Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 185 min
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- uniform
- career
- small town
- japan
- brothel
- heal
- lunatic asylum
- rural area
- clinic
- doctor
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Toshirō Mifune
Dr. Kyojio Niide ("Red Beard")
Yūzō Kayama
Dr. Noboru Yasumoto
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Sahachi
Reiko Dan
Osugi
- Miyuki Kuwano — Onaka
- Kyōko Kagawa — Madwoman ("The Mantis")
- Tatsuyoshi Ehara — Genzô Tsugawa
- Terumi Niki — Otoyo
- Akemi Negishi — Okuni
- Yoshitaka Zushi — Chobo
- Yoshio Tsuchiya — Dr. Handayû Mori
- Eijirō Tōno — Goheiji
- Takashi Shimura — Tokubei Izumiya
- Chishū Ryū — Mr. Yasumoto
- Haruko Sugimura — Kin, the madam
- Directed
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written
- Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa, Masato Ide, Ryuzo Kikushima
Production
- Studio
- TOHO, Kurosawa Production
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
