Red beard

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Movie
German title Red beard
Original title Akahige ( 赤 ひ げ )
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1965
length 185 minutes
Rod
Director Akira Kurosawa
script Ryuzo Kikushima
Akira Kurosawa
Hideo Oguni
Masato Ide
production Ryuzo Kikushima
Tomoyuki Tanaka
music Masaru Satō
camera Asakazu Nakai
Takao Saitō
occupation

Rotbart ( Japanese 赤 ひ げ , Akahige ) is a 1965 film by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa .

Rotbart is the film adaptation of a story by Shūgorō Yamamoto . Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Humiliated and Offended provided the idea for the plot of a young girl who is rescued from a brothel. Kurosawa also gets ideas from Dostoyevsky for another film, Hakuchi (from: The Idiot ). “Rotbart” illuminates the problem of social injustice and examines two of Kurosawa's favorite topics: existential humanism and existentialism (see also: Ikiru , Dersu Uzala ).

Rotbart is 185 minutes long and was recorded with an aspect ratio of 2.35: 1 and for the first time with magnetic 4-track stereo sound. It is Kurosawa's last film in which Toshirō Mifune appears. It is also Kurosawa's last black and white film.

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The film is set in Edo (today's Tokyo) in the 19th century. Dr. Noboru Yasumoto ( 保 本 登 ) was transferred to a rural hospital to complete his postgraduate medical training under the direction of Dr. Kyojō Niide ( 新 出 去 定 ), Akahige , to complete. Yasumoto, who was trained at Dutch medical schools to become the personal physician of the Japanese Shogun , is outraged by this transfer - what does he get from Akahige ?

The protagonist, Dr. Yasumoto is an arrogant young doctor who is preparing to become the Shogun's personal doctor. Dr. Niide appears as a tyrannical ruler, but is in reality a compassionate hospital director. Dr. Yasumoto feels that Dr. Niide is only interested in his medical records and soon rebels against the clinic director. At first he refuses to wear his uniform, disdains the food and the spartan surroundings and enters the forbidden garden, in which he says "The praying mantis", a mysterious patient that only Dr. Niide can handle hits.

Through his observation of Dr. Dr. Yasumoto, What It Really Means to be a Doctor: Patients' lives are more important than wealth and status. Your suffering can be lessened through his compassion and care.

Others

  • Filming took two years.
  • The attention to detail in the construction of the hospital went so far that, on instructions from Kurosawa, the exact type of aged wood that would have been used in the region and at the time the film was set was used.
  • According to Stephen Prince's DVD commentary, it is the only Kurosawa film to feature nudity.

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