnais, Hitchcock, Polanski.... You are killing it this week ? keep em coming guys

kamikatz 2598 days ago

In 19th century Japan, a rough tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern . . .

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IMDb reviews

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7 / 10

One of Akira Kurosawa’s most underappreciated movies. A

Liam D

One of Akira Kurosawa’s most underappreciated movies. A slow burn character study Samurai film with solid direction and great acting

10 / 10

What a beautiful film! Long, even very long

Hector I

What a beautiful film! Long, even very long, it's the story of a young middle-class doctor in shogun Japan. He thinks he's arriving at a prestigious post, but…

7 / 10

Red Beard marks the last of the collaborations

William L

Red Beard marks the last of the collaborations between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, a long and fruitful partnership that resulted in 16 films (including…

Red Beard marks the last of the collaborations between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, a long and fruitful partnership that resulted in 16 films (including several internationally regarded masterpieces) but which was ultimately undone by Kurosawa's own auteurship; two year filming schedules are understandably difficult to stomach for in-demand acting talent. While often hailed as one of the director's many great films, Red Beard has been more polarizing than some of the director's output that is more commonly watched in the modern day, derided by some as more akin to a soap opera than many of his darker, similarly philosophical pieces. The film deals with humanism and inner conflict, as a young, proud doctor with ambition (Yūzō Kayama's Dr. Noboru Yasumoto) comes to understand the value of caring for others under the strict, gruff, yet ultimately tender and sincere tutelage of Mifune's Dr. Kyojō Niide (Red Beard); in reality, Red Beard's practices are also intended to rectify the young doctor's own mental ills (having been betrayed by those he trusted) through the good he does for his patients. Along the way, there are a series of subplots that uniformly feature a series of characters bearing tragic backstories brought to light as a result of a medical emergency, or often their own final moments. It's got the traditional sweeping nature that you'd expect of the material and the director, with misfortune ultimately transitioning to more uplifting aspects of human nature, but in many cases it all just seems too convenient or dramatic. Where Red Beard begins to lose you is the sheer number and variety of melancholic stories that it attempts to cram into its three hour runtime. Noboru's training begins with the responsibility of attending a dying man's bedside, as his academic training meets a more tangible, upsetting reality. It's genuine, understandable, and believable, yet powerful and uncomfortable - a baptism by fire into the medical profession and the methods that Red Beard uses. But then the other subplots feel the need for a sense of one-upsmanship that they never shake. All of a sudden every patient in the medical clinic has some form of long-winded backstory that conveniently reinforces a tenant of humanism, to the point where the sum total seems often excessively dramatic to the point of being tiresome (with a rather predictable outcome in visible changes to Noboru's character). At the same time, you've got Kurosawa's meiculous scene direction, framing, and camerawork; he's clearly putting his exceptional skill to use. Many consider this film to be among the director's finest work, but to me its technical proficiency doesn't totally make up for narrative excess and overt thematic design. One thing that stands out in Red Beard in particular is the contrast between the exceptional quality of the cinematography and the basic transitional design; late in the film you're treated to a shot of grief-stricken characters shouting down into a well as the camera pans from looking up at them from within the well down the side of the shaft before settling on their reflections in the water, all without the camera being seen (which was all practical effects). But simultaneously, the transitions between scenes are often abrubt wipes that seem much less stylistic. It's not unique to Red Beard (you can see it in several of Kurosawa's works), but is particularly prevalent here. (3.5/5)

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